The Eagle Valley Community Foundation (EVCF) works passionately to provide responsive solutions that meet the most critical and emerging needs of those working or living in the Eagle River Valley.

The Community Market’s (TCM) is a signature project of EVCF with a goal to provide low-income communities with access to free, healthy food as well as to prevent food from going to waste. Their work strives to “provide good food at the heart of our community.” The three pillars that guide their work: Healthy People, Strong Communities, and Environmental Sustainability.

The Community Market helps reduce the overall community carbon footprint by reducing food waste and recovering excess fresh food from local grocers, farmers, schools, events, and restaurants. The TCM team also addresses food insecurity and ensures that donated and rescued produce have an entire lifecycle when used through the Foundation. TCM’s three-step process focuses on first feeding people, then feeding animals (as farmers pick up food scraps at The Community Markets) and finally, composting and converting food waste to build nutrient rich soil for community use.

The Keala Foundation has had the privilege of providing 1,150 youth prevention fitness classes, 48 Youth Engagement events, and 3 early intervention programs with an alumni program (19 total youth) all around the island of Kauai. We serve over 400 families through the various events, classes, and programs we offer year round, all FREE for kids.

The objective of the Keala to Success Early Intervention Program (KSEIP) is to intervene early on with any type of addictive or negative behaviors to prevent continued substance use and potential substance use disorder as adults. This is a 30 day intervention program right on the Southside of Kauai, currently serving teen males ages 12-18, and is free for all participants.

Through the support of the Harbourton Foundation we are proud to serve the families on Kauai as well as grow our infrastructure. We finished our location in Anahola, providing the most at risk town on Kauai a home for a healthy environment to breed.

We gathered over 1500 people for the 10th annual Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run fundraising event to create awareness of drug, alcohol, suicide problems on Kauai to encourage the community that they are the solution by providing for our youth programs.

Path Home empowers homeless families with children to get back into housing - and stay there. Every year, Path Home serves more than 500 families in the Portland area per year across all programs including Family Village Emergency Shelter, Rapid Re-housing, Homeless Prevention, and Basic Income.

The innovative, trauma-informed design of Path Home’s Family Village shelter provides families with children opportunities for playing, healing, and rebuilding while also providing a wide range of services and support to move families back into housing. Families say that the care, compassion, and dignity they experience working with Path Home are what propel them to get up every day and do the hard work to make changes their lives for the better. Path Home’s model is working: 96% of families who stay in shelter at Family Village move into housing compared to 50% or less at the average Portland shelter.

Walking Mountains Science Center staff and board have been focused on our equity efforts within the community. This past year our board of directors made the decision to eliminate fees for our Field Science Programs in public schools. This has been an important step in our efforts to make natural science and sustainability education accessible to all members of our community. Additionally, Walking Mountains continues to lead a collaborative effort working to break down barriers for underrepresented groups in accessing the outdoors. Currently, we are partnering with 20 organizations to provide shared outdoor experiences for people of all ages, abilities and cultures free of charge.

Outside the Bowl is dedicated to alleviating hunger and malnourishment in children. They pack and ship over 150,000 VitaKidz nutritious meals every day to areas in need. This year, after the earthquake in Haiti, Outside the Bowl provided over 87,000 hot meals to those in need. In South Africa, they distributed 38,000 meals by private airplane while roads were blocked by riots.

They opened a long-awaited Super Kitchen in Juarez Mexico and also completed the first production run of Wow Bar!, a new tool in fighting hunger that is ready-to-eat and easy to distribute. Outside the Bowl continues to establish Instant Meal Distribution Centers, which will lead to more ministry partnerships to help provide meals in remote areas of Guatamala, the Domican Republic, and Haiti.

In June, Central City Concern opened Cedar Commons, their first housing development offering clinical services and supports for people facing unique and complex mental health needs. The voices of clients experiencing homelessness informed the service delivery model at Cedar Commons, which features supportive on-site staff, opportunities for community-building and even communal gardening boxes.

Maximizing the expertise and collective resources of the OFB Network

ReFED joins PCC as a resource partner in the West Coast Voluntary Agreement to Reduce Wasted Food.