The Oregon Innovation Foundation leverages innovation, tech, and community engagement to build a better society that serves all communities. Our actions produce transformative change, foster collaboration, and empower individuals and communities, promoting equity and creating sustainable, resilient neighborhoods.

Strategic Focus #1: Empowering Individuals and Communities through Connectivity and Education

This aims to build robust, inclusive innovation and technology networks across cities, regions, states, and communities while equipping individuals with essential digital skills. By connecting people and organizations and enhancing digital literacy, we seek to cultivate an inclusive innovation culture. The potential outcome is a more diverse ecosystem of innovators, increased number and participant diversity, increased collaboration across typical boundaries, and increased digital literacy rates.

Strategic Focus #2: Advancing Public and Community Innovation with Technology Solutions

This aims to foster community-based innovation by leveraging the potential of technology to tackle public challenges. By tapping into collective intelligence and technologies, we aspire to generate solutions that enhance public services, community engagement, and resilience. Potential outcomes include innovative problem-solving, amplified public involvement, and tech-enabled public services and community ability to work together to resolve climate, disaster, and other environmental challenges quickly.

Strategic Focus #3: Enhancing Public Services through Research, Sponsorship, and Incubation

The aim is to support innovative ideas and early-stage civic projects. It will foster an environment that creates, develops, and implements novel solutions to shared public challenges. This will be achieved by sponsoring research, providing fiscal sponsorship to creative ideas, and incubating ideas for change. The expected outcomes are improved public services, greater support to promising initiatives, and more innovative solutions to tackle shared challenges.

The Oregon Innovation Foundation creates a framework that encapsulates diverse knowledge, strategies, policies, and processes to address people’s needs locally, regionally, and nationally.