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Diversability, Inc. Creates Connection for Those With Disabilities

Local “Happyning Hub” offers fun, friendship and personal growth

by Nicole Vulcan November 5, 2025

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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Opinion

If Feeding the Hungry Isn’t Big Government’s Role, Show Us Whose Role It Is

As nonprofits struggle to fill the gaps left from federal funding cuts, individuals are supposed to step in. Are you?

by The Source Editorial Board November 4, 2025

As we write this, one in eight Americans is living in an existential limbo. Monday was the deadline for the Trump Administration to say whether it would follow the rule of law and comply with a judge’s order to release emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — a lifeline for a vast contingent […]

News

A Half-Mil and Counting

The Source and What If We Could’s giving program raises more than $580k for local nonprofits

Nicole VulcanJanuary 7, 2020August 16, 2023

In years past, the Source Weekly’s Give Guide helped local nonprofits get the word out about the work they’re doing in the community. But this year, the program went one giant step further by partnering with What If We Could and adding a digital giving component, CentralOregonGives.com, in which people could donate directly to any […]

Opinion

It’s Time to Give!

A note from our publisher on a special program

The Source StaffNovember 6, 2019November 10, 2024

Here at the Source Weekly, we’ve been publishing our Central Oregon Give Guide, in its current form, for the past six years. It’s been a helpful compendium of local nonprofits, with a description of their services and their year-end needs. This year, with the help of Rys Fairbrother and his online platform, WhatIfWeCould.com, we decided […]

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