2021-2025 OCF in the News Archive
2025 News Archive
- Baker City Herald (December 28, 2025): Year in Review: A selection of Baker County's biggest stories of 2025
- KATU (December 26, 2025): Oregon Community Foundation grants $5M to boost growth statewide
- Curry Coastal Pilot (December 19, 2025): Oregon Community Foundation Awards $5.1 Million in Grants to Support Education, Housing, Economic Opportunity, Arts and More
- The Coos Bay World (December 19, 2025): Oregon Nonprofits Strengthen Their Communities With Fall Funding From OCF
- KOBI (December 18, 2025): Two Rogue Valley nonprofits secure entrepreneurial grants
- East Oregonian (December 16, 2025): Grants boost 4 Eastern Oregon business programs
- 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
- Oregon Capital Chronicle (December 8, 2025): Some rural, low-income Oregon families struggle to access after-school amid funding uncertainty
- 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
2024 News Archive
- 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
2023 News Archive
- 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
- 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