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OCF 2025 BLACK STUDENT SUCCESS CAPACITY-BUILDING GRANTS PRESS RELEASE
OCF 2025 FALL COMMUNITY GRANTS RECIPIENT PHOTOS
OCF 2025 FALL COMMUNITY GRANTS PRESS RELEASE
OCF 2025 FALL COMMUNITY GRANTS RECIPIENT PHOTOS
- A Greater Applegate
- Calapooia Watershed Council
- Caring Connections photo by Council on Aging of Central Oregon
- Caring Connections photo by Corrina Ryan
- Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County
- Four Rivers Community Radio photo by Andi Walsh
- Lower Columbia Youth Association
- PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation
- Salem for Refugees
OCF 2025 SPRING COMMUNITY GRANTS LIST
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND DONORS COMMIT $1.9 MILLION TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT FEED HUNGRY OREGONIANS PRESS RELEASE
- November 19, 2025: Oregon Community Foundation and Donors Commit $1.9 Million to Organizations That Feed Hungry Oregonians
OCF ANNOUCES FOOD BANK GIVING VISUALS
- Clackamas Service Center 1
- Clackamas Service Center 2
- Clackamas Service Center 3
- Food for Lane County
- Josephine County Food Bank
- Marion Polk Food Share
OCF 2025 DISASTER READINESS AND RESPONSE GRANTS RELEASE
OCF 2025 DISASTER READINESS AND RESPONSE GRANTS RECIPIENT PHOTOS
- Firebrand Resiliency Collective
- Glide City Sign
- McKenzie River LTRG Clients Mary Ellen and Bob in front of their new home
- Provision boxes from Rogue Food Unites
OCF 2025 DISASTER READINESS AND RESPONSE GRANTS
OCF 2025 CREATIVE HEIGHTS GRANTS PRESS RELEASE
OCF 2025 CREATIVE HEIGHTS GRANTS VISUALS
- Albina Music Trust Board President Ken Berry at the console
- Albina Music Trust
- Ural Thomas and the Pain photo by Jason Hill
- enTaiko
- Valley of the Tall Grass, Masami Kawai
- Steph Littlebird 1
- Steph Littlebird 2
- Luke Wyland, photo by Mia Braverman
OCF 2025 CREATIVE HEIGHTS GRANTS LIST
REGIONAL EXPANSION DEEPENS COMMITMENT TO RURAL OREGON PRESS RELEASE
REGIONAL EXPANSION DEEPENS COMMITMENT TO RURAL OREGON VISUALS
OCF 2025 SPRING COMMUNITY GRANTS PRESS RELEASE
- May 19, 2025: Oregon Community Foundation Distributes Record Investments in 2024, Announces New Grant Opportunities For 2025
OCF 2025 SPRING COMMUNITY GRANTS RECIPIENT PHOTOS
- Addiction Recovery Center Inc.
- Bohio Cibanani
- Central Coast Food Web
- Freedom Farms 1
- Freedom Farms 2
- Ground Score Association
- Marshallese Women's Education and Health Network
- Sande School of Horsemanship 1
- Sande School of Horsemanship 2
- Southern Oregon Coast Pride
- Southern Oregon University Youth Programs - Konaway Nika Tillicum
- Star of Hope
- Wildflower Play Collective
OCF 2025 SPRING COMMUNITY GRANTS LIST
OCF WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS PRESS RELEASE
OCF WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS PHOTOS
NEW BOARD MEMBER BIOS
OCF OREGON ARTS AND CULTURE REBUILDING PROGRAM PRESS RELEASE
OCF OREGON ARTS AND CULTURE REBUILDING PROGRAM VISUALS
- Gallery Theater
- Gallery Theater 2
- Museum at Warm Spring 1
- Museum at Warm Springs 2
- Museum at Warm Springs 3
- Oregon Ballet Theatre
OCF OREGON ARTS AND CULTURE REBUILDING PROGRAM GRANT RECIPIENTS LIST
LISA MENSAH PRESS RELEASE
LISA MENSAH VISUAL
LISA MENSAH INTERVIEW
LISA MENSAH BIOGRAPHY
News Releases
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December 10, 2025: Black-Led Nonprofits Expand Opportunities for Black Students
- December 8, 2025: Oregon Nonprofits Strengthen Their Communities With Fall Funding from OCF
- November 19, 2025: Oregon Community Foundation and Donors Commit $1.9 Million to Organizations That Feed Hungry Oregonians
- September 8, 2025: Oregon Community Foundation Invests $120,000 in Disaster Readiness and Response
- August 25 2025: Oregon Community Foundation Invests $1 Million in Bold Arts and Culture Projects
