Open Meadow in the News

Open Meadow has been recognized regionally and nationally for our work with small schools and workforce development for at-risk youth. The American Youth Policy Forum recently profiled Open Meadow in Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth.

• STEP UP is featured on the cover of The Oregonian's InPortland section, July 2007
• Open Meadow Executive Director Andrew Mason speaks out in a June 4th editorial published in the Oregonian, June 2007
• Open Meadow is featured in a Portland Tribune article about Connected by 25, an effort to connect every Portland young person to school, work and community by the age of 25, May 2007
• Open Meadow has been chosen to receive a year of free advertising in the Portland Business Journal
• Open Meadow Receives $200,000 Grant From the Meyer Memorial Trust, November 2006
• Open Meadow Students Intern at Metro, November 2006
• Employees of The Standard Raise Nearly $25,000 for Open Meadow
• STEP UP in the Portland Tribune, September 2006
• The Standard, September 2006
• Open Meadow Middle School teacher's innovative project receives second place in national ING Unsung Heroes award program, August 2006
• Open Meadow High School, Oregonian, August 2006
• City Corps, Oregonian, July 2006
• Open Meadow student competes in state track meet, Portland Tribune, May 2006
• Oregonian Article on Middle School Biodiesel Project, February 2006
• Portland Business Journal, January 2006
• Northwest Area Foundation, November 2005
• Oregonian column, Children's Investment Fund, August 2005
• STEP UP Program in the St. Johns Review, June 2005
• STEP UP Program in the Oregonian, May 2005
• Bank of America Award, FindLaw.com, November 2004
• Pep-Net Honors Stellar Programs, Youth Today, October 2003
• The Standard, June 2003
• The Standard, September 2002