Multiply Your Impact
Pooled Funds
When you pool your gift with others, it has a greater impact.
OCF welcomes your contributions in any amount to the following pooled funds making a positive impact in our state. Talk with a philanthropic advisor about how you can contribute, or use the links below to donate to funds online.
Learn about pooled funds
Oregon Community Recovery Fund
Grants from this fund will continue to support our communities with a sharpened focus on the most pressing challenges Oregon is facing today: the impact of COVID-19, systemic racism and racial injustice, fires and the underinvestment and lack of infrastructure in under-resourced rural and marginalized communities across our state. DONATE.
OCF Leadership Fund
This fund accelerates community impact through investments in targeted research, special initiatives and outreach with community leaders around the state. These funds support OCF in enhancing donor connections to the causes they care about. DONATE
Oregon Fund
This fund serves the state’s greatest needs, addressing important issues like OCF's work to close the “opportunity gap” in Oregon—the chronic lack of educational and employment opportunities available to Oregon’s low-income children, children of color and rural children— to build a stronger future. DONATE
Oregon Arts and Culture Recovery Fund
Gifts support the Oregon Arts and Culture Recovery Program, which provides flexible resources from a cohort of participating funders and donors to support the arts and culture community who have been adversely impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19. DONATE
Community 101
Through the Community 101 program, students throughout Oregon are introduced to charitable giving through grantmaking and community service and increase their knowledge about community needs, nonprofits and philanthropy. DONATE
DACA, Immigrant and Refugee Fund
OCF, in partnership with other foundations, coordinates a collaborative funding approach to address issues of immigration and refugees in the state, and to support local organizations responding to these issues. DONATE
Latino Partnership Program
The Latino Partnership Program (LPP) is a statewide program of Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) that addresses challenges facing the Latino/x community. We center the voices and experiences of the Latino/x community in our efforts by leaning into the strengths and collective wisdom of our communities across Oregon. Our partnerships and statewide grantmaking efforts are aligned with our community needs and LPP priority areas: Latino/x education, Latino/x leadership development and Latino/x wealth building. DONATE
Child Care Shared Services Fund
High-quality child care is critical to healthy children, families, and local economies, yet is in short supply in Oregon. Proprietors of child care programs often face administrative constraints and function on thin profit margins, making these businesses financially unstable or unsustainable. OCF’s Child Care Shared Services Fund helps support the Oregon Child Care Alliance (OCCA), which aims to stabilize and strengthen child care businesses, bolstering the child care ecosystem and increasing child care availability and accessibility. The OCCA provides business coaching, business training, and business services, as well as a peer support network for providers. DONATE
Thriving Entrepreneurs Fund
The Thriving Entrepreneurs Fund of OCF supports nonprofit organizations that help entrepreneurs with business planning, training, coaching and access to capital. Innovation and entrepreneurship are critical for Oregon’s economic growth. OCF prioritizes organizations that serve overlooked entrepreneurs who are women, people of color and rural residents to promote an equitable economy where everyone thrives. Donations will support an annual cohort of grantees that are selected through a competitive application process. DONATE
Black Student Success Fund
OCF’s Black Student Success Fund supports an improved culture of learning for our state’s Black children and youth, responding to calls from the community to address gaps in educational access and opportunities that black students experience at all levels, from early childhood through higher education. DONATE
Child Care Shared Services Fund
High-quality child care is critical to healthy children, families, and local economies, yet is in short supply in Oregon. Proprietors of child care programs often face administrative constraints and function on thin profit margins, making these businesses financially unstable or unsustainable. OCF’s Child Care Shared Services Fund helps support the Oregon Child Care Alliance (OCCA), which aims to stabilize and strengthen child care businesses, bolstering the child care ecosystem and increasing child care availability and accessibility. The OCCA provides business coaching, business training, and business services, as well as a peer support network for providers. DONATE
Oregon Scholarship Fund
Getting a college degree is one of the best ways for people to achieve economic stability. OCF's Oregon Scholarship Fundprovides academic and vocational scholarships for Oregon residents with academic potential and financial need. DONATE
Ready to Learn Fund
A child’s first five years are critical to success in school and in life. With programs including parenting education, early literacy and professional development for the child care workforce, OCF has made these crucial early years a major focus of its work for more than two decades, with the goal of making sure that all Oregon children arrive at school ready to learn. DONATE
Housing Stability & Ending Homelessness
Homelessness is caused by, and causes, a wide variety of linked social and economic problems, touching every community in which OCF works. OCF is well positioned to promote thoughtful strategies for donors who want to make a difference through prevention, education, advocacy or direct services. DONATE
Climate Change and Healthy Habitat Fund
The OCF Climate Change & Healthy Habitats Collective Giving Group is a group of funders who collaborate to learn about and make grants to support work to reduce global warming and ensure healthy and resilient ecosystems. Anyone may contribute to the fund at any time. If you’re seeking deeper engagement by participating in shared learning, discussion and collective grantmaking, please contact us.
- To donate* or join the group, please contact Anne George at (541) 382-1170 or ageorge@oregoncf.org.
*The Climate Change and Healthy Habitat Fund cannot accept qualified charitable distributions from your retirement account.
Healthy Environment Fund
OCF supports collaborative efforts that reach agreement among a variety of stakeholders to support vibrant communities, a healthy natural environment, and a strong economy. OCF’s first proactive discretionary project within this area is a pilot project focused on water to catalyze community conversations among diverse stakeholders to plan for a more secure water future. DONATE
Benefits of Directing Your Charitable Gift toward OCF Pooled Funds
MAXIMIZING IMPACT
You can rest assured that OCF will use your gift to do the greatest good in Oregon.
INVESTMENT EXPERTISE
Your contributions are stewarded by our expert investment committee and professional managers to ensure the longevity and growth of these OCF funds, ensuring that your donation is as effective as possible.
How do Pooled Funds Work?
Donate Online
When you're ready to donate, there is no more direct or efficient method than our online giving process. There is a $25 minimum donation requirement for online gifts.
DONATE ONLINE
Donate by Mail
If you are interested in donating to a fund by mail, please send a check to OCF with the name of the fund listed on the memo line.
The Oregon Community Foundation
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Portland, OR 97205