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COMMUNITYAutumn 2012
The NeWSLeTTeR of The oRegoN CommuNiTy fouNdaTioN
The mission of The oregon CommuniTy
foundaTion is To improve life in oregon and promoTe effeCTive
philanThropy.
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Letter From the President 2
An Oregon Story 3
OCF ‘In the News’ 4
Administrative Fund 5
Grants Around Our State 6
OCF volunteer leaders and staff gathered for two days in Corvallis in August to share stories and discuss ways that OCF can better support communities around the state.
The first day focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, with council members noting that philanthropy currently encourages innovation through fostering partnerships across sectors, funding creative solutions, leveraging limited resources and focusing on education. Attendees also felt that philanthropy could do more to support innovation by inspiring young people with internship opportunities, funding more workforce development, and creating partnerships between foundations and nonprofits that encourage returns on investment.
In the evening, OCF hosted a community reception, where OSU President Ed Ray and OCF President
and CEO Max Williams spoke about the connections between education and philanthropy and the work being done by both in the Southern Willamette Valley.
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Convening and Connecting: OCF Leadership Councils and Board Spend Quality Time in Corvallis
Children’s Dental Health Initiatives Draw Statewide/National Attention
“The need here (in Oregon) is just as great as anything I’ve seen in the developing countries where I’ve provided volunteer dentistry.”
~ Dr. Park McClung
OCF was honored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for Ready to Smile, a children’s dental health promotion program serving
Coos and Curry counties. The HUD Secretary’s Award honors community foundations for their innovative public-philanthropic collaborations. In partnership with Coos County Public Health and local dental professionals, OCF launched the Ready to Smile program to provide coordinated, cost-effective services, including
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This summer i have traveled the state and en-joyed the opportunity to meet many of you. i have been to receptions, volun-teer meetings, fundraising dinners and grant discus-sions. i have also spent time with many profes-sional advisors. it’s been a pleasure to finally get to know our “connectors” —
the professionals who refer so many of our donors to us.
i am constantly invigorated by the chance to sit with generous men and women and listen to them as they talk about their desires to give portions of their wealth to causes they care about. i have recently had the honor to help John gray and his family set up a new supporting organization at oCf, the gray family foundation. and we’ve continued to hold meetings around the state to come up with the best plan for the fred fields gift for education and the arts. John and fred have added so much to our state — both in the businesses they ran and as generous philanthropists. They truly exemplify the best our state has to offer. We are fortunate that all our donors place such confidence in us.
oCf’s volunteers continue to be stalwart ambassadors for oCf. in these pages we’ve shared a few photos from our leaders gathering, held this year on the osu campus in Corvallis. for two days our volunteer leadership council members learned about oCf, while we learned about the issues that are important to each of them and their communities.
i head into fall confident that with your help oCf will continue to play an important leadership role in bringing both resources and fresh ap-proaches to solving tough issues. i look forward to our work together.
A Letter from mAx WiLLiAms, President And Ceo
Day 2 focused on OCF’s services to donors and the roles that leadership council members can play in furthering the work of the Foundation. Council members discussed what they could do to support OCF’s mission and how
their councils could exercise community leadership. OCF Board Chair Eric Parsons noted that the common messages were the need to convene, collaborate, connect and communicate: the four “Cs” that volunteers and staff will use to guide their regional strategies.
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The following are excerpts from Carol Whipple’s speech to the Oregon Planning Institute on Sept. 13.
Carol is an advisor to the Whipple Foundation Fund, dedicated to assisting residents of Douglas County. Since its creation, the fund has provided more than $2.4 million in grants to Douglas County.
In order to position philanthropy to move Oregon forward, it is necessary to take a brief look at the past, and I’m going to use a story I know a little something about. It is but one story, and Oregon has countless stories, including each of yours.
My parents, Jim and Mildred Whipple, were both lifelong Douglas County residents and practiced service to the community for as long as I knew them and even longer, based on what I know about them. Mildred was born in Roseburg in 1910. Jim was born in Drain in 1912. Jim and Mildred met in Drain, where she had moved to teach in the high school. They married in 1938.
