Oregon Humanities is committed to bringing people together across difference. Each year, Oregon Humanities offers hundreds of public conversations and programs across the state, trains and supports dozens of discussion leaders, and awards tens of thousands of dollars in grants to organizations that, like us, believe in the power of people in rooms listening, learning, and struggling together.

The Oregon Broadband Advisory Council (OBAC) and a Broadband Advisory Council Fund were created in the 2009 Legislative session to help ensure the implementation of statewide broadband strategies.

Ensuring the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating racial hatred and discrimination.

Offices of United States Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).

At the 2018 DIN Summit in Portland, Senator Ron Wyden shared inspiration and vision in a video message to Summit participants. Senator Wyden is a longstanding advocate for a free and open internet - he wrote the first Senate net neutrality bill in 2006, ensuring everybody can access the internet and the information on it. 

As directed by Oregon voters in 1984, the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board (CUB) represents the interests of Oregon’s residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. CUB works at the intersection of utility policy and regulation to develop innovative solutions, empower consumers, and engage stakeholders around utility issues that affect Oregonians.

Led by people of color, immigrants and refugees, rural communities, and people experiencing poverty, Unite Oregon works across Oregon to build a unified intercultural movement for justice.

Unite Oregon represents the merger of two strong organizations – Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO) and Oregon Action (OA) – who together have decades of experience organizing immigrants, refugees, people of color, and low-income Oregonians to address racial and economic disparities and improve quality of life in our state.

Through the Office for Community Technology (OCT), the City of Portland, along with Multnomah County Library, is tasked with overseeing Digital Equity Action Plan (DEAP) implementation. A primary responsibility and commitment is to foster and engage partnerships and community efforts that align with DEAP goals. 

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance is a unified voice for home broadband access, public broadband access, personal devices and local technology training and support programs. NDIA works collaboratively to craft, identify and disseminate financial and operational resources for digital inclusion programs while serving as a bridge to policymakers and the general public.

As directed by Oregon voters in 1984, the Oregon Citizens' Utility Board (CUB) represents the interests of Oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies.