Community Engagement Partners
Oregon Water Futures Project was formed by the Coalition of Communities of Color, University of Oregon, Oregon Environmental Council, and Willamette Partnership to elevate water priorities from communities currently underrepresented or historically discriminated against in water policy decision-making, particularly Native, people of color, migrant, and low-income communities. Learn more about these organizations and the project partners who made this work possible.
Oregon Water Futures Team
Coalition of Communities of Color
The Coalition of Communities of Color's mission is to address the socioeconomic disparities, institutional racism, and inequity of services experienced by our families, children and communities; and to organize our communities for collective action resulting in social change to obtain self-determination, wellness, justice, and prosperity.
Verde
Verde serves communities by building environmental wealth through social enterprise, outreach, and advocacy.
Since 2005, Verde has brought new environmental investments to Portland’s neighborhoods, involved community members in the planning and building of these investments, and ensured that low-income people and people of color directly benefited from the investments.
University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department
The University of Oregon department of Ethnic studies pursues the abolition of white supremacy through generating scholarship and creative expression, fostering community, and providing students with the intellectual tools to help fulfill their potential as historical actors creating a more just world.
Oregon Environmental Council
Founded in 1968, Oregon Environmental Council is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to advancing innovative, collaborative, and equitable solutions to Oregon’s environmental challenges for today and future generations.
Willamette Partnership
Willamette Partnership is a conservation nonprofit with a deep commitment to helping build stronger, healthier, and more equitable communities that are sustained through nature.
Oregon Water Futures Partners
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)
Today, we [PCUN] are building a strong network of integrated Latinx organizations so that we can be more effective in achieving our goal: to give Latinx communities tools to influence policy in ways that will improve their lives for the better.
Chinook Indian Nation
The Chinook Indian Nation is made up of the five western-most Chinookan speaking tribes at the mouth of the Columbia River. Our nearly 70-year-old constitution codifies who we are and identifies our five constituent tribes – the Clatsop and Cathlamet (Kathlamet) of present-day Oregon and the Lower Chinook, Wahkiakum (Waukikum) and Willapa (Weelappa) of what is now Washington State.
NAACP Eugene-Springfield
The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.
EUVALCREE
EUVALCREE’s Primary Goal: Develop the social capital and leadership capacity of community members. The organization has developed a strong networking and community infrastructure that allows the organization to communicate and organize grass-roots community members in significant ways.
As an emerging and growing community and advocacy organization it is important to stay true to its grassroots origins. It is the deep connection and roots within the community that truly sets this young nonprofit apart.
Unite Oregon
Led by people of color, immigrants and refugees, rural communities, and people experiencing poverty, we work across Oregon to build a unified intercultural movement for justice.
Unite Oregon represents over 13,000 supporters and members across Oregon.