In 2024, Centurion freed its 71st innocent client, Jose Carrion, from prison in the Bronx, NY; Mr. Carrion spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. On August 1, he was released into the loving arms of his family and is working on rebuilding his life post-release, including marrying his high school sweetheart in December of 2024. We are currently working on behalf of 20 innocent individuals who remain wrongfully imprisoned.

 Continuing our efforts to help the community we serve, identify and manage the PTSD they experience as a result of their wrongful incarceration, Centurion hosted its 3rd Annual Exoneree Retreat in April of 2024. We gathered 21 freed clients to spend 3 days in Princeton, NJ to work with practitioners in a variety of modalities that are proven to help people manage PTSD. We look forward to our 4th Annual Retreat in April of this year.

Finally, Centurion Founder Jim McCloskey, and Board Member John Grisham released their NY Times best selling book, Framed, highlighting 10 stories of wrongful conviction, and shining a much needed light on the crisis of wrongful conviction across the country.

We are a team of volunteers who travel to Guatemala annually and provide free medical care to the citizens. Half of our volunteers are medical professionals, including general practitioners, surgeons, dentists, and nurses. The other half, “Helpers,” serve as translators and assist the medical professionals.

For one week a year, we take over a school or military base that we turn into a temporary hospital, as we go more remotely into areas where there are no hospitals. While there, we will see about 1,000 patients in the clinic for wellness checkups, general ailments, and dental issues. On average, our surgical staff will perform 135 surgeries, such as gallbladder removals, tubal ligations, and hernias. When the size of our team allows, we also send an outreach team into a local village so people who don’t have access to transportation can see a clinic doctor or a dentist.

In 2024, we did 138 life changing surgeries in 4 1/2 days! We did more gynecological surgeries than any other year and there were quite a few cleft lip/palates and large neck masses.

Rogue Farm Corps is a statewide organization, reaching 15 counties through three regional chapters. We train and support beginning farmers and ranchers. In 2024, we served 335 beginning farmers and ranchers. Our newest Regenerative Farming Fellowship program, which provides paid on-farm training for entry-level farmers in the Rogue Valley, produced 14,000 pounds of fresh produce for 3,387 low-income families in Jackson County. RFC envisions a world in which land is deeply cared for, power is equitably shared, and farms, ranches, and the people who work them flourish.

Each year, Rose Haven hosts dozens of community celebrations for our guests, creating meaningful moments to connect, celebrate, and focus on more than just survival. From International Women's Day and the PRIDE Party to the Harvest Meal of Gratitude and the Kids Holiday Gift Giveaway, these gatherings foster joy and community. Thanks to our mental health team, we’ve also integrated more trauma-informed care into these events, ensuring they are not only festive but also supportive and healing, while creating more accessible opportunities to socialize and engage.

The Eagle Valley Community Foundation (EVCF) works passionately to provide responsive solutions that meet the most critical and emerging needs of those working or living in the Eagle River Valley.

The Community Market’s (TCM) is a signature project of EVCF with a goal to provide low-income communities with access to free, healthy food as well as to prevent food from going to waste. Their work strives to “provide good food at the heart of our community.” The three pillars that guide their work: Healthy People, Strong Communities, and Environmental Sustainability.

The Community Market helps reduce the overall community carbon footprint by reducing food waste and recovering excess fresh food from local grocers, farmers, schools, events, and restaurants. The TCM team also addresses food insecurity and ensures that donated and rescued produce have an entire lifecycle when used through the Foundation. TCM’s three-step process focuses on first feeding people, then feeding animals (as farmers pick up food scraps at The Community Markets) and finally, composting and converting food waste to build nutrient rich soil for community use.

The Keala Foundation has had the privilege of providing 1,150 youth prevention fitness classes, 48 Youth Engagement events, and 3 early intervention programs with an alumni program (19 total youth) all around the island of Kauai. We serve over 400 families through the various events, classes, and programs we offer year round, all FREE for kids.

The objective of the Keala to Success Early Intervention Program (KSEIP) is to intervene early on with any type of addictive or negative behaviors to prevent continued substance use and potential substance use disorder as adults. This is a 30 day intervention program right on the Southside of Kauai, currently serving teen males ages 12-18, and is free for all participants.

Through the support of the Harbourton Foundation we are proud to serve the families on Kauai as well as grow our infrastructure. We finished our location in Anahola, providing the most at risk town on Kauai a home for a healthy environment to breed.

We gathered over 1500 people for the 10th annual Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run fundraising event to create awareness of drug, alcohol, suicide problems on Kauai to encourage the community that they are the solution by providing for our youth programs.

Path Home empowers homeless families with children to get back into housing - and stay there. Every year, Path Home serves more than 500 families in the Portland area per year across all programs including Family Village Emergency Shelter, Rapid Re-housing, Homeless Prevention, and Basic Income.

The innovative, trauma-informed design of Path Home’s Family Village shelter provides families with children opportunities for playing, healing, and rebuilding while also providing a wide range of services and support to move families back into housing. Families say that the care, compassion, and dignity they experience working with Path Home are what propel them to get up every day and do the hard work to make changes their lives for the better. Path Home’s model is working: 96% of families who stay in shelter at Family Village move into housing compared to 50% or less at the average Portland shelter.

Walking Mountains Science Center staff and board have been focused on our equity efforts within the community. This past year our board of directors made the decision to eliminate fees for our Field Science Programs in public schools. This has been an important step in our efforts to make natural science and sustainability education accessible to all members of our community. Additionally, Walking Mountains continues to lead a collaborative effort working to break down barriers for underrepresented groups in accessing the outdoors. Currently, we are partnering with 20 organizations to provide shared outdoor experiences for people of all ages, abilities and cultures free of charge.

Outside the Bowl is dedicated to alleviating hunger and malnourishment in children. They pack and ship over 150,000 VitaKidz nutritious meals every day to areas in need. This year, after the earthquake in Haiti, Outside the Bowl provided over 87,000 hot meals to those in need. In South Africa, they distributed 38,000 meals by private airplane while roads were blocked by riots.

They opened a long-awaited Super Kitchen in Juarez Mexico and also completed the first production run of Wow Bar!, a new tool in fighting hunger that is ready-to-eat and easy to distribute. Outside the Bowl continues to establish Instant Meal Distribution Centers, which will lead to more ministry partnerships to help provide meals in remote areas of Guatamala, the Domican Republic, and Haiti.

In June, Central City Concern opened Cedar Commons, their first housing development offering clinical services and supports for people facing unique and complex mental health needs. The voices of clients experiencing homelessness informed the service delivery model at Cedar Commons, which features supportive on-site staff, opportunities for community-building and even communal gardening boxes.