- July 21, 2025: Klamath County Students Awarded Ferguson Scholarships
- July 17, 2025: In a Divided Time, Oregon’s Land Trusts Conserve Common Ground
- July 7, 2025: Black Education Elders Honored for their Legacies Supporting Students
- May 19, 2025: Oregon Community Foundation Distributes Record Investments in 2024, Announces New Grant Opportunities For 2025
- May 12, 2025: Oregon Community Foundation Welcomes Leaders in Iconic Businesses, Conservation, Law, Rural Health Care to Board
- May 6, 2025: Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Reaches Statewide Milestone in Oregon
- May 6, 2025: Four Oregon Artists to Receive $150,000 Each Over Two Years
- April 21, 2025: Landmark Funding Infuses $21 Million In Oregon Arts And Culture
- December 18, 2024: Latino/x Serving Oregon Nonprofits Strengthened by $1.2M Investment, a Record Infusion by Statewide Community Foundation
- December 9, 2024: Oregon Small Business Innovations Receive $907,500 Investment
- December 3, 2024: Oregon Community Foundation Distributes Record Investments in 2024, Announces New Grant Opportunities For 2025
- October 7, 2024: Oregon Community Foundation Names Former Sports Executive as Chief People Officer
- September 10, 2024: Fairview Trust Makes Biggest Investment to Date: Community Fund Infuses Major Grants in Projects that Serve People Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- August 27, 2024: Oregon Community Foundation Invests $1 Million in Thought-Provoking Arts and Culture Projects Through 2024 Creative Heights Initiative
- July 29, 2024: Ten Klamath Students Awarded $1,000 Each in Scholarships by Earl and Jane Ferguson Scholarship Fund
- May 30, 2024: Tracking Oregon’s Progress Report Gives Context for Challenges, Opportunities Facing Oregonians
- May 20, 2024: Community Grants Strengthen Local Solutions, Opportunities with Flexible Operations Funding
- May 13, 2024: Oregon Community Foundation Welcomes Leaders in Healthcare and Housing to Board of Directors
- March 20, 2024: Landmark Investment in Arts And Culture Infrastructure
- March 15, 2024: Former Journalist, Nonprofit Leader Named Director of Communications at Oregon Community Foundation
- January 8, 2024: 2024–26 Fields Artist Fellows Announced: Four Oregon artists will receive $150,000 each over two years to develop their careers and engage their communities
- November 30, 2023: Oregon Community Foundation Funds 24 Oregon Nonprofits to Help Local Entrepreneurs
- November 15, 2023: Oregon Community Foundation Awards $4.7 Million Investment in 203 Oregon Nonprofits
2021-2023 OCF News Release Archive
OCF in the News
- The News Review (December 12, 2025): OCF awards over $200,000 to local organizations
- Lookout Eugene-Springfield (December 11, 2025): $395,000 in grants awarded to organizations that aid Lane County
- KTVZ (December 11, 2025): Black-led nonprofits across Oregon receive $720,000 in grants, thanks to Oregon Community Foundation
- Oregon ArtsWatch (December 9, 2025): ArtsWatch Insider: Big news! A major grant boosts critical coverage areas
- KWSO Warm Springs Radio (November 24, 2025): 2024-2026 Oregon Community Foundation Fields Fellows
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy (November 24, 2025): In Uncertain Times, Annuities Can Hook Donors: Here’s How They Work
- KXL (November 20, 2025): Oregon Community Foundation Financially Supports Food Banks
- KOBI (November 10, 2025): Food bank leaders meet to discuss hunger relief
- KLCC (October 30, 2025): Filling the void: Oregon Community Foundation stepping in where needed
- Oregon Business (October 8, 2025): Revitalization, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: The Power of a Public Market
- Jefferson Public Radio (October 1, 2025): Oregon Community Foundation is one of the nation's largest with a priority lens on Oregonians
