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OCF 2024 CREATIVE HEIGHTS AWARDS PRESS RELEASE
OCF 2024 CREATIVE HEIGHTS AWARDS VISUALS
- Black Cultural Initiative
- Bruce Burris
- Taravat Talepasand and Christopher Whyte
- Fuchsia Lin
- Quincy Davis
- Vaughn Kimmons
- Our Fire Collective
OCF 2024 CREATIVE HEIGHTS AWARD
EARL AND JANE FERGUSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND PRESS RELEASE
EARL AND JANE FERGUSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHOTOS
2024 TRACKING OREGON'S PROGRESS PRESS RELEASE
2024 TRACKING OREGON'S PROGRESS VISUAL ASSETS
2024 TRACKING OREGON'S PROGRESS REPORT
OCF SPRING 2024 COMMUNITY GRANTS PRESS RELEASE
OCF SPRING 2024 COMMUNITY GRANTS VISUALS
- Compass House
- Condon Arts Council 1
- Condon Arts Council 2
- Constructing Hope 1
- Constructing Hope 2
- Gold Beach Main Street
- Madras Community Food Pantry 1
- Madras Community Food Pantry 2
- Safe Shelter for Siuslaw Students
OCF SPRING 2024 COMMUNITY GRANTS RECIPIENTS LIST
OCF WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS PRESS RELEASE
OCF WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS PHOTOS
NEW BOARD MEMBER BIOS
LANDMARK INVESTMENT IN ARTS AND CULTURE INFRASTRUCTURE PRESS RELEASE
LANDMARK INVESTMENT IN ARTS AND CULTURE INFRASTRUCTURE QUOTES SHEET AND Q&A
LANDMARK INVESTMENT IN ARTS AND CULTURE PHOTOS
LISA MENSAH PRESS RELEASE
LISA MENSAH VISUAL
LISA MENSAH INTERVIEW
LISA MENSAH BIOGRAPHY
News Releases
- 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
- 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