RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-community-birth-centers-capital-campaign-virtual-year-end-celebration-tickets-129266829567 One year ago, Our Community Birth Center hosted a joyful and packed Capital Campaign Launch Party (with babies, kids, snacks, and so much good company!). We wish we could get together in-person once again; however, since that is not an option... We invite you to join us online for a brief celebration of our accomplishments over the past year and a look ahead to the next steps as we get closer to opening an new nonprofit nurse midwifery birth center for Lane County. We will share Our Community Birth Center's highlights of the past year, introduce our 2021

Many thanks to all our donors and matching donors! Thank you Christine Heritage, Janie Akerlund, Nancy MacMorris-Adix, Cynthia J. Hunter, Holly Russell, Hope Ruddell, Sharon Baker, Jenny Noyce & Cory Hoover, Ruth Ezeonwuka, Annie Hoag, Christine Apollony Donaldson, Hilary Prager, Kirstin & Pete Carhart, AlexAnn Westlake, Linda Motzkin & Jonathan Rubenstein, Temple Sinai, Jude Hales, and Jeanelle Martinez for matching donations!

MORE VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED! We are so proud of our Lane County Community Members showing up to help their neighbors in this local wildfire crisis exacerbated by the pandemic and economic recession. Thank you! There is a huge amount of work to do now and on-going to support our community members who have lost their homes, possessions, jobs, and more because of the wildfire. Please sign up to volunteer using these current opportunities and if you know of other volunteer needs please share in the comments. Sign up to volunteer for Lane County Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) Help

Update: We plan to continue Baby Gear Network through December 31, 2020. Our Community Birth Center is helping coordinate between local community members donating and local community members seeking pregnancy and baby gear and clothing. These items are often quite expensive and can be an immensely helpful gift to other parents. We have set up a system to help match people offering items with people seeking items. Thank you for participating to help lend a hand to another family during this exceptionally challenging year! TO REQUEST ITEMS: You are invited and encouraged to fill out our form (link below) to

Figuring out how to keep the smoke out of your living space takes time and energy (which can be extra hard to find when you're busy keeping your children safe and busy indoors all day!) Here are some tips and resources to help, including DIY options! Turn off and tape plastic garbage bags over the fan vents in your bathroom and kitchen (do not leave them running to clear the smoke, this creates negative pressure which sucks more smoke into the house through all the tiny cracks in doors and windows). If you have AC, only use it if it

Thank you to all of the firefighters, volunteers, and community members showing up to respond and provide relief as Lane County is suffering from lost homes and lives and severe smoke conditions. If you are safe at home, here are ways you can help your community! GIVE OR RECEIVE ASSISTANCE: https://lane.recovers.org/ DONATE FUNDS: CORE, Black Thistle Street Aid, Occupy Medical and Lane County Mutual Aid: Community Wildfire Refuge Support Fund: https://fundly.com/community-wildfire-refuge-support United Way of Lane County Wildfire Response Fund: https://egiving.unitedwaylane.org/wildfires Lane County Mutual Aid in partnership with NAACP: https://lanemutualaid.org/ Carry It Forward Supporting the Unhoused in Eugene/Springfield: https://www.carryitforward.net/ Food for

In Memory of Dennis Carr 2/17/1952 - 8/8/2020 In fall of 2019, we asked Dennis Carr to join the Board of Directors of Our Community Birth Center. Dennis shared that he was starting treatment for cancer, and despite that, he committed to the Board because he said "The birth center is very important for our community." Not only was Dennis a recent supporter of Our Community Birth Center, Dennis and his wife Michele Peters-Carr CNM have been dedicated birth center advocates for many years, which many of our supporters know, since they had Michele as their midwife. Dennis worked as Chief Human

FREESTANDING BIRTH CENTER LOOKING FOR NEW SPACE IN LANE COUNTY Our Community Birth Center makes strides toward opening Lane County, OR – August 12, 2020 – Pregnant people in Lane County are looking for care and finding their birth options limited. Currently, there are no birth centers in our area. Fortunately, Our Community Birth Center, a new local 501(c)(3) organization, is making progress toward opening a new birth center to restore access to this crucial service. The United States and our local community are currently facing two crises which highlight the importance of access to birth center care:  People are

We surpassed 500 donors to our fundraising campaign on July 31, 2020. We are so honored and inspired to have such widespread support for reinstating birth center services in Lane County. Thank you to all of our donors. Your support is making the message loud and clear: Every pregnant person deserves the option of supportive, empowering, and client-centered midwifery birth center care! Lane County needs a birth center! People in Lane County support the birth center! Want to get more involved and learn how you can make an even bigger impact? Contact us at OurCommunityBirthCenter@gmail.com. All donations are going toward

Lane County Friends of the Birth Center and local birth center families created these beautiful stepping stones at the farewell open house for the Nurse Midwifery Birth Center last year. We can't wait to display these in the new birth center! Check out the latest blog post from the Friends of the Birth Center about Our Community Birth Center and how you can help get the new birth center open in Lane County! Stepping Into the Future with Our Community Birth Center