Bird Alliance Of Oregon, Inc.

Bird Alliance Of Oregon, Inc., doing business as Audubon Society Of Portland, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that receives federal grants as a prime recipient to deliver bird-centered environmental education and wildlife care services. The organization does not hold federal contracts and operates entirely in the grant space, with all recent activity routed through the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10.

Bird Alliance serves as the primary educator and program partner for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bird by Bird Program, a migratory-bird and wetland-habitat education initiative implemented in elementary schools across the Portland Public School District since 2015. The organization has held this relationship continuously across multiple grant cycles. Under a current project grant awarded October 1, 2025 (ultimate completion June 15, 2028, valued at $27,968), Bird Alliance deploys trained educators to deliver five classroom visits and two field trips per academic year across four classes at Woodlawn Elementary and Chief Joseph Elementary during the 2025–2026, 2026–2027, and 2027–2028 school years. Curriculum covers bird anatomy and adaptations, raptors and their ecological role, food webs and ecosystem health, and incorporates hands-on materials including real bird specimens, feathers, and identification tools. A prior cooperative agreement with USFWS Region 1 (awarded January 12, 2024, completed December 31, 2025) funded the same program model at two Portland Public Schools. Bird Alliance also received a $3.55 million project grant from USFWS Region 1 under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) from July 2021 through December 2022 to operate its Wildlife Care Center in Portland, supporting treatment and recovery of injured or orphaned endangered and threatened species.

The organization recently subcontracted with Philanthropy Northwest on an EPA Region 10 Thriving Communities subaward (awarded November 5, 2025) focused on environmental justice and community-based climate resilience work in the local area. Of eleven awards in the source portfolio spanning 2010 to present, ten are prime grants (91%) and one is a grant sub-award (9%). Eight awards trace to USFWS Region 1, reflecting the Bird by Bird Program's tenure as the primary regional implementation partner. One award completes within the next twenty-four months, presenting a recompete opportunity in the environmental education grant space.