The holidays can be especially challenging for youth in foster care. You can join us and help foster the holidays by supporting holiday shopping, donating items from our wishlist and spreading the word to your friends and family.

Join Project Lemonade! Lead volunteer programs, fundraise, and create inspiring content.

We are thrilled to invite you to, A Night of Inspiration, on September 12th, 2024. Emcee’s Tra’Renee Chambers and Sage Dupre will be coming back to the Project Lemonade stage.

Speaker, Author and Former Foster Youth, Bonnie Milletto will stand alongside youth in our community.

Plus, incredible entertainment from Saeeda Wright and her band.

We hope to see you there!

Help us stock our store to celebrate Black youth this summer. Purchase from our Amazon wishlist.

Join us for engaging events around the city Foster Care Awareness Month

It was a hope-filled end to 2023.

Thank you to the 500 youth who visited Project Lemonade. And the 175 donors, 6 interns and 150 volunteers who made it possible!

The holidays can be an especially challenging time for youth in foster care. Let’s #GiveHope for the holidays.

We’re excited for our annual fall event, A Night of Inspiration on Thursday, September 21st!

At Project Lemonade we know that youth in foster care can’t wait.

There are over 7,000 children in foster care in Oregon on any given day.

Foster Care Awareness Month invites all of us to #DareToCare in support of foster youth.

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The Fill the Gap Scholarship provides flexible funding to cover a student’s basic needs expenses, an area often overlooked by other funding sources.

Applications are now open, the deadline to apply is April 30th.

Apply here.

Foster youth, sign up to shop!

Read more about Project Lemonade’s impact and 2023 goals from Executive Director, Lindsay McDonnell.

Check out this short post by Lead Intern Dylan. Dylan shared, “In 2019 I started at Project Lemonade, at the time I was still very much new to Portland and even newer to the idea of a stable job. Project Lemonade not only showed me what a normal job could be but what I could be.”

We’re on a mission to fund 30+ WISHes this holiday season, including this one:

"I am on my high-school football team, and I need help paying for my football gear. This WISH would help me up my game."

View Holiday WISH Requests

One of Project Lemonade’s goals is to provide our services in a high-quality environment that inspires self-esteem and confidence in foster youth.

After many months of planning, we have completed a remodel of the Project Lemonade Store!

Donate today to help foster youth thrive! Throughout the month of May, in honor of National Foster Care Month, we will be raising funds and awareness to support foster youth. We have a goal to raise $50,000 this month to support our work. Donate, follow along on social media & be inspired!

Be a super hero and support our Superhero Shopping Event April 29th & 30th!

Project Lemonade is partnering with DHS to host a December Holiday Shop for foster youth! Learn more about donating a gift or hosting a collection drive!