The Oregon Community Foundation
Jerry Tischleder is an experienced arts and culture professional currently serving as the Senior Program Officer at The Oregon Community Foundation since July 2018, where responsibilities include leading statewide arts initiatives and implementing strategies to enhance Oregon’s creative potential. As the Founding Director of Risk/Reward since 2008, Jerry established a festival that supports innovative artists in the performing arts. Previously, in roles at Artists Repertory Theatre from 2014 to 2018, Jerry developed the ArtsHub program and curated the Frontier Series. Additional experience includes co-creating and touring original works with Hand2Mouth Theatre, managing Latin America product development at Avanti Destinations, and focusing on employee development at Rail Europe. Jerry holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Curatorial Practice in Performance from Wesleyan University and a Bachelor's degree in Theater and Business Management from Saint John's University.
The Oregon Community Foundation
The mission of Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives for all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy. OCF works with individuals, families, businesses and organizations to create charitable funds to support the community causes they care about. Through these funds, in 2020 OCF awarded more than $230 million in grants and scholarships. Thousands of citizens have created a permanent endowment for Oregon through OCF – an endowment that will help Oregonians today and for generations to come. Who We Are: OCF's endowment come from thousands of Oregonians who have invested with us to help our state. OCF manages more than 3,000 individual funds of various sizes. From these funds, grants are distributed to support the critical work that nonprofit organizations are doing around Oregon. OCF is governed by a volunteer board of directors. They provide leadership to the Foundation and have the responsibility to ensure that the endowment is managed in an efficient, thoughtful way. We rely on more than 1,600 local volunteers who give us deep-rooted knowledge of community needs. Our professional staff helps donors realize their charitable goals and nonprofit organizations become stronger. What We Do: The Oregon Community Foundation is committed to improving life and uniting Oregonians through philanthropy. Thanks to thousands of donors and hundreds of individual funds, OCF is the leader in Oregon philanthropy, strengthening communities across the state.