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July 06. 2022
Economic
Justice Advocate
Coming Home
Obituary
In Loving Memory of
Paul E.
Stewart Jr.
Oregon
Community
Foundation
names new CEO
A nationally recognized ad-
vocate for economic justice will
return to Oregon to lead the Or-
egon Community Foundation, a
major institution that works with
donors and volunteers to award
grants and scholarships to im-
prove lives for all Oregonians.
Lisa Mensah will be the
foundation’s next chief exec-
utive officer when she begins
her official duties in Sepember.
She was named last month as
the Oregon Communty Founda-
tion‘s fouth CEO in its nearly
50-year-old history, succeeding
Max Williams who is transiton-
ing out of his role after a decade
of leadership.
Since its founding in 1973,
OCF has distributed more than
$2 billion toward advancing its
mission to improve lives for all
Oregonians.
Mensah is widely considered
an expert on access to capital in
distressed and low-wealth com-
munities and on the role of finance
in social, economic and racial jus-
tice. She has served as the presi-
dent and CEO of the Opportunity
Paul E. Stewart Jr. was born Oc-
tober 22, 1945 in Portland, and
passed away June 23, 2022. Paul
enjoyed the outdoors and was a
long time Portland resident.
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Lisa Mensah
Finance Network and currently
heads one of the nation’s leading
networks of Community Develop-
ment Financial Institutions.
Born and raised in Oregon,
Mensah is returning to her home
state following an illustrious
career that has taken her from
working on rural poverty with
the Ford Foundation to serving
as Undersecretary for Rural De-
velopment at the USDA in the
Obama Administration, manag-
ing a $215 billion loan portfolio,
officials said.
“I am excited to return to my
roots here in Oregon; to leverage
my expertise and the sum of my
experiences,” Mensah said. “In
this moment, I feel very fortunate
to join hands with a 50-year tradi-
tion at Oregon Community Foun-
dation, working to help this state
and its people flourish.”
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