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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

East County Housing

East County Housing manages properties, coordinates services, and advocates for housing system change in East Multnomah County.

East County Business Bridge

Connecting entrepreneurs to mentors, money, and markets.

COVID Response

We are responding to the COVID-19 crisis in Oregon's most vulnerable community.

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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.

Financials & Reports

View our financials and annual reports for a deeper look into our history, how we work and how we are funded.

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2019 Annual Report

Our Key Values

Never leave the table

We are here for the long-term, even when things get hard. We do not launch programs and then leave but we are here until our vision has been accomplished. ⁠

Reconciliation

We pursue the disconnected and bring them into relationship through what is often hard relational work that is rooted in listening, humility, and learning. ⁠

It’s personal

We intentionally invest in relationships as we invest in other aspects of community development. Everyone that works with us and for us is personally involved in the lives of our community. This keeps us relationally connected to our neighbors and community.

Build Bridges, Not Armies

Everything we do is built on an ethic of inclusion, diversity, and justice. Reconciliation is hard work and we are committed to building diverse relational bridges that lead to true justice.⁠

Our Strategy

We work intentionally with members of Oregon's underserved communities to solve systems-level issues with systems-level solutions.

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