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Dougy Center, the first place of its kind in the country, has been helping grieving children in Portland since 1982. It supports more than 2,500 children, teens and caregivers a year, and none of it costs a family anything.^{1, 2}

• 1Dougy Center, What We Do.
• 2Dougy Center, Mission & History.

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in adults under 50, and three out of four of those cases are caught late. Screening is meant to start at 45, but only 37 percent of people aged 45 to 49 have had it. The Alliance works on both: getting people screened on time, and standing beside the ones already diagnosed.^{1, 2}

• 1American Cancer Society, Rectal Cancer Incidence Rising as Colorectal Cancer Shifts Toward Younger Generations, 2026.
• 2Colorectal Cancer Alliance, colorectalcancer.org.

Four firefighters died working the Gore and Knowles fires in Colorado this summer, and in July a helicopter pilot was killed fighting the Gold Mountain fire near Ouray. The Foundation is the one that shows up for families like these, paying for the funeral, the medical bills and the travel at the moment a household has lost both a person and a paycheck.^{1, 2, 3}

• 1Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, Knowles Fire Entrapment 2026.
• 2CPR News, Canadian man identified as helicopter pilot killed while fighting Gold Mountain fire, July 13, 2026.
• 3Wildland Firefighter Foundation, Programs.

The conflict in Iran left hospitals short of fuel and medicine, and delayed the flights that aid normally travels on. We gave to Direct Relief because it was already there, with more than $100 million in medical aid delivered across the Middle East in the past year through local partners and stocked warehouses.^{1, 2}

• 1Direct Relief, Escalating Middle East Conflict Strains Health Systems and Disrupts Humanitarian Supply Routes, March 2026.
• 2Al Jazeera, Aid groups bidding to boost relief shipments into Iran, April 14, 2026.

DNA testing has helped clear more than 600 wrongly convicted people since 1989, over 200 of them Innocence Project clients. The Project takes those cases on and pays for the testing itself, work that runs for years and costs far more than a prisoner could ever raise.¹

• 1Innocence Project, Five Facts About DNA Testing and Wrongful Convictions, 2026.

Homelessness hit a record 771,480 people in 2024, and Community Solutions’ analysis showed the count finally leveling off the year after. They help more than 160 towns and cities keep a list of every homeless person by name, updated monthly, because you cannot fix a problem you cannot count.¹

• 1Community Solutions, New analysis shows U.S. homeless numbers have flattened.

The share of students missing a tenth or more of the school year nearly doubled between 2018 and 2022, to 28 percent. Communities in Schools puts a coordinator inside the school whose whole job is to find out why one particular child keeps missing school, and then do something about it.^{1, 2}

• 1Learning Policy Institute, Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Lessons From Community Schools.
• 2Communities in Schools, Our Model. "Site coordinators work daily inside schools to ensure students are present in school and ready to learn."

In 2026 Oregon raised its hotel lodging tax by just over one percent, which puts about $38 million a year into fish, wildlife and habitat. Money like that only appears when someone is at the state capitol asking for it, and that is what the Coalition does for the local nonprofits that protect land.¹

• 1Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts, What Happened in the 2026 Oregon Legislative Session. H.B. 4134.