North Coast’s Consejo Hispano awarded $1 million grant

The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation, a private family foundation based in Wilsonville, Oregon, has awarded a three-year $1 million grant to Consejo Hispano. The “unrestricted” grant is in recognition of the Latinx-led organization’s “more than two decades of community-rooted leadership on Oregon’s North Coast.” The award was announced on Thursday, Nov. 5. The Consejo Hispano organization works with youth, women and families in rural Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook counties to help people build stability and intergenerational wealth, exercise leadership and remain connected to their culture. “Consejo Hispano cares deeply for its community, and you can see that care in how its team listens, responds, advocates and creates spaces where people feel safe and know they belong,” said Tyler Hobbs, president of the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation. “At a moment when Latinx families across the North Coast are facing heightened fear and uncertainty, this funding is especially timely.

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