The Blueprint Foundation

Mission

At the Blueprint Foundation, we empower youth and young adults to claim their own futures through culturally specific programming and mentoring. We guide individuals along diverse pathways and facilitate career exploration, ensuring that each person's journey is uniquely tailored to their cultural identity. Our mission is to foster confidence, resilience, and success, creating a community where every young mind can flourish and architect their own destiny

Bottom Line for Portland

At The Blueprint Foundation, we guide over 150 BIPOC youth and young adults annually in career exploration and environmental stewardship. Through culturally specific programming and mentoring, we empower them to plant and steward hundreds of trees, restore natural spaces, dive into regenerative agriculture and more,  further fostering a deep connection to their communities and the environment. Our work creates the blueprint for a sustainable future, where every young person can thrive and lead with confidence, resilience, and a commitment to positive change.

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"The Blueprint Foundation is a stunning organization successfully creating culturally inclusive, safe access and green education to our youth, opening their senses of possibility, exploration, and responsible reciprocity with our natural world. It has changed our lives. This program and the team create brilliant, innovative, truly special opportunities that cannot be taken for granted. This never existed when I was a kid, and we're honored every day to get to be part of it. They're shaping our future for good."--Brittany Wade, guardian of Blueprint student

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Blueprint programming is intended to engage BIPOC community members in nature-based activities that foster a realization that the environment is an extension of themselves – As much a part of their well-being as eating or breathing or meditating because it is. Reconnecting our people to the environment requires: (a) physically engaging them in culturally relevant activities that build neural associations with green spaces. (b) culturally responsive education about what they are seeing and experiencing, and (c) empowerment to take an active role in intersectional environmentalism. We partner with organizations that share our belief that access to culturally- nature-based activities and training fosters stewardship and conservation ethics in people.

Partner(s)

This year we are grateful for the support of our non-profit and business partners:

Business Partner
RL MORGEN: A culturally responsive travel and event planning business. 

Nonprofit Partners
Friends of Tryon Creek: A valued partner where we take our youth for exploratory learning and Indigenous-led programming. 

Depave: An Urban Shade Coalition partner, Depave empowers disenfranchised communities to overcome social and environmental injustices and adapt to climate change through urban re-greening. 

Friends of Trees: A partner in various aspects of our programming, Friends of Trees inspires people to improve the world by planting trees together. 

Thank you for amplifying our mission and supporting our work throughout this year's Give!Guide campaign!