Opening doors to new possibilities by strengthening children and families and improving communities.

We open doors to new possibilities by strengthening children and families and improving communities.   Help us improve lives for ALL those in the Gorge.  The Next Door, Inc. (TNDI) helps children, families, and communities thrive in the Columbia Gorge.

The Next Door Inc.

"Providing relief and recovery in the wake of major disasters, traumatic events and social injustice." -AWB

Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) provides immediate disaster relief and recovery to communities that are in crisis resulting from disaster or human conflict. AWB is committed to creating alliances with local community based organizations and treating all who have been affected - survivors, first responders, emergency personnel and other care providers.  AWB uses community-style acupuncture to provide caring, compassionate treatment in a group setting. This model of treatment allows everyone treated to experience relief from stress and trauma together. When the entire group feels calm and quiet, hope, determination and resilience rises powerfully within it.

Acupuncturists Without Borders

Autism Empowerment is a neurodivergent-led nonprofit devoted to helping youth and adults  worldwide lead awesome meaningful lives!

**Autism Empowerment** is a passionate nonprofit organization led by individuals with lived experience. We are devoted to enriching and empowering the lives of autistic and neurodivergent youth, adults, and their families. We promote a culture of Autism Acceptance and believe every one of us has gifts and strengths to share with the world.

Through our enriching and empowering service-oriented programs like [Spectrum Life Magazine](https://www.spectrumlife.org), Autism Serves: Helping Hands, Autism Empowerment Cares and AWEtism We Embrace, we promote Autism Acceptance, Inclusion, and Advocacy for today's world and the future.

Come join us as an Ambassador for Acceptance of All Abilities! Be a meaningful part of helping create a world where people of all abilities are embraced! Your donations directly support programs that inspire and uplift our community members.

Thank you for your generosity and for being a part of positively changing our world!

Autism Empowerment

Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies & MCT provide specialized pediatric and family healthcare. Awarded nonprofit status in 2008.

**About Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies**

A source of shared community and healing since 1985, "Neuro" is a place where everyone belongs. We are the only nonprofit clinic group that provides mental health, occupational, physical, and speech therapy along with naturopathic care to children and families in Oregon. Neuro programs are designed to honor the whole person, celebrate their victories, and seek growth in challenge. By using Nature-based therapy, Play therapy, Feeding therapy, and much much more, we incorporate the most effective and innovative treatments and techniques to empower our clients with new skills and understanding about themselves and the world. Most of our clients are living with multiple diagnoses and many require long-term or even lifelong therapies. Annually, more than 1500 families are supported by our 65 specialty providers and 35 dedicated staff.

As a majority of our clients receive Medicaid, the removal of financial barriers to therapy is vital to ensuring our families can thrive. Neuro is a trusted resource in each of our eight communities.  We're also the first organization of our kind designated as a Culturally Specific provider by the Oregon Health Authority--specializing in serving neurodiverse people living with disabilities. The CLSS designation creates additional funding for serving this unique population. This designation along with your support will help us deliver on our commitment to reduce barriers to care and to hire and train the best providers to work with our amazing families.

As a donor partner, your dollars directly assist families through session scholarships and our  sliding fee scale; through supporting our internship program; are directed to the hiring, training, and retention of exceptional pediatric specialty providers; and are vitally important as we grow our programs further, ensuring we are able to reduce our months-long waitlists for those who wish to begin their journey with us.

Neuro has always relied on the collaborative strength, wisdom, generosity, and joy of all our communities.  We hope you'll join our journey today with your DAF gift.

If you feel inclined, we do hope you will include a little information about yourself in your donation paperwork! We'd love to have the opportunity to thank you directly for being our partner.

Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies, & our Dba, Medford Children's Therapy 

Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation exists to support the improvement and expansion of Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital.

Founded in 1998, the Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation solicits and administer funds and provides financial support for improvement and for expansion of Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital facilities and services. Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital is a 25- bed critical access hospital serving the east Linn County region including Lebanon, Sweet Home, Brownsville and surrounding communities. Since establishment, over $18 million has been raised and distributed to upgrade the hospital and associated clinics, expand services, and enhance the patient experience. Projects funded by the foundation include the addition of healing gardens designed by internationally renowned landscape architect Hoichi Kurisu, a significant remodel of the emergency room and operating rooms at the hospital, and the building of a new 15,000 sq. ft. facility to support patients undergoing treatment for substance use disorders.