When Jim arrived in Portland, having been called up for WWII service, he was sent home because he ran a sawmill. Wood products, including poles and pilings from near here south to Glendale, were shipped all over the world in that war effort. Jim and Mildred always lived in Drain, running that sawmill until the early ‘60s then continuing with forest land management until Jim died an untimely death in 1979 in an on-farm accident. Mildred remained in her home and actively engaged in both her business and community life until her passing on the 4th of July, 2006. She lived an unyielding commitment to the importance of education, a commitment that provided the basis for the establishment of the Whipple Family Foundation that is dedicated to serving the educational needs of the citizens of Douglas County.
My place in this narrative means that early in 2013 I will celebrate 65 years of living in Douglas County, literally a lifetime of rural living in one of the most heavily timbered counties in the country. Because I was born into a sawmilling family, some of my earliest recollections are of the sights, sounds and smells associated with a small sawmill in a small town.
The whir and whine of saw against log and the thunk of finished product in many ways shaped who I am to this day. I know that spent blood, sweat and tears contribute to a sense of place in ways no other inputs can touch. Out of that sense of place I now have the privilege of pairing philanthropic efforts with community efforts, as Oregon looks to plan a future whose complexity will only increase by any standard or measure you want to use.
As Sam Keen said, “If we don’t know that the story we were brought up with is optional, then we live it out blindly and unconsciously.”
In the story I have shared with you, some individuals within an Oregon family opted to not live blindly and unconsciously but intentionally — and resources were directed to ideals that mattered to them and benefited the larger community.
There is indeed much work to be done. And it is our legacy — Oregon’s legacy — to do it.
For a transcript of the full remarks, please go to www.oregoncf.org.
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you CaRe aBouT
orEgoN commUNITy FoUNDaTIoN
BoarD oF DIrEcTorS
offICerSEric Parsons, Chair
Sue Miller, Vice ChairHal Snow, Vice Chair
Corrine Oishi, SecretaryTim Mabry, Treasurer
MeMBerSMichael Coughlin
Kirby DyessRomán Hernández
Jim MarkDuane McDougall
Sue NaumesTrish SmithKay Toran
Duncan Wyse
PreSIDeNt AND CeoMax Williams
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An oregon Story
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OCF Partners With OPB to Strengthen Statewide News Coverage
The Oregon Community Foundation and OPB share
a strong commitment to a well-informed and engaged
citizenry in Oregon. And that commitment has been
considerably strengthened with a $300,000 grant from
the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the
“One Oregon” journalism project to increase sources of
statewide journalism and engage citizens in major issues
faced across Oregon.
The grant is awarded through the Knight Foundation’s Community Information Challenge, which works to involve community and place-based foundations in meeting local information needs. The two-year project will develop a content-sharing network linking local newspapers and news organizations across the region and engage communities across the state in the newsgathering process.
”This partnership will help ensure that every community has access to good information about issues of local concern as well as issues that affect the entire state,” said Max Williams, president and CEO of OCF. “And good information is critical to all our efforts to improve life in Oregon.”
screenings, sealants and tooth-
brushing kits at the schools. This
program is a result of the South
Coast Regional Action Initiative and
a $500,000 contribution from OCF.
In the Southern Willamette Valley,
the Regional Action Initiative provided
more than $319,000 in grants
this summer to six organizations
dedicated to improving children’s
dental health in Benton, Douglas, Lane and Linn counties.
Cottage Grove volunteers Dr. Park McClung; Frank Simpson, OCF Leadership Council; and Tim Rochholz, South Lane School District, spearheaded an impressive effort and built a dental clinic for underserved children and the elderly in 207 days. The clinic had its grand opening in September and was funded in part by an OCF grant.
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oCf ‘In the News’
On Oct. 10, OCF hosted “Creating a New Landscape,” a forum on the future of public broadcasting in Oregon. Held at the Ecotrust Building in Portland, the event was attended by staff and board members of public broadcasting organizations around the state as well as by foundation representatives. OCF’s President and CEO Max Williams opened the daylong event and introduced Congressmen Earl Blumenauer and Greg Walden, who both spoke about the opportunities for and challenges to public broadcasting.
