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Funding Rural: A podcast that explores how philanthropy can better serve rural and Indigenous communities. Join host Erin Borla, Executive Director of the Roundhouse Foundation in Sisters, Oregon, as she engages with folks on all sides of philanthropy to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing funders and the folks they hope to serve and support.
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- 1 weeks ago32 min
Erin Nunes: Fighting Fire Like a Girl
Erin Nunes is a Battalion Chief with the Lebanon Fire District, which covers a 450 square mile area south of Salem, Oregon. Women like Erin make up just 5 percent of paid firefighters in the country. Erin started the Young Women’s Fire Academy which brings girls together to build confidence and learn about fighting fire and all the career opportunities that can come with those skills. Rural fire districts face a unique set of challenges, with a stagnant tax system and rising equipment and personnel costs.
- 2 weeks ago43 min
Savannah Barrett: Stories Build Relationships
Savannah Barrett’s deep Kentucky roots have guided her entire career. She’s the Exchange Director for Art of the Rural, a nonprofit that uses creative connection and storytelling to build relationships and bridge divides between urban and rural communities. She co-founded the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange and she’s joined together with others from her community to buy a historic property, the Grayson Springs Inn, and restore it as a cherished community space.
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Cory Carman: Supporting Innovation in Ranching
More than 95 percent of American beef cattle spend the end of their lives eating grain in feed lots. It’s an easy way to get them fat faster. However, a growing number of ranchers like Eastern Oregonian Cory Carman, of Carman Ranch and Carman Ranch Provisions, are finding alternatives. She is a fourth generation rancher who is thinking differently about the beef system and is offering grassfed beef to markets across the Pacific Northwest. Carmen encourages philanthropy to come alongside ranchers and to support alternatives to the mainstream food systems.
- Oct 6, 202632 min
Gov. Tom Vilsak: A Career in Office Serving Rural Folks
Governor Tom Vilsack started out as a small-town lawyer, then mayor, and went on to serve as governor of Iowa for 8 years. He ran the US Department of Agriculture under President Obama and President Biden. Gov. Vilsack is now the CEO of the World Food Prize, which presents an annual award of $500,000 to individuals who have increased the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world. During his time as Secretary of the USDA, he called on the philanthropic community to step up to the plate and provide more funding for rural communities.
- Sep 29, 202642 min
JT Flowers: Coming Home to Build Community
Rhodes Scholar, lifelong Portlander, and community visionary JT Flowers draws the parallels between urban and rural communities. Born and raised in NE Portland’s historic Black neighborhood, the Albina District, Flowers recently served as Senior Advisor and Director of Government Affairs at Albina Vision Trust, the largest community-led redevelopment effort in America. The Trust was created to buy back land, rebuild community, and reestablish a prosperous Black neighborhood in the heart of Portland’s central city.
- Sep 29, 202630 min
Mel Butterfield: Promoting Hope
Mel Butterfield asks, ‘if adults aren’t modeling healthy behaviors, why does it surprise us when youth behavior suffers?’ She is a fourth-generation Central Oregonian and the director of Central Oregon YouthLine, a peer-to-peer crisis, help and support line nationally available. Young people don’t always want to talk to adults when it comes to their mental health, so YouthLine is staffed by young people who have gone through training to support their peers. They say “It’s OK to not be OK” - because we all need to talk about mental health more. Youth experiencing a crisis can call 877-968-8491 or text "teen2teen" to 83983.
- Sep 29, 202639 min
Rev. Dr. Ryan M. Eller: Action is the Oxygen of Organizing
Rev. Dr. Ryan M. Eller is a ninth-generation Appalachian who deeply understands his region—and where generations of their wealth went. As Executive Director of Appalachia Funders Network, Eller leads a coalition of more than 80 funders who are committed to socio-economic transition in Central Appalachia. Eller began his career in community organizing and wishes more funders had that valuable experience, which taught him that thoughtful action is the oxygen needed to effect change and help remedy longstanding issues.
- Sep 22, 20262 min
Here comes Season 4!
We're back with a new season of Funding Rural! This fall, we bring you more fresh, heartfelt conversations about philanthropy and how it can better serve rural and Indigenous communities. The folks you'll hear this season will showcase the power of local work and investing in the grassroots organizations that are making systemic change from the ground up.
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Funding Rural: A podcast that explores how philanthropy can better serve rural and Indigenous communities. Join host Erin Borla, Executive Director of the Roundhouse Foundation in Sisters, Oregon, as she engages with folks on all sides of philanthropy to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing funders and the folks they hope to serve and support.
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