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"NW Documentary practices, teaches, and shares the art of non-fiction storytelling. We illuminate important stories that would otherwise be lost or overlooked, provide experiential learning opportunities, and generate better understanding, appreciation, and dialog within our community."

By presenting film, teaching film and supporting filmmakers, The Northwest Film Center fills an important role in Portland’s art, education and entertainment communities.

"The Northwest Film Center is a non-profit regional media arts resource and service organization to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts, to foster their artistic and professional excellence, and to help create a climate in which they may flourish."

Technology continues to evolve so that more people are more easily able to access the tools necessary to create moving imagery. Pro Photo Supply is committed to serving as a resource for individuals who utilize these tools to explore the world.

Pro Photo Supply is proud to be a sponsor of The Northwest Film Center.

"For the past eight years Focus on Youth has been putting cameras in the hands of low-income high risk youth and we have seen them transformed by the experience. Focus on Youth uses photography to empower culturally and ethnically diverse teens by providing them with creative outlets to make positive changes in their lives. We collaborate with professional photographers, schools and community organizations developing projects that engage students’ imagination and creativity while building their confidence and self-worth.

Focus on Youth nurtures creativity, promotes leadership skills, encourages success and profoundly transforms the lives of our students and our participants."

"Founded in 1974, Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for all Oregonians.

Oregon Wild (formerly the Oregon Natural Resources Council or ONRC) has been instrumental in securing permanent legislative protection for some of Oregon’s most precious landscapes, including nearly 1.7 million acres of Wilderness, 95,000 acres of forests in Bull Run/Little Sandy watersheds (to safeguard the quality of Portland's water supply) and almost 1,800 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers. As a leader of the national grassroots charge for conservation of roadless areas in our national forests, Oregon Wild helped secure administrative protections for more than 58 million acres of spectacular roadless areas across the country."

"The mission of FOR is to support the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. We are dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Refuge for the benefit of fish and wildlife, and for public education and recreation."

"The Friend's mission is to support, protect, and enhance the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge and its wildlife habitat, and to broaden public awareness and participation in its environmental, cultural, and educational opportunities."

"Ascending the Giants is a non-profit organization that produces an ongoing series of expeditions to measure the largest tree of each species. These trees demonstrate the pinnacle of what a species can be; they are called champion trees."

"For 127 years, we’ve been helping Oregon’s children. We find children permanent homes through adoption and provide temporary safe places to stay through shelters and foster homes."

"Created in 2001, the Photography Council is composed of photographers, collectors, and many with a desire to learn more about the art form. Members meet for talks and guided tours of the collection and Museum exhibitions, educational lectures with guest speakers, and visits to galleries and private collections. Photo sharing events occur annually. Using funds raised through membership dues, the Council members select photographs to add to the collection from proposals made by the Curator. All members are entitled to vote on these selections at an Annual Meeting and participate in the growth of the photography collection."

"Photolucida is an arts non-profit whose mission is to provide platforms that expand, inspire, educate and connect the regional, national, and international photography community."

Photolucida is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We award merit-based scholarships to our Reviews to deserving photographers, and to international photographers in Critical Mass. Dedicated to increasing understanding through photography, Photolucida also donates Critical Mass books to over 30 Oregon art schools, colleges, and libraries.