Forum participants reaffirmed the role of public media in supporting civic discourse, strengthening community life and providing access to media in all areas of the state. Discussions centered on the need to collaborate to ensure that these organizations can continue to fill that role.
OPB board member Jack McGowan, Congressman Greg Walden and OPB President Steve Bass; KWSO Station Manager Sue Matters; Congressman Earl Blumenauer and forum participants; OPB board member Avel Gordly; JPR Foundation Executive Director Paul Westhelle
OCF Hosts Forum on the Future of Public Broadcasting
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GUaraNTOr $1,000+AnonymousAnonymous Fund #17Arthur E. BaileyDean L. Baker FundPatricia H. and John C. Beckman
FundJ & S Bishop FundBarbara Bowerman FundThe Chiles FoundationMichael and Katherine CoughlinCrane Creek Family FundAnne and James F. CrumpackerSid and Karen DeBoer FoundationJane and Howard Glazer FundGray Family FundHampton Lumber SalesHennion Family FundRonna and Eric Hoffman FundSue and Mike HollernHuntting Family FundKerr Pacific CorporationJim and Judy KnappKral TrustLynn LoackerJim MarkMelvin Mark Jr. TrustLaura MeierSue and John MillerWilliam Moffat and Joy AbeleCraig W. and Linda J. Moore Family
Fund M.J. Murdock Charitable TrustJerry and Corrine Nothman FundCorrine OishiRandom Lengths PublicationsThomas A. and Georgina T. RussoDoris ScharpfRobert and Janice Schock FundMarty and Mary Lou SmithHal and Jeanyse SnowCornelia and William StevensDouglas L. Stoudt FundGeorge E. SwindellsRonald E. and Ivy L. Timpe FundRobert and Betsey UngerWard Family FundJanet Webster FundGary and Eileen Wehrle FundOCF Joseph E. Weston Public
FoundationBenjamin R. and Elaine M. Whiteley
FundCarol and Tom WilliamsWright Land Co.Thomas Wrightson FundDuncan WyseThe Wyss Foundation
BeNefaCTOr $500+Anonymous Fund #29Brauti Family FundJohn and Joan CaseyComerford-Didente Family FundCredits Inc.Jim CurranSharon DouglasMargueritte Hirschbuhl Drake FundTed and Diane Freres
Gerald and Olivia FroebeScott and Pamela Gibson Family
FundKit GillemCharles and Christie Hewitson FundJohn and Lari Hodecker Family
FundElizabeth HoldenHult & Associates LLCJayne and Doug HurlThe Samuel S. Johnson FoundationPeter KoehlerKenneth and Colleen Lewis FundJoanne M. Lilley TrustEdith H. MillerNathan Family Charitable FundSue NaumesSheila Nolan and Bill De JagerGayle and Carol Post Family FundBarnes D. Rogers Family FundWilliam and Nancy Rosenfeld FundDonna ShepherdBob and Joan Taylor Family FundThorndike Family Rogue Valley FundKenneth and Marta Jo ThrasherDavid and Christine Vernier
PaTrON $250+AnonymousAppel Family FundRichard AtiyehFlorence V. Barnhart FundFrank BaumanGilbert and Bobbie BeckMary C. BeckerSara Behrman and Francis RosicaGeorge and Val BellPeter and Susan BelluschiMax and Judith Maddox BigbyPeter Bishop FundCongressman Earl Blumenauer and
Margaret KirkpatrickPhyllis G. BurnsDoris CarlsenPaul and Kathie EckmanJohn and Jane EmrickLarry and Jeanette Epping Family
FoundationLinda EvansTom and Marilyn FinkMike and Pam ForresterGerry FrankVerda GiustinaDon Gleason and Wendy WareDoug and JoAnn GordenierHarriet HayesMichael HenningsenRomán HernándezRobert H. and Cecelia Huntington
FundFrederic IngRenee IrvinRichard JaffeAnne JaquaJane R. Kendall Living TrustJoseph and Betty LabadieMarcia and Thomas LeeHon. Lorenzo Mejia and Cristina
SanzRuben Menashe
Charley and Lauri MillerCarl MoseleyTom and Chris NeilsenJohn and Ginger NiemeyerJohn W.S. PlattSi and Shirley ReedyPaula RiniPeter Sage and Debra LeeDaniel P. SantosSea-Sun General PartnershipDick Solomon and Alyce FlitcraftJoan and John StauntonJulie SterlingTodd and Lorri TaylorDale and Jo Ann ThomasJeanette and Kevin Thomas Mike and Jill ThorneSam and Sara TuckerSpike Wadsworth and Sherry ShengCharles and Karen WarrenWeiss Fund
