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In Giving and Gratitude… The Season Has Begun!

In Giving and Gratitude… The Season Has Begun!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Oregon Cultural Trust! As the days grow short and blustery and the holidays get underway, what better way to show your suppport for all…

This Thanksgiving, Bring Your Own. Ideas.

This fall Cultural Trust partner Oregon Humanities rolled out the “Bring Your Own” video series, featuring ideas, thoughts, and opinions from Oregon Humanities writers, scholars, and thinkers. Some…

Trust Around Town

Trust staff and board have been on the move this past month, spreading the word about year-end giving and 2013 reauthorization of the state’s cultural tax credit so…

Media Partnerships Bolster Oregon Cultural Trust

A Big Thanks to our Fall Media Partners: OPB, Community Newspapers, and Willamette Week! Willamette Week’s Annual Give!Guide featured Oregon Cultural Trust as a partner for the fourth…

John Goodwin of the Portland Trail Blazers Appointed to Cultural Trust Board

The Oregon Cultural Trust welcomes its newest board member, Portland Trail Blazers’ Premium Service Manager John Goodwin. Appointed to the Trust board by Gov. John Kitzhaber on November…

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon Public Broadcasting

With a Grant from the Cultural Trust, Rajneeshpuram: An Oregon Experience, premieres November 19, 8pm on OPB-TV Like it or not, the Rajneesh is a part of Oregon’s…

Libraries of Eastern Oregon’s Pendleton Word Round-Up

Libraries of Eastern Oregon’s Pendleton Word Round-Up

In FY2013 The Cultural Trust awarded $5,000 to first-time Trust grantee Libraries of Eastern Oregon (LEO) to support its first-ever Word Round-Up book and writer’s fair, which just…

Lovin’ Our Libraries, Guest News by ckikele Lasky (Josephine Community Libraries)

Lovin’ Our Libraries, Guest News by ckikele Lasky (Josephine Community Libraries)

Oregonians love libraries. You can tell because we check out over 60 million items a year, second only in use across the nation to the state of Ohio…

Introducing Oregon Culture: a Field Guide

  Drum roll, please… Introducing OREGON CULTURE: a Field Guide. Nominate your favorite arts, heritage, and humanities activities produced or protected by Oregon’s 1,300+ cultural nonprofits, throw your…

Oregon Arts Commission Hosts 530 for Arts Summit

Over 500 Oregon arts leaders descended on the Oregon Convention Center October 12 for the Sixth Annual State Arts Summit, hosted by Cultural Trust partner Oregon Arts Commission.…

Wordstock

Wordstock

On October 13-14 the Oregon Cultural Trust had a stage, an exhibitor booth and emcee duties at Wordstock Festival, recipient of a Trust grant this year. In addition…

Independent Publishing Resource Center

Independent Publishing Resource Center

Independent Publishing Resource Center, is a membership-based center for writers wishing to self-publish. (They also had a table at Wordstock.)  The Trust recently toured IPRC, which had moved…

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