2021-2023 OCF in the News Archive
2023 News Archive
- Oregon Business (October 10, 2023): Empowering Communities Through Collective Real Estate Ownership
- OPB (October 10, 2023): Here are some solutions to homelessness in Oregon
- OPB (October 9, 2023): How homelessness in Oregon started, grew and became a statewide crisis
- OPB (October 9, 2023): Everyone Village in Eugene partners with community to provide temporary housing, jobs and other support
- Willamette Week (August 22, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation Invests $1 Million in Arts and Culture Projects
- The Skanner (August 15, 2023): New Ownership for Albina Arts Center
- Willamette Week (August 15, 2023): Albina Arts Center Announces New Ownership
- OPB (August 4, 2023): Community Partners Affordable Housing helps residents thrive
- Willamette Week (July 17, 2023): Project Turnkey Completes Second Round of Hotel Purchases
- KOIN (July 12, 2023): Family Promise's Project Turnkey is turning a Tigard hotel into a shelter
- OPB (June 15, 2023): At Great Circle Recovery, the doors are open to anyone seeking addiction treatment
- OPB (June 6, 2023): Community 101 program in Oregon teaches kids grant making
- KOBI-TV NBC5 (May 30, 2023): Project Turnkey 2.0 grants coming to southern Oregon organizations
- Oregon Capital Chronicle (May 30, 2023): Shelters for Klamath tribal elders, homeless rural residents funded by Oregon’s Project Turnkey
- Oregon Business (May 12, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation Seeks New Owner for Historic Albina Arts Center Building
- KPTV (May 9, 2023): The Albina Arts Center seeking new owner
- The Skanner (May 9, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation Seeks Next Owner for Albina Arts Center
- Statesman Journal (April 14, 2023): Photos: The ARCHES Lodge opens in former Salem Motel
- KATU (April 12, 2023): Project Turnkey opens site in Marion County to aid transitional housing/shelter
- OPB (March 27, 2023): Responding to Oregon youth mental health needs with evidence-based approach
- KGW-TV NBC (March 1, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation provides grants for 30 BIPOC organizations
- Oregon Business (February 22, 2023): Demand for Project Turnkey Sky-High, says OCF Senior Officer
- KOBI-TV NBC5 (February 9, 2023): Five on 5 - Lisa Mensah - CEO, Oregon Community Foundation
- Jefferson Public Radio (February 7, 2023): Oregon Community Foundation celebrates a half-century of getting and giving money
- News Radio 1240 KQEN (January 18, 2023): Inside Douglas Country 1.18.23
2022 News Archive
- December 29, 2022: PBJ List Review '22: Meet the region's top 5 grant-making foundations and 4 new female CEOs of color
- December 25, 2022: Oregon spent $75 million on hotels for homeless shelters. How are they doing?
- December 12, 2022: Alger Theater renovation receives $100K from Oregon Community Foundation
- December 7, 2022: Library looks back on year and forward to next
- December 7, 2022: $45,000 grant to Central Oregon literacy program for Latino families
- December 1, 2022: Illuminating Time with Horatio Law and Alex Chiu
- December 1, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation helps in closing the 'opportunity gap' granting $2M to 30 Oregon-based nonprofits
- November 11, 2022: Lisa Mensah Brings Philanthropy Home
- November 8, 2022: Foundation head: Housing crunch calls for collaboration
- October 25, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation head visits Jefferson County
- October 7, 2022: 'If it goes with you when you go, it's gone': Reclaiming and Sharing Language and Culture
- October 3, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation Regional Director Visits Lakeview
- August 11, 2022: 14 projects share $1 million in Creative Heights grants
- August 9, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation Issues $8.7 million in Community Grants to 371 Nonprofits, Prioritizing Historically Underserved Communities
- August 9, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation sends $8.7 million to 371 nonprofits
- July 5, 2022: Obama Nominee In As New Oregon Community Foundation CEO