SPONSOr $100+Darwin and Betty AllisonCecelia and Tim AmuchasteguiBain Insurance AgencyJohn BakkensenTed and Jean BarssKaren J. BassettJohn Becic Family TrustMort Bishop and Mary Lang BishopLarry and Susan BlackArlene J. BoltonSarah BottomsTracy BowermanAnn BrewerJohn and Kathleen BuchnerGeorge and Ruth BurlinghamSusan CainDick and Linda CarneyWilliam V. DeatherageRobert DeckerJohn DeemingMary Jane DellenbackBill and June DuhaimeAlan and Carol EberleinPaul F. Ehinger & AssociatesEvergreen Charitable TrustBill and Theresa FarrensSylvia Breed GatesSylvia GiustinaRobert and Leslie GlasgowRandell and Mary Jane GuyerSally and Harold HeatonBonnie Henderson and Charles
ZennachéMrs. Frederick W. HorstkotteMartha HurleyHarriet IsomGary and Sue KaufmanTed and Debra KayeEarl and Denise KellenbeckAase KendallRoy and Sheila KimballGordon and Dodie KingBetty KlepperPatricia LieuallenPeter and Bonny LowBill and Mary MainwaringCaddy McKeown
Edward McNamara and Andrea Vargo
Arthur and Aileen McNettDrs. Elliot and Marlene MorrisonDavid and Ann MunroGeorgia NowlinKandis Brewer NunnSherman and Wanda OlsrudJanice OrloffJean and Jim PinnigerMark and Alice RamptonCampbell RichardsonRichard RobinsonRosemarie RosenfeldRichard and Karen ScheelandRobert and Marianne SchugPenny and Peter SerrurierCharles and Mary SinclairLynn and Doris SjolundBoyce and Lori SmithDick and Harriet SmithMarilyn StevensonSteven K. StewartGlen and Melinda SweeneyJean TateBob and Joan Taylor Family
Designated FundTom and Joan TriplettDiane TutchBill and Barbara WarnerChristopher and Priscilla Williams
FundHarriet M. WintonCarolyn Wood
UNderwrITerAnonymousMatthew BissonetteEarla DaoustJohn and Patricia EdmundsonDennis IrishSue KupillasArline LamearThomas S. LancefieldRon and Jewel LansingAlicia R. MacArthurSally MannMcKenzie View FundVictor and Toinette MenasheMadeline NelsonSam and Dottie PambrunShirley RayPaul and Monique RowanCathy Peterson and Richard
RudolphTara SiegmanAnn and Bill SmartAnthony SmithBeverly A. TrenemanDr. Howard and Mrs. Rena WagnerDr. and Mrs. John WatsonMelissa WilmotNancy and Dennis Wilson
The foundation thanks the oregonians who have made a contribution to the oCf administrative fund in 2012. We invite others to join them. This support allows oCf to promote, develop and increase philanthropy in oregon.
Administrative fund ContributionsJan. 1, 2012 – Sept. 21, 2012
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orEgoN SocIal BUSINESS cHallENgE, PorTlaND
The oregon Fund awarded a $10,000 grant to the Oregon University System to support the Oregon Social Business Challenge, a special convening of education, business, philanthropic and community leaders held on Oct. 1 at the Oregon Convention Center. Muhammad Yunus (pictured at far left), Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the microcredit concept, keynoted the event, which was intended to lead to the development of business solutions for pressing local and statewide issues.
mID-VallEy lITEracy cENTEr, KEIzEr
Keizer’s Mid-Valley Literacy Center is committed to seeing a Pacific Northwest where all adults have the literacy skills to achieve their dreams and enhance the quality of their lives. It provides literacy services to adults to increase their economic stability and overall quality of family life. The latino Partnership Program Fund is supporting the center’s mission through a $4,284 grant to train volunteer tutors to teach English (ESL) and GED preparation skills to adults in Marion and Polk counties.
