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In July, Ford Institute Director Roque Barros and Associate Director Max Gimbel met with a community action team in Ontario. The group had identified 10 priorities after a Ford Institute partner-led Alumni Celebration. After deliberation,...  Read More

On the morning of Sept. 15, 2014, people in the northern California community of Weed were enjoying a sunny fall day. Children were settling into their week at school. The Weed Community Center’s gym was echoing with the sound of teen-...  Read More

Inside the offices of the Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon, Dr. Edward Kerwin and his staff are part of the race to save the world. Kerwin was tapped in the spring to lead one of the nearly 90 U.S. clinical trial sites taking...  Read More

A bright, engaging book about a can-do young person, Sofia Valdez, Future Prez is a quick read with a lasting message: Even kids can make a difference. The rhyming picture book begins with a word portrait of the second-grader that young...  Read More

A jury of five arts professionals from within and outside of Oregon selected Natalie Ball of Chiloquin, Iván Carmona of Portland, and Donald Morgan of Eugene as the 2020 Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts. They were chosen from a...  Read More

How has community-building enabled communities to respond to COVID-19? That’s the question the Ford Institute for Community Building set out to answer, some four months after the pandemic hit Oregon. In June of 2020, 35 community builders...  Read More

Challenging times often bring out the best in people, as they respond to the needs in their communities. Here are three of the many stories that surfaced as businesses, neighborhoods and regions worked together to deal with the pandemic.‘...  Read More

When schools across Oregon went virtual last March in the wake of the pandemic, rural areas faced a special problem: Geographic and economic limitations meant many households had limited or no access to the internet. Stories abound of...  Read More

It is harvest time in the Hood River Valley, and orchardist Erin Roby is busy getting crews geared up for the eight-week picking season on her family’s 330 acres of pears. With the emergence of COVID-19, things look a lot different this...  Read More

As one of the top leaders for the state of California’s early response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ford Scholar Charity Dean, M.D., is a study in success. As she regularly shares with new Ford Scholars, her secret is simple: She has failed...  Read More