News in Brief: Enterprise artist wins career grant
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation
The Wallowa Valley Music Alliance, in partnership with the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture and Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts is sponsoring...more

$53K Awarded To 24 Oregon-Based Artists
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation
From Oregon Arts Commission: In the final competitive rounds of FY2018 Career Opportunity Grants, the Oregon Arts Commission, The Ford...more

Philomath School District takes forestry, natural resources programs to next level
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation
Joe Malcolm, Philomath Community Foundation chair, said forestry partners have contributed about $70,000 to go toward the program. The...more

Friends of the Children receives $150K in foundation grants
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation
BEND, Ore. - Friends of the Children Central Oregon just received two major grants from the Ford Family Foundation and the Silver Family...more

Kids' HOPE Center celebrates training program milestone
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation, Ford Foundation
The Ford Family Foundation had provided a grant of $35,000 per year for the last three years, which ran from May 2015 to May 2018, to be awarded...more

'Unique' new Sulzbacher housing for homeless women and families to open in late May
Foundation: JM Family Enterprises
Among the 270 donors to the project were the Lucy B. Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust, the Crawford Family Foundation, the Jim Moran Foundation, Florida Blue, the Delores Barr Weaver Fund at The...more

The Importance of Being Nimble to Support Communities in Need
Foundation: Montana Community Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Seattle Foundation
As a grantmaker, I know the importance of staying connected to the community. Everything I do as a program officer requires me to be in a good relationship with the community at large and to...more

Healthy Beginnings receives $94K grant from Ford foundation
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation
A local program that offers free health and development assessments has received a $94,000 grant from the Ford Family Foundation that will help connect rural families with services they need. Healthy...more

Healthy Beginnings receives $94000 foundation grant
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation
For nearly 23 years, Healthy Beginnings has provided Central Oregon families with accessible, free health and developmental assessments for children from birth to five years old. The organization...more

April events focus on child abuse prevention
Foundation: Ford Family Foundation
The event is one of several planned throughout the county during April, which is Child Abuse Prevention Month nationwide. Helgeson, 24, is working on a two-year grant from the Ford Family Foundation,...more