The current foundation priority is raising funds to support the construction of a new 17,000 sq. ft. family medicine clinic and urgent care in the community of Sweet Home. This project will open in fall 2023 and will include a helipad and pharmacy. This project will significantly increase access to health care. 

Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation 

Pacific Communities Health District Foundation supports health care through Samaritan Pacific Health Services in Newport OR.

Founded by volunteers in 1983, the Pacific Communities Health District Foundation received its 501(c) (3) status in 1985. Our mission is to build healthier communities together by assisting the Pacific Communities Health District and the nonprofit Samaritan Pacific Health Services. We help them acquire equipment, services, and education to enhance the quality of medical care and health-related programs for the 30,000+ community members in our service area -- south, central and east Lincoln County. Samaritan Pacific Health Services operates community clinics in Waldport, Newport, Toledo and Depoe Bay. It also operates Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, a 25-bed, non-profit, federally-designated Critical Access Hospital in Newport. The Pacific Communities Health District is a taxing authority with a five-member elected board tasked with ensuring we have health care in our communities. They own Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital and surrounding buildings. Samaritan Pacific Health Services doesn't turn anyone away for inability to pay or insurance type. 

Our current primary project is the creation of a substance use disorder residential and intensive outpatient recovery center. Oregon is second in the nation for substance use disorder yet 50th for treatment availability. Our local Regional Mental Health/Substance Use Disorder Coalition reported that 1,933 Lincoln County residents (4.5% of the adult population) were diagnosed with substance use disorder between 9/1/19 and 8/31/21, yet there are no residential treatment services in Lincoln County. In response, the Pacific Communities Health District purchased a former adult foster care facility in Newport to serve as a 16-bed substance use disorder residential and intensive outpatient facility for adults (18+). Patients will come from across Oregon with priority given to residents of Lincoln County. Programs will include group and individual therapy, medication-assisted treatment and peer-delivered services for people with substance use disorder, including opiates, alcohol, methamphetamines and others. Funds are being raised to equip and furnish the facility; build an 8000-sq-ft addition for a commercial kitchen, a medical exam room, meeting spaces and offices; and remodel the existing 4696 sq-ft NW Biggs facility. As part of its mission, Samaritan Pacific Health Services is committed to operating and maintaining the center in Newport. 

Pacific Communities Health District Foundation

Our goal is for all people to experience social, emotional, and physical wellbeing with justice and hope.

Parrott Creek strives to offer person-centered and culturally responsive programs and services to address social determinants of health in our community. Our goal is for all people to experience social, emotional, and physical wellbeing with justice and hope.

We deliver our mission by ensuring that Parrott Creek is a unique, values-based, and empowering place to work.

We serve low-income children, families and individuals involved in juvenile justice, child welfare, substance misuse and behavioral health systems in the Portland Metro region and from across Oregon. Our programs range from early interventions for children and teenagers to community based services, outpatient treatment, recovery homes and intensive residential care. 

www.pcreek.org

Parrott Creek Child & Family Services

We are working for a world that lessens incidents of sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence. We believe men are the solution.

Set The Expectation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending sexual and interpersonal violence through prevention work with men, advocacy, and engagement with agencies serving survivors and their families.

“We believe the work of ending gender-based violence and inequality cannot rest only on the backs of those most affected by it. We believe in the power and agency of men as the solution, and it is only when we partner with men as champions for change, that we will make tangible progress toward safety and equality for every person, regardless of gender or gender identity.”

-Brenda Tracy, Founder

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Our Story:

Brenda Tracy’s story has circulated in team meeting rooms, newspaper articles and television clips consistently since she came forward in 2014.

And in that time, she’s reached thousands of athletes, coaches and sports fans — educating, engaging and inspiring them to join the fight against sexual and interpersonal violence.

In 1998, Brenda survived a brutal gang rape by four college football players. Two of whom played for Oregon State. She took several steps immediately after— visited a hospital, made a police report and hoped to see justice.

