Ranch Volunteers

Thank you!

Arts, culture and storytelling create safe and healing spaces to connect deeply to who you are, process trauma and harness the power of clarity and resilience. They can reconnect you to culture, traditional wisdom and language and build relationships across generations. They nurture joy and cultivate community.

What’s Next & What You Need To Know

  • Support programs working at the healing intersections of art and mental health
  • Support opportunities for youth from communities of historic underinvestment to experience artistic and cultural enrichment and strengthen intergenerational cultural connections
  • Partner to reconnect Indigenous and other youth with their culture to build relationships, cultivate an understanding of community reciprocity and mutual responsibility, and support mental, behavioral and physical health
  • Support intergenerational spaces that provide youth access to culture bearers, storytellers, and artists, such as tribal fellowships, immersive cultural experiences, language revitalization programs and artists in schools
  • Support artistic and cultural experiences that allow youth to connect to self, pursue passion projects, find meaning in and tell their own stories and access cultural mentors and community
  • Identify, collaborate with and leverage funds from philanthropy and tribes to support priority needs and opportunities

Volunteer News & Highlights

Vesper Meadow Education Program & The Beaver Coalition Host “Beaver Days”

The five-day event is focused on restoring Latgawa Creek with novel beaver-inspired techniques, and is the culmination of four years of research, monitoring and preparation.

Lost River Bluegrass Festival

Each July, the community of Merrill, OR grows by 50% as visitors travel to town for the Lost River Bluegrass Festival.

Restoration of Athena’s Gem Theatre in Umatilla County

Now the 200 seat auditorium with its 1921 Wurlitzer pipe organ has been restored thanks to community members who refused to give up.

Northwest Indian Language Institute’s Next Chapter

The Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) has received a grant from The Roundhouse Foundation, which supports innovative programs in Oregon’s rural communities, to launch an initiative to analyze and re-envision the needs that NILI will address as the organization moves into the future.

Sisters GRO Supports Students’ Attendance to Music in May

Music in May is one of the longest running high school music festivals in the United States. A handful of Sisters High School students were recently honored in attending.

Lincoln City Cultural Center Partners with Kiwanis on Plaza Project

The Lincoln City Cultural Center (LCCC), located in the small coastal town of Lincoln City, is a space that celebrates art, culture, and community. LCCC is housed in the historic Delake School and has operated there since 2007.