- KGW (September 16, 2025): Albina Music Trust receives funding to document Portland’s Black music scene
- KOBI (September 15, 2025): New skate park opens in Lakeview
- Oregon Artswatch (September 15, 2025): Portland artist Licity Collins wins $74,000 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights grant for her opera about grief
- Jefferson Public Radio (September 9, 2025): OCF invests in Rogue Valley disaster preparedness
- KGW (September 5, 2025): Speakers at Women's Leadership Summit inspire others to live purposefully
- Central Oregon Daily News (September 3, 2025): Heart of Oregon Corps announces groundbreaking, $100,000 gift from Oregon Community Foundation
- East Oregonian (August 25, 2025): Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland receives $100K grant
- Willamette Week (August 25, 2025): Oregon Community Foundation Announces $1 Million in Arts and Culture Grants
- Oregon Artswatch (August 25, 2025): Oregon artists and cultural groups share $1 million-plus in new Creative Heights grants
- OPB (July 31, 2025): Portland public art helps connect communities
- The Oregonian (July 21, 2025): Portland math educator honored for 40-year career championing Black students
- The Skanner (July 7, 2025): Black Education Elders Honored for Their Legacies Supporting Students
- Willamette Week (July 1, 2025): Puppeteers for Fears’ “Robopocalypse: The Musical!” Is Not Your Kid’s Puppet Rock Opera
- Baker City Herald (June 16, 2025): Oregon Community Foundation to open office in Baker City
- Fast Company (June 18, 2025): This former motel in Oregon could be the solution to the student housing crisis
- The News-Review (June 12, 2025): Panel discusses thriving in rural communities
- KQEN News Radio (June 10, 2025): Inside Douglas County 6.10.25 with Lisa Mensah
- Elkhorn Media Group (May 20, 2025): Vale Food Pantry and Giggles & Grace ELC receive $15K each
- MyCentralOregon (May 20, 2025): OCF Distributes $382,360 To Local Nonprofits
- KOBI (May 19, 2025): Southern Oregon nonprofits receive major funding boost from OCF
- East Oregonian (May 14, 2025): Pendleton's Chuck Sams joins Oregon Community Foundation board
- KATU (May 6, 2025): Imagination Library reaches every Oregon county, expanding children's access to books
- KOBI (April 30, 2025): Five on 5 - Lisa Mensah, Oregon Community Foundation
- KOBI (April 28, 2025): SOU hosts celebration of life to honor community leader Bill Thorndike
- Oregon Artswatch (April 21, 2025): In a time of need, Oregon Community Foundation’s $21 million gift to Oregon arts
- Portland Business Journal (April 18, 2025): A big arts funder on the state of the sector and how a $52M 'love letter' is working
- Discover Our Coast (April 16, 2025): Foundation boosts Clatsop arts with grant
- KPIC (April 14, 2025): Douglas ESD uses grant to boost advanced mental health services for students
- Discover Our Coast (April 13, 2025): The Liberty Theatre at 100
- Oregon ArtsWatch (March 21, 2025): Former Major League Baseball player Dave Baldwin of Yachats has gone from pitching to poetry, and now, big bold paintings
- Street Roots (March 5, 2025): The Portland Mercado anticipates rebuild
- OPB, Think Out Loud (March 4, 2025): Oregon’s bipartisan arts caucus wants structural changes and more money for public art
- KATU (February 26, 2025): Scholarship honors Oregon's first African American woman senator
- Oregon ArtsWatch (February 16, 2025): Oregon Legislature’s Arts Caucus rolls out its five-bill agenda for the current session
- KGW (February 11, 2025): Sunnyside Shower Project gets $40K grant to support homeless access to showers
- The Astorian (January 15, 2025): Breathing New Life into Oregon’s Grand Old Theaters—and Their Communities
- The Astorian (January 10, 2025): Latino Partnership Program extends to the coast
