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Navigating a Sober World 

New Each Morning provides women the support needed after a recovery program
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Gina has been fighting alcohol addiction for decades.   “I realized, wow, I’m drinking to get drunk. I’m drinking to black out,” she says. She was arrested four times within 10 years for driving under the influence, resulting in her losing her driver’s license for 10 years. She spent time in jail, lost several jobs, even tried rehab —which didn’t work. Her mother, daughters and […]

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Hope by the Plateful

Family Kitchen has provided daily warm meals and “sanctuary” to hungry Central Oregonians since 1986
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On Halloween Day, the bustle of the Family Kitchen was at peak crescendo during lunch time. Eighties club music mixed with the clack of utensils as two dozen diners spread across rows of communal tables. A father and young child played Scrabble while noshing on homemade pizza squares. Others spooned chili, sipped coffee and chatted. […]

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Diversability, Inc. Creates Connection for Those With Disabilities

Local “Happyning Hub” offers fun, friendship and personal growth
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The first thing to know about Diversability: Its name is the word the nonprofit would prefer people use when referring to those with varying disabilities. “Disability” refers to something someone cannot do, while “diversability” indicates that someone’s abilities are, instead, diverse. The founding of Diversability, Inc was a labor of love. Founder Amanda Hamer started […]

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Stories from Central Oregon Gives

In honor of this week’s Give Guide, the Source team spent some time exploring the stories of a few local nonprofits
by The Source Staff

The Source Weekly’s Central Oregon Gives campaign is now live! Here are a few stories from our newsroom staff, about some of the nonprofits taking part in the campaign. Support for Students Who Learn Differently: Samara Learning Center offers support for students experiencing challenges in learning Helping Houseless Animals, and People, Too: Companion Animal Medical […]

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Give Guide 2021

Our annual giving program offers you incredible ways to help Central Oregon
by The Source Staff

Every year, the Source Weekly teams up with local nonprofits to launch a massive giving campaign. Supporting their work is important all year round, but it’s at the end of the year, with holidays upon us and tax time looming, that many people take to donating in earnest. This year’s Give Guide features 80+ nonprofits, […]

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Redmond’s First Permanent Shelter Nears Completion

Bethlehem Inn’s Project Turnkey motel conversion has been a community-wide effort
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A statewide program that converts old motels into shelters for people without homes was a novel idea for many Oregonians when it debuted during the pandemic—but Bethlehem Inn has been in that business for quite some time. The nonprofit turned a motel on the old Highway 97 in Bend into a shelter in 2007, bringing a […]

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A Marked Increase in Need

With more need for services and an increase in the level of violence, Saving Grace has been hard at work during the pandemic
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It’s been an intense couple of years at Saving Grace. Domestic violence cases went up nationwide during the pandemic, and those numbers bear out in Central Oregon, too. The year 2020 brought a record number of domestic violence cases in Deschutes County, said Saving Grace Executive Director Cassi MacQueen. And based on law enforcement data, […]

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More than Just Child Care

MountainStar Family Relief Nursery offers needed services for families on the margins
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Mention child care in Central Oregon and someone is bound to remark about the vast shortage of available spots for kids in the area. The advent of the pandemic only made that shortage more acute, with some of the region’s most vulnerable families forced to put kids in less-than-ideal care, to stay home and face […]

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Central Oregon Give Guide 2020 ▶ [With Video]

Our annual giving program offers you 75 incredible ways to help Central Oregon
The Source Staff

Central Oregon Gives is pleased to announce the success of their annual giving campaign, that ended with $704,000 raised for over 75 nonprofits! Central Oregon Gives set their sights on a goal to raise $500,000 dollars for area nonprofits before the end of 2020. What If We Could’s Rys Fairbrother and Source Weekly Publisher Aaron […]

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