JFR Foundation




News \| Resources \| Nica Store News JFR President & Founder Wins Sy Award: Dr. Keren Brown Wilson received the Citizen Involvement Committee's 4th Annual Sy Award at its annual celebration dinner on June 9th. Dr. Brown is the architect of the OR model of assisted living and known globally for her research on assisted living issues. Click here to read more! PSU 2011 Service Learning Trip: The 2011 Portland State University service learning trip was a great success! Please check back for more information regarding the charitable work that they did in Nicaragua during their visit. JFR's Second Annual Scholarship Luncheon: On Wednesday, June 1st, the Jessie F. Richardson Foundation is holding its Second Annual Scholarship Luncheon. This program is to support service learning trips for students from Concordia University, Portland State University and Pacific University to work with the elders of Nicaragua. It is being held from 11:30am-1:30pm at the George R. White Library on the Concordia University Campus. On their service learning trips, students hold health clinics, lead seminars and trainings on subjects ranging from physical therapy to dental hygiene to public health strategies, and complete construction projects at the Hogares de Ancianos, or elder homes, of Nicaragua. Since JFR first began leading service learning trips in 2003, over 200 students have had life changing experiences working with the elders of Nicaragua. Please help them continuing doing so! Individual tickets are available as well as the opportunity to make a donation. To make a donation, go to our donate now page, or send a check to: The JFR Foundation 15900 SE 82nd Drive Clackamas, Oregon 97015 To purchase tickets or for more information on the Scholarship Luncheon, please contact Dylan Smith at dsmith@jfrfoundation.org or 503-408-4759. Tickets are limited, so reserve your seats today! Thank you and we look forward to seeing you there. Service Learning News: From March 18th to the 26th, 9 Optometry students and one licensed Optometrist from Pacific University traveled to Nicaragua to share their skills with that nation’s elder population. Click here to learn more! Service Learning in Action: JFR Foundation Successfully Launches Inaugural ‘Voluntourism’ Trip to Nicaragua! JFR partnered with Life by Design NW and Portland Community College (PCC) Community Education to offer a travel-service trip to Nicaragua in January 2011. This was the first time a trip was open to the public (students and nonstudents welcome). It was designed to be an incredible travel experience as well as a rewarding opportunity to ‘give back’ to those in need. Click here to learn more about the trip! Click here to learn the history of JFR's service learning program. Click here to hear more about the experience of one of the Voluntourists! Congratulations, Cynthia Lopez! Cynthia, a Portland State University student and participant in JFR's service learning program, submitted her short video on Nicaragua to the Gerontological Society of America's Global65 YouTube Video Contest and WON! We're very proud of her and the wonderful work she is doing to spread the word about the elders of Nicaragua. Click here to see the winning video! Wheels to Nicaragua: We're sending another container shipment filled with immediate care supplies for elders in Nicaragua. Click here to learn more! Adopt-a-Granny fund-raiser: A severe draught in western Nicaragua has brought great hardships for elders. Please consider helping these elders who are facing poverty? Click here to learn more. University Service Learning: Our programs at Portland State University and Pacific University are going strong. JFR is happy to now include Concordia University, who took their first service learning trip down to Nicaragua in May 2010. JFR needs to broaden its volunteer base! JFR is always in need of support. If you'd like to volunteer with JFR, please contact Dylan Smitch at dsmith@jfrfoundation.org Click here to see examples of the types of volunteers JFR needs!