Urgent Action Needed to Stabilize Oregon’s Nonprofit and Community Service Ecosystem
Nonprofits are essential to how our communities function, and right now they are at risk. Across Oregon, organizations delivering housing, healthcare, food access, and other critical services are facing rising demand, unstable funding, delayed payments, and increasing administrative burdens. These challenges reflect a system that relies on nonprofits without providing the coordinated support needed to sustain them. If nonprofits destabilize, services do not shift elsewhere. They disappear.
What We’re Recommending
Stabilize Now. Fix Systems. Build Infrastructure.
Emergency stabilization funding and rapid response and triage support
Improved contracting, payment timelines, and compliance systems
Investment in coordinated nonprofit capacity, technical assistance, and support networks
Join the Call
Add your name to support immediate, coordinated action for Oregon’s nonprofit ecosystem.
Those Who Have Signed On
Michael Jonas, Nonprofit and Small Business Attorney, Narwhal Law and Business Strategy
Deanna Kavanaugh, Principal Consultant, Kavanaugh Consulting
Mark Lewis, Organizational Strategist and Nonprofit Consultant
Scott Kerman, Social Impact Executive, Systems Change Advocate & Builder
Jacobsen Valentine, Executive Director, Feed the Mass
Tom Hering, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Benefit Corporations for Good
Hector Marquez, Executive Director, Historic Parkrose
Blake Peters, Executive Director, Carpe Mundi
Debra Porta, Nonprofit Executive and Consultant
Suzanne Veaudry Casaus, Education Program Manager, MESO (Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon)
Chase Sterling, Executive Director, Wellbeing Think Tank
Brandy Memory, Executive Director, P48
Nikia Solbjor, Director of Programs, P48
Tonya Daniels, Life Skills Program Director, P48
Jessie Fox, Director of Community Engagement and Operations, P48
Kim Silva, Executive Director, Friends of Outdoor School
Jacquelyn Krogman, Director of Operations, Social Good Place
Janine Winters, Community and Marketing Director, Social Good Place
Justin Howe, Board President, Rugby Oregon
Cara Sandels, Manager Director, Sandels Public Health Consulting LLC
Melissa Erickson, Development Director, A Village for One
Nancy Martin, President & Community Impact Coordinator, Friends Involved in Dog Outreach, & National Pet Assistance Network (NoPetHungryAmerica.com)
Lisa Kislingbury Anderson, Community Member
Jodi Collins, Development
Christine Taylor, Impact Brand Strategist
Marina Martinez-Bateman, CEO, New Coyote Consulting
Kenny Asher, Founder/Owner, HERE LLC
Audrey Alverson, Founder & Principal Consultant, The Bold Work Collaborative
Courtney Vogelaar, Fractional CFO & Business Advisor, Vogelaar Advising LLC
Carrie DeLong Parrish, Consultant & Owner, StreamLine Storytelling
Laura Debney, Nonprofit Professional and community volunteer
Veronica Christie, Nonprofit Executive Operations Specialist
Nancy Davis, Nonprofit Consultant
Danielle Morris, Triconal, Inc.
Zhou Fang, Intersectional Group
Michelle Lagos, Managing CEO of Get Lagos Now
Renee Garcia, Founder & Creative Director, Renee Lynn Creative
Nedra Rezinas, Business Coach
Jonathan Cloud Strunin, Owner, Jay & Oak Solutions
DJ Kelly-Quattrocchi, Founder & CEO, KQ Consulting & Training LLC
Demarcus Peters, Community Member
Renée Muzquiz, Client and Community Navigator, Narwhal Law and Business Strategy
Michele Godwin, Community Member
Stephen Jensen, Sponsor Community
Christy Gifford, Concerned citizen
Alex Moore, Owner of BeeBook
Aria Joughin, Owner, MakeWith
Nathanael Andreini, Commerical Real Estate Advisor & Consultant
Paul Tilyaev, CPA, Managing Partner, Perpetual CPA LLP
Lily Pak, PortlandSmallBusinessNetwork.com
Pallavi Pande, Owner, Dtocs
Victoria Proppe, Imagine Marketing Strategies
Nick Laws, Co-Owner, Rook & Raven
*Additional organizations and community leaders have signed on to this letter.