- The Coos Bay World (January 8, 2025): Gold Beach Aquatic Safety Program receives grants, seeks expansion into Coos County
- North Coast Citizen (January 1, 2025): Ocean Giving campaign nets nearly $2 million
- Rogue Valley Times (January 1, 2025): From Shoe Drive to Lifeline: Teresa McCormick Center Meets Southern Oregon’s Needs
- Columbia Gorge News (December 30, 2024): HR nonprofit receive grants
- The Canyon Weekly (December 20, 2024): Hospital receives grant to open SIT operation in Jefferson
- KOBI (December 20, 2024): Spirit of Community: Historic Local Theaters
- Portland Business Journal (December, 19, 2024): Portland Business Journal reveals 2025 Women of Influence honorees
- The Outlook (December 18, 2024): Five East County nonprofits serving Latino community get funding boost
- Salem Reporter (December 17, 2024): Paradise of Samoa dance troupe raises cultural awareness, teaches confidence
- The Astorian (December 11, 2024): Oregon Grantmaking Students Rank Mental Health as Top Concern
- The Cottage Grove Sentinel (December 9, 2024): Oregon Community Foundation awards Cottage Grove $45,000
- Elkhorn Media Group (December 9, 2024): Oregon Small Business Innovations Receive $907,500 Investment
- KOBI (December 6, 2024): Spirit of Community: Small Town, Big Heart
- The Newberg Graphic (December 4, 2024): Love INC, Northside Community Church net grants from Oregon Community Foundation
- East Oregonian (December 4, 2024): Eastern Oregon nonprofits receive $322,617 funding boost
- The Bulletin (December 4, 2024): Central Oregon organizations receive nearly $400,000 from Oregon Community Foundation
- Philanthropy News Digest (December 2, 2024): Southern Oregon nonprofits receive $545,000 funding boost
- KOBI (November 22, 2024): Spirit of Community: KCC Childcare Learning Center
- East Oregonian (November 19, 2024): Interview with OCF President and CEO Lisa Mensah
- KATU (November 14, 2024): Nearly 2,800 housed as Oregon's Project Turnkey turns motels into shelters
- The Oregonian (November 12, 2024): Arts groups receive half a million in grants, including $100,000 to Oregon Children’s Theatre
- KOBI (November 8, 2024): Spirit of Community: Living Opportunities
- Tillamook Count Pioneer (November 7, 2024): Nehalem Bay Health District Receives Generous Gift from Jeffrey C. Kozlowski Fund, Oregon Community Foundation
- Willamette Week (November 5, 2024): Portland Rapper Talilo Goes Toe to Toe With Tech N9ne on New Single
- KOBI (October 25, 2024): Spirit of Community: OCF: Strengthening Communities in Southern Oregon
- East Oregonian (October 23, 2024): ‘Haunt Camp’ Turns Halloween into Artistic Adventure for Teens
- KOBI (October 22, 2024): Five on 5 – Lisa Mensah – CEO/Pres., OR Community Foundation
- The Coos Bay World (October 18, 2024): Oregon Community Foundation names former sports executive as Chief People Officer
- Oregon Business (October 16, 2024): Community Rebuilding Fund: A Legacy of Resilience in Rural Oregon
- KOBI (October 15, 2024): Oregon Community Foundation visits Kids Unlimited
- KOBI (October 11, 2024): Spirit of Community: Rogue Food Unites
- East Oregonian (October 9, 2024): Accessible Housing Investments Create Opportunities for Independent Living
- KMTR Eugene Oregon (October 3, 2024): FOOD For Lane County purchases new property for Youth Farm relocation
- Port of Portland (October 3, 2024): Port of Portland creates fund to support workforce training, small business growth and job creation
- KOBI (September 27, 2024): Spirit of Community: SOU Music Scholarships
- Central Oregon Daily (September 24, 2024): Madras High School Native American athletes receive $10 food stipend for away games
- East Oregonian (September 18, 2024): No-Stoplight Town’s General Store “Pulls People Together” with Art and Music