- June 29, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation names new CEO
- May 15, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation invests 480-thousand dollars in Black Student Success Network
- May 12, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation Reinvests Nearly Half a Million to Help Further Positive Impact of Black Student Success Initiative
- May 7, 2022: Future School Lab founder, Sisters resident Vanessa Wilkins joins Oregon Community Foundation board
- April 12, 2022: New shelter will help victims of domestic violence, Archie Creek Fire refugees
- March 11, 2022: Project Turnkey Gains Steam, Creating Footprint of Safe Shelter for Displaced Oregonians Including Klamath Falls
- March 10, 2022: Cascade Seed Fund founders launch philanthropic effort to support C.O. innovation
- March 8, 2022: News Radio 1240 KQEN takes a look at the impact of Oregon Community Foundation in Douglas County
- February 9, 2022: $500k in grants coming to Rogue Valley organizations post-Almeda Fire
- February 9, 2022: Oregon Community Foundation distributes nearly $1.46 million in Red Cross relief for fire-hit communities
2021 News Archive
- December 25, 2021: Southern Oregon got a boost in homeless shelters in 2021
- December 16, 2021: Nonprofit infuses Oregon with pandemic relief funding for the arts
- December 15, 2021: 11 Mid-Valley groups receive grants that support historically underfunded communities
- December 8, 2021: Housing leaders celebrate new Salem shelter, call for more action on homelessness
- December 7, 2021: 'Less a hotel and more of a home': Shelter opens at former Super 8 motel in Salem
- December 2, 2021: Oregon’s Project Turnkey: Bold action and collaboration for housing solutions
- November 21, 2021: 6 entrepreneurial Lane County nonprofits receive $142K from Oregon Community Foundation
- November 19, 2021: Oregon Community Foundation deploys funds to underserved Oregon children
- November 18, 2021: Community Rebuilding Fund: Aids local organizations
- October 31, 2021: Transitional housing opens for wildfire survivors in Talent, Oregon
- October 7, 2021: Organizations in Malheur County use foundation grants to bolster summer programs
- September 17, 2021: Recovery Group Lands $256k In Grants To Rebuild Wildfire-Hit Communities
- September 15, 2021: McKenzie Fire and Rescue awarded $125,000 for emergency operations center
- August 21, 2021: Local broadcaster wins $100,000 Creative Heights grant
- August 19, 2021: Oregon Community Foundation Invests Nearly $1 Million in Oregon Arts Culture Projects
- August 16, 2021: OPB's Think Out Loud Talks with Max Williams, OCF’s President and CEO
- July 27, 2021: Plagued by crises, Oregon looks to motels as creative solution to sheltering the unhoused
- July 20, 2021: National Alliance to End Homelessness, Hotels to Housing Case Studies: Project Turnkey
- June 5, 2021: Oregon Community Foundation grants $70K to LGBTQ+ support organizations - kgw.com
- May 28, 2021: Motel to shelter housing insecure Gresham residents thanks to $7M grant - koin.com
- May 19, 2021: Project Turnkey grant of $4.9 million helps Center for Hope & Safety buy motel - Statesman Journal
- May 6, 2021: 70-bed addiction recovery housing to open in East Portland - oregonlive.com
- May 4, 2021: Oregon Community Foundation awards $2.2 Million to Centro Cultural to serve low-income Latino families and seasonal workers - The Skanner
- April 28, 2021: Foundation to grant $41 million in state funds for summer academic, enrichment programs - ktvz.com
- April 12, 2021: New shelter will help victims of domestic violence, Archie Creek Fire refugees - The News-Review
- March 11, 2021: Project Turnkey Gains Steam, Creating Footprint of Safe Shelter for Displaced Oregonians Including Klamath Falls - Klamath Basin News
- March 10, 2021: Cascade Seed Fund founders launch philanthropic effort to support C.O. innovation - kztv.com
- March 2, 2021: Study: For Every Dollar Contributed to Community Foundation DAFs in 2019, Donors Granted $1.08 in 2020 - Community Foundation Public Awareness Initiative
- Feb. 2, 2021: $4.2 million grant awarded to buy motel for displaced southern Oregonians - kobi5.com