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.

Rockwood Community Health Collaborative

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

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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.