- KOBI (September 13, 2024): Spirit of Community: New Spirit Village
- East Oregonian (September 4, 2024): Northeast Oregon Trail Links Communities, Builds Social Bonds
- The Newberg Graphic (August 30, 2024): Newberg musician and cohort net $100K grant to stage multi-cultural women’s rights performance
- KOBI (August 30, 2024): Spirit of Community: One Gift, Two Transformations in Josephine County
- East Oregonian (August 21, 2024): When Childrens’ Theater is More Than a Play
- KOBI (August 16, 2024): Spirit of Community: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- KTVZ (August 15, 2024): Governor Kotek convenes Summer and After School Learning Summit in Eugene
- Jefferson Public Radio (July 31, 2024): Report shows how private donations helped communities rebound from 2020 fires
- KPTV (July 28, 2024): AT&T, Blazers, Human-I-T donate 200 laptops, backpacks of supplies to Oregon kids in need
- KOBI (July 26, 2024): Spirit of Community: Rios to Rivers
- The Bulletin (July 24, 2024): Oregon Foundations Better Prepared to Respond to Wildfires
- The Bulletin (July 10, 2024): Ecksteins deal with tragedy by helping others
- KOBI (July 5, 2024): Spirit of Community: Friends of the Children - Klamath Basin
- Philanthropy News Digest (June 30, 2024): Fire Lessons Live On in Rural Oregon
- Business Oregon (June 21, 2024): Artistic Freedom Enhances Quality of Life
- KOBI (June 21, 2024): Spirit of Community: Talent Maker City Update
- Portland Tribune (June 12, 2024): Bonamici bill would take Project Turnkey national
- KOBI (June 7, 2024): Spirit of Community: Lomakatsi Restoration Project
- My Central Oregon (June 7: 2024): Challenges, Opportunities For Oregonians
- The Jefferson Exchange (June 4, 2024): Life in grant-land: Oregon Community Foundation announces Spring cash awards
- Portland Business Journal (May 21, 2024): Oregon Community Foundation, Murdock Charitable Trust reveal combined $10M in grants
- KPTV (May 20, 2024): Oregon Community Foundation awards $5.26 million in small but vital operating grants to 281 nonprofits across the state
- The Skanner (May 14, 2024): Oregon Community Foundation Welcomes New Board Members
- KOBI (April 11, 2024): Five on 5 – Lisa Mensah – Pres./CEO, Oregon Community Foundation
- Oregon ArtsWatch (March 20, 2024): Oregon cultural groups get a $51.8 million ‘love letter’
- KPTV (March 20, 2024): $50M from private, state funds will go to Oregon arts groups, leaders announce
- Redmond Spokesman (March 14, 2024): John Hodecker, philanthropist and inheritor of Redmond potato empire, dies at 90
- Tillamook County Pioneer (February 16, 2024): Heart of Cartm (Community Action Recycling Team of Manzanita) Receives $25,000 Donation from the BottleDrop Fund Donation will support community recycling for Tillamook County residents
- Lake County Examiner (February 12, 2024): Rural Oregon filmmaker presents documentary at Alger Saturday
- OPB (February 5, 2024): Warm Springs tribal member wins coveted arts fellowship
- OPB (February 1, 2024): How to solve Oregon's child care crunch
- ABC News (January 30, 2024): How one state is tackling homelessness by turning abandoned buildings into shelters
- Argus Observer (January 16, 2024): Eddie Melendrez named as 1 of 4 Fields Artist Fellows for 2024-26
- KOBI (January 12, 2024): Ashland resident receives Fields Artist Fellowship
- OPB (December 29, 2023): Parents and providers highlight successes of Preschool for All
- KTVZ (December 7, 2023): Bend Realtors, restaurants and partners raising money for Jake & Josh Eckstein Memorial Trade Scholarship Fund
- Oregon Business (December 5, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation Awards $520K To Historically Overlooked Entrepreneurs
- Here is Oregon (November 21, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation awards $4.7 million investment in 203 Oregon nonprofits