AFN’s network of grantmakers—private, public, corporate, and community foundations—invest in policies, programs, changes in practices as well as financial products as tools to confront the roots of inequities and create change. We view the concept of assets broadly to include issues such as health, employment, business ownership, housing, post-secondary education, and public and private debt. In this way, AFN accounts for multiple interrelated dimensions of assets for the household as well as community and intergenerational family wealth.
In Oregon, the Asset Funders Network regional chapter, also known as, the Oregon Economic Justice Roundtable, currently includes Neighborhood Partnerships, Native American Youth and Family Center, Coalition of Communities of Color and the Institute for Community Health as well as funder members co-creating a shared table of funders and advocates and other nonprofit organizations to advance collective, sustained action for racial and economic justice. The Roundtable continues the conversation started during a 2020 conference Racial and Economic Justice from the Ground Up: A Virtual Roundtable for Oregon Leaders.
Are you an Oregon grantmaker interested in joining OEJR? Contact Annette Case annette@assetfunders.org to learn more.
Are you an Oregon community organization interested in OEJR? Contact Ethan Livermore elivermore@neighborhoodpartnerships.org to learn more.
We ask funders to support OEJR through their AFN membership and additional grants to OEJR for efforts such as capacity or narrative change. We recognize that most grantmaking organizations are considered dominant institutions. While there are no other requirements to join OEJR, we ask those interested in joining to understand expectations for membership as described in the Equity Guidelines for Dominant Institutions and join the roundtable in the spirit in which it was created. The guidelines outline OEJR operations, equity principles, and actions members can take to advance the work of OEJR.
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