Grantee Stories

Coos Watershed Association

When the Coos Watershed Association formed in the 1990s, there was plenty of opportunity for dissent. Oregonians were polarized on how to manage the state’s forests, at odds about how to strike a balance between watershed health with timber harvests and tribal needs. Emerging from this divide, the Coos Watershed Association brought neighbors together to… Read more »

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Ashland Family YMCA

On the shores of Lake of the Woods, YMCA Camp DeBoer is a brand new camp and conference center just an hour’s drive from Ashland. With its sparkling facilities, heated cabins and gorgeous lake views, Camp DeBoer is quickly becoming a go-to destination for outdoor school in southern Oregon. “People are really excited about the new… Read more »

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Portland Audubon

When youth at Miraflores, a North Portland housing community, attend after-school activities with Portland Audubon, they might not realize they’re tapping potential career paths—they are just having fun outside. Miraflores is a community of Hacienda CDC, Portland’s largest Latinx-led, Latinx-serving affordable housing provider, which has been partnering with Audubon for more than a decade to… Read more »

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