Mike Goodwin

Goodwin has been named one of two 2013 recipients of the CASE Commonfund Institutionally Related Foundation Award. He will receive the award on April 18 at the annual CASE conference for this group of foundations. This prestigious award recognizes professionals who have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement, quality, and effectiveness of their foundations and the sector.

OSU President Ray received the 2013 Leadership Award from CASE District VIII at its annual conference earlier this month. See this LIFE@OSU story for more details. It is rare for both a university president and the CEO of a university foundation to receive top honors in the same year, according to CASE president John Lippincott.

Here is a list of CASE District VIII awards received by OSU at the conference this month. OSU was the second-most honored institution at the conference, according to Michelle Williams of the OSU Foundation.

President Edward Ray

Viewbooks and Prospective Student Publications

Silver
Oregon State University
Oregon State University Student Recruitment Viewbook
Long Lam, Gary Dulude, Amy Charron, Teresa Hall, Laura Shields, Santiago Uceda, Melody Oldfield

Other Special Purpose Publications 

Silver

Oregon State University
Evans Scholar Foundation booklet
Long Lam, Gary Dulude, Amy Charron, Melody Oldfield, Laura Shields

Special Constituency and Research Magazines

Gold
Oregon State University
Terra Magazine
Nick Houtman, Lee Sherman, Teresa Hall, Amy Charron, Steve Clark

Multipage print design

Silver

Oregon State University
Oregon State University Student Recrutiment Viewbook
Long Lam, Santiago Uceda, Amy Charron, Teresa Hall, Gary Dulude, Melody Oldfield, Laura Shields

Posters

Silver

Oregon State University
Morrill Act 150 year anniversary posters
Long Lam, Gary Dulude, Shelly Signs, Amy Charron, Melody Oldfield, Laura Shields

Individual Features or Feature Articles

Gold

Oregon State University
Plates of Honor
Angela Yeager

Silver

Oregon State University
The Ethic of Care
Lee Sherman 

Bronze
Oregon State University
Far and Away
Lee Sherman

News Writing

Silver
Oregon State University
Yellowstone transformed 15 years after the return of wolves
David Stauth

Bronze
Oregon State University
Sporting event ads viewed favorably – especially if the game is close
Angela Yeager

Bronze
Oregon State University
Jurassic pain: Giant “flea-like” insects plagued dinosaurs
David Stauth

Special Events

Bronze

Oregon State University Foundation
Building a Community of Major Donors
OSU Foundation Strategic Communications & Donor Relations

Web Magazine (periodical or continual)

Gold
Oregon State University, College of Public Health and Human Sciences
Synergies online magazine
Kathryn Stroppel, Alan Calvert

Student Recruitment Videos

Bronze

OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences
MPH Student Helps Improve Women’s Health in Uganda
Heather Turner

Multimedia for Special Events

Gold

Oregon State University
Harris Recognition Dinner Multimedia
Steven Lont, David Baker, Michelle Williams, Kegan Sims, Oliver Day, Justin Smith, Santiago Uceda, Evan Gutt, Richard Hibbins, Deborah Correa, Cathleen Hockman-Wert, Ashley Fuszek Lindsley, Audrey Wiltz, Alex Crawford

Stepping onto the fifth floor of the Bank of California Building makes a visitor feel that they’ve been teleported directly from the streets of downtown Portland to the campus of Oregon State University, and that’s exactly what Carol Van Natta, OSU Foundation Vice President of the Portland Center, hopes to achieve.

Carol Van Natta of the OSU Foundation, left, and Cathy Marshall of OSU Alumni Association, agree that the Portland Center can help OSU achieve a stronger Portland presence.

The OSU Portland Center is a bridge between the Corvallis campus and the many alumni, donors, faculty and staff who live in the Portland Metropolitan region. OSU Foundation is the primary tenant, and shares the space with the Alumni Association, E campus, Beaver Sports Properties and the Open Source Lab. In addition to providing offices for 25 Portland-based staff members, the center also serves as a “home away from home” for OSU Corvallis staff and faculty, offering conference rooms, office space, and even cubicles for staff who are visiting Portland and need a temporary work spot or gathering place. There are also two kitchens and state of the art teleconferencing capabilities.

The space has great views of historic downtown Portland buildings, and is located in the heart of the city, close to restaurants, shopping and entertainment venues. The center has hosted gatherings of up to 100 people in its elegant fifth floor setting, including a Benny Beaver holiday event at which the children of alumni decided that Benny was even cooler than Santa Claus.

But from the outside, no one would realize that the OSU Portland Center even exists. Van Natta is waiting on street-level signage that will help draw visitors up to the fifth floor, but right now, they’re depending on word of mouth to draw those connected to OSU to their door.

“We’re working on a campaign to help people realize that we do have a presence in Portland,” Van Natta said.
And there are a lot of Portland-OSU connections. There are approximately 40,000 OSU alumni living in the Portland area, which is about 26 percent of the living alumni in the country.

This conference room is available for use by OSU faculty and staff.

“This is clearly the largest concentration,” of alumni in one location, with Seattle and San Francisco the next two urban areas with large concentrations of OSU graduates.  With so many OSU connections in Portland, it’s important to have a presence in the city, both for the purposes of money raising and keeping alumni connected to their alma mater. OSU already has niche programs in the Metro area, including the Institute for Natural Resources, the Center for Food Innovation, and OSU Extensions.

Portlanders already make up 35 percent of donors to the OSU Foundation’s current capital campaign. And with most major industries and a majority of alumni located in the state’s only major metropolitan area, “We neglect Portland at our peril,” Van Natta said.

Cathy Marshall, director for regional programs with the OSU Alumni Association, couldn’t agree more.

“It’s a really valuable city in terms of reaching alumni,” she said. And while academic programming is not a focus of the Portland Center, creating events where alumni can connect with OSU faculty and students is a major emphasis.

“Alums benefit from being exposed to students (of) today,” Marshall said. She focuses on creating programs that are both affordable, and offer alumni something they might likely do anyway, but with an OSU twist. For instance, they’ve created an OMSI after-hours event for alumni and their guests that allows them to view the current exhibit and listen to a special talk related to the exhibit by OSU history professor Lisa Sarasohn.

Other events include making special seating available at PGE Park for Beaver baseball games, and the Alumni Association’s premiere event, the annual Orange and Black Evening at the Governor Hotel, which raises money for scholarships. Last year the Alumni Association offered $219,000 in scholarships to OSU students.

Smaller events, such as the Benny Beaver holiday visit, are equally successful.

“Benny will hopefully be spending more time here,” Marshall said.

Jennifer Garcia can help OSU faculty and staff arrange to use the Portland Center facilities by calling 503-241-9333.

And, hopefully more OSU staff and faculty will be spending time at the Portland Center as well. Use of conference and office space is free from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, but after hours use of facilities is possible for a small fee.

“There are lots of OSU people in Portland all the time,” Van Natta said. “This is their OSU home away from home. We’re here to serve them.”

To find out more about the OSU Portland Center, see http://osufoundation.org/portland. The Center is located at 707 S.W. Washington St., Ste. 500, in Portland.

To find out more about Alumni Association events going on in Portland, see http:// www.osualum.com

~Theresa Hogue