Flourishing Oregon Communities

We work to make communities a place where everyone can earn, learn, and belong.

Our Initiatives

As a community development corporation in Oregon, we serve as a hub or backbone to provide ladders for climbing from poverty into prosperity, improving health outcomes, integrating faith-based and family service programs, creating public-private partnerships, expanding the supply of economical housing and encouraging and assisting commercial development.

Rockwood Community Development

A place for everyone to learn, earn and belong in Oregon’s most under-invested and diverse community.

Sunrise Center
and Kitchen

An incubator for local food entrepreneurs, an event space for everyone, and a hub for community action.

Rockwood Food Systems Collaborative

A network that builds sustainable food systems in East Multnomah County.

Oregon Community
Capital

Harnessing capital for social good in opportunity zones in Oregon.

East County Community Health

Increasing health outcomes in East Multnomah County and Oregon’s most underserved communities

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Our Context

Oregon has more income inequality than most states. If Multnomah County were a state, the West side would be the second wealthiest state in America and the East side would be the second poorest.