Heart of Oregon Corps supports young people ages 16-24 to transform their lives and their communities through training, certifications, and service. We've graduated more than 5,000 workforce-ready youth since our founding in 2000, with a focus on construction, childcare and conservation.
These young people are our local solution to solving three of our region’s greatest challenges:
- Housing affordability
- Childcare shortage
- Wildfire risk reduction
For 25 years, we've stretched aging, borrowed service spaces across the region as far we can go.
Now we're asking you to help us raise the final $2.5 million to build a central campus in Redmond to answer the growing demand for our programs and to support underserved youth to thrive.
It’s time. Our region needs a workforce development campus for youth and young adults—for the benefit of us all.
- Prepare our workforce. Our region needs a workforce development campus to prepare youth people on the workforce track with the hard and soft skills employers need today.
- Support all youth to thrive. Empowering young people to be self-sufficient through education and job training is key to creating an engaged, contributing, and successful generation that will lead us into the future.
- Strengthen rural communities. The new campus will remain strongly connected to HOC satellite sites across Central Oregon with transportation for rural youth to work-training, services and a community of their peers from other cities.
- Accommodate our growth. The demand for workforce and CTE trainings has increased dramatically, but our current facilities can't keep up with our expanded programs.
- Create the local pipeline of solutions. Our youth are on the front lines of reducing wildfire risk, building affordable housing and reducing the childcare shortage. This campus answers our need for a trained workforce to address our most complex problems.
- The 3.4 acre, $7.3 million campus will support existing programs and give us room to grow trainings, certifications, and youth-support services
- The campus will feature youth-centered cultural elements and trauma-informed design that create a sense of belonging, camaraderie and an inspiring place to learn
- A new 6,600 central Campus Center building will offer classrooms, offices and meeting spaces
- A renovation of an existing 14,000 square foot training warehouse will become the go-to place for hands-on workshops and trainings
- Enclosing six equipment bays across 10,000 square feet that will provide space for special projects and housing for HOC’s large equipment inventory
- An amenity-filled courtyard will give youth places to gather for events or quiet moments of reflection and study
- Connections to small satellite sites for rural youth will ensure everyone is able to participate
We've raised $4.7 million so far!
Thank you to our generous funders:
- Autzen Foundation
- Collins Foundation
- Clark Family Foundation
- Crevier Family Foundation
- Deschutes County
- First Interstate Bank Foundation
- Hayden Homes
- Healy Foundation
- Marie Lamfrom Foundation
- Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
- MJ Murdock Charitable Trust
- PGE Foundation
- Roundhouse Foundation
- State of Oregon
- The Bend Foundation
Funding Support
- $25
- $250
- $2,500
- $25,000
- $250,000
GIVE NOW AND HAVE YOUR GIFT UP TO $100,000 DOUBLED BY THE MAYBELLE CLARK MACDONALD FUND!
