The 2025-26 Giving Guide is out! The theme this year is “Sowing Seeds of Love”.
Please check it out and give generously–sowing your own seeds of love.
Not every organization can afford a paid profile, which pays for the production. So there is a list of contact information for all in the back.
The Giving Guide and detailed directories of the organizations can be found at www.northcoastbbq.com/local-resources/
The Giving Guide can also be found here: www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Giving-Guide-2025-26_Final_Spreads-2.pdf
Here are descriptions of several of those organizations:
Eugene Schmuck Foundation
FACT Oregon
Fire Mountain School
Eugene Schmuck Foundation
PO Box 58 ESFfoundation@yahoo.com
Manzanita, OR 97130
manzanitaopen@gmail.com
www.eugeneschmuckfoundation.org
Troy Bowers, President troy.bowers22095@outlook.com
The other Board members:
John Durkin, Vice President
Beth Gienger, Secretary
Camy VonSeggern, Treasurer
Tosha Reinmiller
Breanna Stephens
Connie Vander Waal
Mission Statement: It shall be the mission of the foundation to:
* recognize the needs of the citizens of North Tillamook County
* conduct an annual event intended to draw support from local citizens and visitors
* generate funds from this event at a minimum cost
* distribute funds raised to bona fide organizations serving North Tillamook County
* provide educational scholarships to North Tillamook County students
One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
The Eugene Schmuck Foundation (ESF) is a 501 (c)3 charitable nonprofit that strives to help meet the needs of North Tillamook County citizens. We focus on educational scholarship, Neah-kah-nie Schools, food insecurity, and senior welfare, but try to reach as many areas of need as possible. Since 1997 we’ve raised over 1.7 million dollars for local organizations, some of which are featured in the Giving Guide. Please see our website for more information.
FACT Oregon
503-786-6082, 541-695-5416
English: support@factoregon.org
Spanish: apoyo@factoregon.org
factoregon.org/
Scheduling a call:
English: calendly.com/fact_oregon_support/support-call
Spanish: calendly.com/apoyo-factoregon/reunion-de-apoyo-con-fact-oregon
Mission Statement: FACT Oregon empowers families experiencing disability in their pursuit of a whole life by expanding awareness, growing community, and equipping families.
One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
FACT Oregon empowers families and transforms how communities perceive disability. Our peer support, trainings, and resources equip and empower families, transform how they see disability, and help them have high expectations and dream big dreams for their children. We draw on the lived experience of our team, many themselves parents of youth experiencing disability, and call out the critically important role of parent/caregiver as a child’s number one fan and advocate.
Fire Mountain School
6505 Elk Flat Rd
Arch Cape, OR 97102
503-436-2610
firemountainschool@gmail.com
www.firemountainschool.org
Mission Statement: To nurture each child by providing a joyful, place-based learning experience.
One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
Founded in 1983, we are a nonprofit organization providing an independent education for preschool and elementary children. We have a Vision for our school, our coastal villages and our world in which all people become their best selves, curious, confident, creative problem solvers and stewards of their home place. By providing a foundation of experiential, hands on education for the whole child, the Fire Mountain Community nurtures healthy, happy, lifelong learners. Teachers and parents join together to create a community structure within which children experience discovery, challenge, experimentation, risk, failure and mastery. For children, experiential outdoor education can impart deeper understanding of the world, and instill a sense of wonder and excitement. Our place based curriculum seeks to educate children to become engaged citizens. Students will explore the north coast landscapes with their eyes open – learning to perceive the world around them clearly, to understand the processes that shape it, to gain confidence and skills in navigating outdoor settings, and to have the opportunity to engage and interact in the “living laboratory” of their home communities. Parents and community volunteers fulfill all operational duties, such as fundraising, bookkeeping, maintenance, cleaning, and marketing.
