Donate

Ways to Donate To OICF:

• Check made payable to the “Oregon Independent College Foundation”
• Donate securely online at www.oicf.org using your Visa, MasterCard, or American Express
• Donation of Stock or Appreciated Securities
• Corporate Matching Funds: Check with your employer to see if this giving opportunity is available.
• Heritage Society (Planned Gifts): The OICF encourages friends of independent higher education to consider including the “Oregon Independent College Foundation Inc., Portland Oregon,” as beneficiary of a will, insurance plan, trust, or retirement plan.

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Key Funding Opportunities:

Investments in OICF make an impact on the lives of Oregon’s future business and community leaders.  With a comprehensive menu of program options, tax-deductible contributions to the OICF can be directed to the areas of greatest need including student scholarships, student aid, campus diversity, and ethics and leadership, among other options.

• Areas of Greatest Need

  OICF’s ten leading colleges and Universities enroll 24,000 students annually. With faculty to student ratios that average 12:1, the personalized education experience offered by the OICF colleges has produced scores of thoughtful leaders for generations.

  Your investment in independent higher education yields high returns: for the 2007-08 academic year, 24,250 bachelor and postgraduate degrees were awarded from all Oregon institutions of higher education, including both private and public institutions. The ten OICF member colleges and universities awarded nearly 25% of these. Our graduates, equipped with professional skills and honed capacities to reason, communicate and solve problems, provide the leadership and creativity that current business and community leaders hail as the hope and promise for continuing leadership in an evolving and challenging world.

• Ethics

  Meaningful investment in programs, such as the Ethics Bowl that encourage discourse about ethics, leadership, and personal character aligns with the priorities of the OICF and the member colleges, and provides substantial opportunities for thoughtful young people from the colleges to interact and openly discuss real world ethical issues and dilemmas with top business and community leaders from across the region.  This dialogue is critically important as these young people become the next generation of community leaders.

• Named Scholarships

  22 Named Scholarships programs will be administered through the OICF in the upcoming academic year.  The solid commitment of Named Scholarship donors prevails as a model of partnership that pays tribute to the value of connecting students; business partners and our campuses while providing much needed financial aid to deserving students.

• Oregon Scholars Fund

  Each year there are many Oregon high school graduates who wish to attend one of the state’s leading private colleges and universities but lack the financial resources.  To address this urgent need, the OICF created the Oregon Scholars Fund to provide these deserving students the financial assistance they need to attend an OICF institution.

• Pathways to Leadership – Campus Diversity

  OICF is expanding its efforts this year by launching the POWER of 10/The Oregon Private College Access & Success Network.  Network participants from the community and our campuses will work collaboratively to advance outreach, retention, and scholarship/student aid programs for students of color and first generation students.

• OICF/CASA of Oregon – MESA College Initiative

  Our newest financial assistance program is a powerful collaboration with CASA of Oregon designed to create access to post-secondary education for low-income Oregonians through incorporation of matched savings accounts into the service stream of Oregon’s leading independent colleges and universities.  Income eligible students attending an OICF school have their custodial savings matched 5:1 by federal, state, and OICF funds in a program that features career, educational, and financial planning and mentoring.  Full details of this program are available by visiting www.oicf.org and www.mesaoregon.org.