Unfortunately, like with so many of these cases, that didn’t happen.

Brenda moved on with her life, having to deal with the life-altering trauma on her own, while her rapists moved on with little consequence.

In 2014, she connected with a local reporter and decided to step forward with her story publicly. From that moment, things changed significantly for Brenda. Her story touched so many and opened eyes across the country.

By 2016, she started traveling the country to meet with various college football programs. She shared her story and what she envisioned would be the solution to ending the kind of violence that she’d endured all those years ago.

While we are often quick to point out that men are the problem when it comes to sexual and interpersonal violence, we rarely talk about them as the solution. Brenda decided it was time to start having that discussion.

“I believe if women alone could stop sexual violence, we would have already done it,” Brenda said. “Violence against women and marginalized communities is a men’s issue and it’s time for men to get involved.” So, she worked with young men about their roles in stopping sexual violence.

As she shared her story and mission, it was clear that some programs and coaches were setting the expectation that sexual assault and interpersonal violence would not be tolerated and others were not. Some coaches were even actively recruiting and retaining violent offenders on their teams.

In an effort to get all of these programs and coaches on the same page, in 2017, Brenda launched the #SetTheExpectation campaign. It started simple enough – a paper pledge accompanied by a hashtag asking coaches to set expectations with their players about harmful behaviors – such as rape and stalking.

Stanford Football and Penn State Men’s Basketball were the first to sign the pledge, and from there, a grassroots movement was born.

To keep up with growth, the #SetTheExpectation campaign also became Set The Expectation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. And what started as a one-person journey for Brenda, became a mission driven journey with a team devoted to making a difference.

To date, thousands of athletes across 100+ college campuses have heard Brenda’s story. As a nonprofit, we have assisted our campus partners in raising over $40,000 for community agencies serving survivors. More than 500 STE events have taken place and 52,000+ pledges have been signed. Our reach has expanded beyond sports to campus Greek Life and the Corporate sector, and we stand proudly as one of the groups who pushed the NCAA to adopt a Campus Sexual Violence Policy.

Our impact and message of “men as the solution” has changed the landscape of college sports and resulted in our founder, Brenda Tracy, being named as one of the most powerful women in sports by Sports Illustrated in 2020.

Unfortunately, 2020 also came with the Covid-19 pandemic, and the world came to a screeching halt. College campuses were shut down, sporting events cancelled, and in-person work was no longer allowed. It was during this time that our team decided to reflect on our goals and vision for the future.

We needed to make sure that our mission and our message could survive without us being on the ground doing in-person work. So, with a renewed focus and intention to make an even greater impact, we rolled up our sleeves and decided to focus on the following four areas:

Advocacy –  Shifting attitudes and beliefs around issues of sexual and interpersonal violence requires reaching and educating Americans on a national scale. Whether it be through social media and campaigns, in-person events, STE games, or PSA announcements we are committed to advocating for survivors and fostering communities free of sexual and interpersonal violence.

Community Outreach – We believe in the power of sport to transform communities and through the Set The Expectation Champions initiative we are partnering professional athletes with community agencies who serve families and survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Founded by Set The Expectation NFL Ambassador, James Smith-Williams, the Champions pilot program is launching in Washington, DC and we have plans to scale nationally and internationally.

Education – As an organization that has worked with tens of thousands of young people, many of them men and male athletes, we have a unique perspective on how to effectively engage in gender-based violence prevention education. With our first-hand experience and the assistance of expert consultants, we are developing a digital learning platform for high school and college aged students and athletes that covers topics such as trauma, consent, victim blaming, healthy manhood and more.

Policy – Setting expectations through policy is one way to create safer cultures for everyone. The NCAA Campus Sexual Violence Policy mandates that all member schools must be ready to attest to due diligence requirements for athlete histories beginning in the 2022-23 academic year. The Tracy Rule, which is the most comprehensive serious misconduct policy in the country, meets all compliance requirements of the NCAA Campus Sexual Violence Policy. We have already seen successful implementation of The Tracy Rule at University of Texas at San Antonio and we are ready to help other Universities and athletic conferences with adoption and implementation.

We are hopeful for the future, passionate about our work and grateful for your support!

Set The Expectation

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