TiE Oregon Foundation promotes entrepreneurial leadership skills and innovation among the next generation of community trailblazers through TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE), their program that inspires, challenges and empowers students to become the next generation of entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, and encourages higher education and careers in STEM fields.  

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Youth Progress provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed, engagement-based, and youth-centered programs and services. 

The Learning Center is Youth Progress' culturally-responsive, center-based therapeutic foster care program designed specifically to meet the academic, social & emotional, therapeutic, and recreational needs of students in foster care. 

Micro Enterprise Resources Initiatives and Training (MERIT) serves an emerging diverse business community in Oregon, providing expert entrepreneurial and financial management training and technical assistance, including family-oriented finance management, financial literacy, entrepreneurial skills, to build generational wealth and self-advocacy, fostering inclusiveness in building an environment of equitable prosperity.

The Rural Micro and Small Business Development Initiative (RSBDI) will provide access to capital and technical assistance by developing a clearinghouse that serves as the central access point for consumers interested in securing micro financing and small business contractor support for larger business strategies.

The PSU Foundation raises and manages philanthropic gifts in support of the mission and priorities of Portland State University. 

Personal technology, such as a reliable laptop and wi-fi access, is crucial to student success. The purchase of a new and functional laptop can be unreachable for some PSU students who must then use outdated or shared systems. Recipients of this scholarship will receive a quality laptop that is theirs to keep--even beyond their experience at PSU.