Multiply Your Impact with Pooled Funds

Oregon Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund

This fund provides quick and responsive resources for communities recovering from wildfires, floods, ice storms, possible earthquakes and other catastrophes. OCF and other funders have learned when it comes to disasters, it’s not a matter of if but when. OCF is ready to stand with local communities. Anyone can make a gift to this fund online. DONATE.

Oregon Community Recovery Fund

Oregon’s nonprofits exemplify the hope, strength and opportunities that can make our state not just survive but thrive. This fund provides flexible grants for nonprofits addressing the most pressing needs across Oregon in partnership with the local voices of people who know these communities best. DONATE.

OCF Leadership Fund

This fund strengthens OCF itself through investments in grantmaking, research, volunteer opportunities and community engagement. OCF staff of experts stay in close contact with our nonprofit partners and the communities they serve to continuously build a system of thoughtful grantmaking. DONATE

Oregon Fund

This fund keeps OCF’s grant making and community engagement flexible and responsive for fast-evolving opportunities and emerging challenges. DONATE

Oregon Arts and Culture Recovery Fund

This fund supports the adaptive capacity of arts and culture organizations that were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. These nonprofits face historic challenges to overcome circumstances that were largely out of their control. Donations to this fund support the arts and cultural vitality that makes Oregon, Oregon. DONATE.

Community 101

This program gives youth across Oregon a hands-on learning experience in philanthropy. Over the course of a school year, students identify community needs, research nonprofits and establish their own grantmaking focus. They visit community organizations, volunteer and learn powerful lessons. In 2023, 842 students from 37 schools granted $200,000 to 135 organizations. We expect even greater impact in years to come.  DONATE

DACA, Immigrant and Refugee Fund

OCF partners with The Collins Foundation and Meyer Memorial Trust to form the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative. The purpose is to create a coordinated, collaborative framework to address issues of immigration and refugees in our state, and to support local organizations responding to these issues DONATE

Latino Partnership Program

This statewide program addresses the challenges facing the Latino/x communities, including education, leadership development and a special focus on wealth building for future generations. With the support of many volunteers, this program centers the voices and experiences and collective wisdom of the Latinos/x in comunidades (communities) across Oregon. DONATE

Child Care Shared Services Fund

High quality child care provides lifelong benefits to families and local economies. Yet "child care deserts” persist across Oregon and costs keep it out of reach where it is available. This fund supports the Oregon Child Care Alliance’s goal of stabilizing and strengthening child care providers and increasing the availability of enriching environments for children. DONATE

Thriving Entrepreneurs Fund

Innovation and entrepreneurship are critical for Oregon’s economic growth. This fund supports nonprofits that help entrepreneurs with business planning, training, coaching and access to capital. OCF prioritizes organizations that serve historically underserved entrepreneurs, including women, people of color and rural residents to help build an equitable economy where everyone thrives. DONATE

Black Student Success Fund

Community leaders have told us the educational challenges facing Black children and families in Oregon are too great for one organization or group to tackle alone. This fund supports the Black Student Success Network to facilitate meaningful partnerships and coalitions to tackle root causes of educational inequity and build the conditions needed for Black students to succeed. DONATE

Oregon Scholarship Fund

OCF is the largest provider of scholarships in Oregon. This fund creates life-changing educational opportunities for aspiring students who have faced the greatest challenges affording post-secondary learning: students of color, first-generation college students, those living with low income, and those from rural communities. DONATE 

Ready to Learn Fund

Research shows a child’s first five years are critical to succeeding in school and in life. This fund supports parenting education, early literacy and professional development for the child care providers. OCF has made these crucial early years a major focus for more than two decades, with the goal of ensuring that all Oregon children arrive at school ready to learn. DONATE

Housing Stability & Ending Homelessness

Oregon’s housing crisis is clear in rural and urban communities alike. Access to safe, stable and affordable housing is critical for communities to thrive. This fund supports efforts to address Oregon housing supply, high rents and a lack of shelter space and public services that contribute to Oregon's disproportionately large population of unhoused people. DONATE

Climate Change and Healthy Habitat Fund

Oregonians have seen first-hand the impacts of climate change through devastating wildfires, extreme heat events and long-lasting drought. These concerns inspired a group of OCF funders to create the Climate Change & Healthy Habitats Collective Giving Group. These donors collaborate to listen and learn about innovative responses to this existential crisis of our time. . This fund supports efforts to reduce global warming and build healthy and resilient ecosystems across Oregon. Contact us.

Healthy Environment Fund

So much of what makes Oregon “Oregon” is its natural environment. This fund supports collaborative efforts among donors, communities, nonprofits and other foundations to build regional, place-based solutions that create resilience and promote a healthy environment and a strong natural resource economy. DONATE