Mission

The Partnership’s mission is “to bring innovative, long-term solutions to poverty.”

We pursue this mission by convening, collaborating, supporting, and advocating on behalf of a wide range of partners from all sectors. In the process, we identify gaps and leverage resources to the mutual benefit of our region’s low-income citizens.   

Vision

We see a Central Oregon:
• Whose people are organized and empowered to actively shape the civic, social, political and economic life of their communities.
• Whose public institutions, business community, faith-based institutions and nonprofit sector collaborate to build pathways to prosperity for all residents.
• Where all residents, regardless of their income level, have a voice and advocate in their local, county, and state political processes.
• With a reputation for its skilled, well-educated population, its living-wage jobs, its innovative public policies and its healthy, vibrant communities.
• Where investment capital and social capital are accessible to culturally isolated populations resulting in greater economic mobility.
• Where all residents have a fair chance to live free of poverty.

We see the Partnership to End Poverty:
• As a social entrepreneurial nonprofit organization whose business, and passion, is effecting systemic and positive change for low-income people.
• As a convener, broker, and organizer of governments, businesses and organizations who want to help low-income people.
• As the hub of the region’s governments, businesses and organizations who share the common goal of creating a sustainable prosperity for all