Category Nonprofits
A smaller truck will help Salem Harvest become a bigger organization
Salem Harvest’s existing truck, Sunflower, carries a load of apples. (Courtesy/Salem Harvest) Elise Bauman is hoping to get a truck for Christmas. Bauman, the executive director of Salem Harvest, said the organization badly needs a smaller vehicle to help gather and transport berries and other…
Salem’s YMCA launches final push to raise $3 million in 90 days
Construction at the Family YMCA of Marion and Polk Counties building in downtown Salem on Nov. 16, 2021. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) It’s been four years since Salem’s YMCA received its first state funds to help the nonprofit replace its century-old building. In the time since,…
UGM more than doubles space to get men off Salem’s streets
Michael Little, 41, sits on his bed at the Union Gospel Mission’s new mission at 777 Commercial Street N.E. on July 27, 2021 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Michael Little has good memories of his time at the Union Gospel Mission shelter in downtown Salem. But the…
Preschool program now part of YMCA’s new building thanks to $4 million from legislature
Construction continues at the site of the new downtown YMCA in Salem on Friday, July 9, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) When Tim Sinatra learned dozens of Salem child care providers closed their doors permanently in 2020, he wanted to help. Sinatra, CEO of the Family…
Foundation leader reflects on 25 years of helping Salem churches practice what they preach
If you ask Sam Skillern to take his photo, he’ll suggest meeting you outside Salem First United Methodist Church. Skillern doesn’t have a particular tie to the congregation. But its location – at the intersection of Church and State streets – sums up how Skillern…
Salem nonprofit will preserve hundreds of rare WWII interviews with help of state grant
Terry Scott (left), the executive director of the B-17 Alliance Foundation, with a group of veterans at Salem’s KMUZ radio station. (Courtesy/Terry Scott) When your business has a B-17 Flying Fortress, a hulking WWII-era aircraft, mounted in your parking lot, you tend to attract a…
Meals on Wheels looking for distribution hubs in south, west Salem
Charlotte Dehut accepts a delivery from Meals on Wheels volunteer Charles Schaer on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem’s Meals on Wheels added hundreds of clients during the Covid pandemic as public gathering places closed, and the City’s seniors and disabled adults retreated…
Years in the making, the foundation is being built for Salem’s new YMCA
Construction workers work at the site of the new YMCA facility on the corner of Court Street NE and Cottage Street NE on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) When Timothy Sinatra sent out a fundraising appeal late last year to supporters of the YMCA…
Cloth diaper kits are ready and waiting for Salem families through the Salem Cloth Project
Kaileigh Westermann-Lewis sews cloth diapers at her Salem home on Feb. 9 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) A closet in the attic of a Salem home contains shelves packed with cloth diapers, inserts and wipes. Organizers of the Salem Cloth Project are ready to give these supplies…