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December 2, 2025Jim Redden
The corporate giant created unauthorized fundraising pages for nonprofit groups in Oregon and across the U.S., keeping some of the money raised. Now, impacted groups are taking legal action.
December 2, 2025Laura Grimes
As the day turns on the well-known Giving Tuesday, in these parts it’s known as Giving NewsDay. It’s a day to cheer on trusted local news, and the community members who power on to deliver information you can count on.
November 24, 2025Jim Redden
At least $867,000 in previously approved funding is in danger as the Oregon Legislature grapples with sharp cuts in federal funding and a big state budget shortfall.
November 20, 2025Bob Hicks
Sustaining grants from the Oregon Arts Commission for nonprofit arts groups throughout the state will total $1,759,580 in fiscal 2026, a slight rise from 2025.
November 14, 2025Jim Redden
Twenty literary and media artists in Oregon receive $25,000 each in the second year of the foundation's three-year push to boost the careers of individual artists in the state.
November 12, 2025Jim Redden
A promised $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help fund the center's 2026 Artists' Biennial is abruptly snatched back. But the show will go on.
As the president rejects funding for art about gender, race, and "anti-American values," historians, museums, and cultural centers across Oregon and the U.S. fight back.
November 11, 2025Laura Grimes
A remarkable transformation occurs when a collective community nurtures a garden of hope.
November 7, 2025Jim Redden
Arts & cultural leaders gather to plan a strategy for greater funding from the Oregon Legislature for arts, culture, heritage and humanities, aiming for the 2027 session.
November 6, 2025Jim Redden
The popular Portland-based variety show, broadcast by public radio stations across the nation, is caught in the federal squeeze of public broadcasting and needs to raise $150,000 as the first step in a turnaround campaign.
October 31, 2025Jim Redden
The Trump Administration's assault on arts, culture, and the humanities has hit arts groups hard in the pocketbook. The fight for free expression could end up in the Supreme Court.
October 30, 2025Holly Dillemuth
Plans for a major expansion of the art museum are shelved, and its future is unsure: "You kind of feel like the rug was pulled from underneath you," the museum's director says.
October 23, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Fewer grant funds, which help arts organizations pay their general operating expenses, are available this year compared to last, due to city budget cuts and rising costs.
October 23, 2025Jim Redden
After an outcry among arts and other nonprofit groups that the unauthorized accounts created significant dangers, GoFundMe has altered its program and created safeguards.
October 16, 2025Bob Hicks
A month before the unveiling of its decade-long construction and expansion project that reinvents the downtown museum's galleries and campus, all the money is in hand.
October 16, 2025Jim Redden
As the Nov. 4 election draws close, parks supporters push back against a city audit declaring that the Parks department, which hosts many arts events, has allowed the city's parks to fall into disrepair.
October 13, 2025Jim Redden
A new statewide initiative, launched this fall, addresses the obstacles facing nonprofit arts organizations during political and funding uncertainties.
October 9, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
The framework will access staffing, quality of facilities, and other factors that impact the quality of elementary school arts education.
October 9, 2025Jim Redden
The dismantling of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting puts public radio and TV stations across the nation in a financial bind. In Oregon, stations are seeking fresh funding sources, and rural stations are hit the hardest.
October 2, 2025Bob Hicks
At a time of massive federal fund-cutting, the Oregon Cultural Trust awards a record $4.1 million to statewide groups, and the Oregon Arts Commission grants $310,000 for arts education projects.
September 25, 2025Jim Redden
City Parks, which includes three heavily used arts centers, is banking on passage of a new levy to keep its operations going. But despite popular support, a stressed city budget and some opposition could upset its plans.
August 30, 2025Jim Redden
An 11-member panel is sought to help decide how and whether to proceed with plans for two Broadway musical-sized halls, together budgeted for at least $594 million.
August 25, 2025Bob Hicks
As federal arts and cultural money dries up, the annual grants from the Oregon Community Foundation allow 14 artists and groups to create their dream projects.
August 24, 2025
In spite of city budget cuts to Parks & Recreation, a broad coalition of foundation, individual donors, and other sponsors allowed the free show to go on.
August 22, 2025Jim Redden
Musicians and City Council members are pushing for city aid in keeping clubs and music venues healthy that play a big role in prompting visitors and locals to keep the money flowing.
August 6, 2025Jim Redden
A federal judge rules that DOGE and the administration did not have a right to claw back money from the National Endowment for the Humanities that had already been approved by Congress.
August 4, 2025Jim Redden
The lawsuit, arguing that the canceling of federal grants previously approved by Congress is illegal, is heard in a Portland U.S. court. A decision might come next week.
August 1, 2025Bob Hicks
The shutdown, pushed by the Trump Administration and Congress, cuts funding to National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, and threatens regional affliates including OPB and All Classical Radio.
August 1, 2025Jim Redden
The Oregon council's suit, which goes to federal court in Portland beginning Aug. 4, comes as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, also targeted by Trump, announces it will be forced to shut down next year.
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