Grants Around Our State
HarNEy coUNTy ESD, BUrNS
OCF’s Boomers and Babies Project Fund has granted $5,000 to the Harney County ESD to link the talents of baby boomer volunteers to programs that support the education and nurturing of children from birth to age five. Boomers and Babies is part of the Community Experience Partnership, a national initiative of The Atlantic Philanthropies.
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rogUE VallEy commUNITy FooD SySTEm PlaNNINg ProcESS, mEDForD
The Nye Family Fund has made a $5,500 grant to the Rogue Valley Community Food System planning process, a community-based effort to identify opportunities and needs in the valley’s food system and to develop a plan to address them and increase consumption of healthy, local food. Under the umbrella of Access Inc., the Community Action Agency of Jackson County, the process is a project of three nonprofit partners in Jackson and Josephine counties.
crEaTIVE aDVocacy NETworK, PorTlaND
The Dant Family Fund and The Edna l. Holmes Fund of OCF have made a $25,000 grant to Portland’s Creative Advocacy Network to promote and educate citizens about the importance of arts education. CAN’s goal is to increase access to arts and culture for every resident, make free arts and music experiences available to every school-age child in their classrooms and communities, and strengthen high-quality art and cultural institutions.
wESTErN rIVErS coNSErVaNcy, PorTlaND
Western Rivers Conservancy protects outstanding river ecosystems in the western United States, acquiring land to conserve critical habitat and provide public access for enjoyment. It cooperates with other agencies and organizations to secure the health of whole ecosystems. oregon Parks Foundation Fund has made a $5,000 grant to Western Rivers Conservancy for restoring the John Day River Project in Cottonwood Canyon State Park, supporting the creation of Oregon’s newest state park.
“Working on the AAUW Weil Scholarship Fund gives me a chance to
see the legacy left to our branch by Helen Weil turn into assistance for
women to complete their college education.”
~ Elouise Mattox, scholarship fund volunteer
OCF has many scholarship funds that help make higher education more
accessible. One of these funds was established by the Bend branch of the
American Association of University Women. The fund’s scholarships focus on
women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields who
have completed Central Oregon Community College and are transferring to
a four-year college. Since 2004 the fund has distributed more than $56,000
in scholarships to 20 students.
womEN IN STEm FIElDS HElPED By BEND ScHolarSHIP FUND
John Gray spent decades giving back to Oregon – as a developer in-tent on creating structures that would complement the beauty of the North-west and through years of thoughtful and generous philanthropy.
Just before John passed away this month at age 93, he and members of the Gray family established The Gray Family Foundation at OCF to carry on a legacy that will span several genera-tions of giving.
Over the past 40 years, Gray and his family set the bar as some of Or-egon’s most enthusiastic, thoughtful and driven donors. John and his late wife, Betty, established funds at OCF more than twenty years ago, supporting humanitarian, educa-tional and cultural programs that
continue to benefit Or-egonians today. The early childhood educa-tion investment from Betty Gray’s estate be-came a major initiative at OCF and has inspired similar efforts around the country.
The Gray Family Foundation intends to further the work of the OCF Gray Family Ad-vised Fund by nurturing the systems that nurture Oregonians: culture, the natural envi-ronment and human communities.
Nick Walrod, John and Betty Gray’s grandson, expressed his hopes for their foundation. “The Gray Family vision extends several generations into the future, with an intention to continue implement-
ing good, challenging, intelligent programs that build on what makes Oregon so special.”
“Whether as a businessman, phi-lanthropist or involved citizen, John Gray expressed his love for our state and his belief in our future. He will be sorely missed,” said Max Williams, OCF President and CEO.
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Former OCF President Greg Chaillé and John Gray at a 2011 reception.
