History

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AFO has been the proud sponsor of the annual Senator Mark O. Hatfield Architectural Award – a scholarship to a final-year student in architecture who is a resident of Oregon.  The scholar ship is awarded both for academic and design accomplishment, and for commitment to community through volunteer  efforts.

The Or egon Community Foundation asked AFO to join with it, beginning in 2001, in awarding the annual Van Evera Bailey Fellowship to a mid-career  architect. to date, have been:

2001 – John Cava to study and publish the work of Or egon architect John Yeon

2002 – Suzanne Zuniga to develop a databank of sustainable resources for

residential ar chitectur e

2003 – Bonnie Bayard to resear ch alternatives for creation of ecologically

sound, aesthetically pleasing landscapes independent of domestic water supplies

2004 – Richard Browning to publish and disseminate a report on design of righ of ways, particularly with regard to the coexistence of pedestrians, bicycles,

autos and other  modes of transportation, as studied in three specific modern

Japanese cities

In 2002, AFO established an office in donated space at KPFF Consulting Engineers.  A new strategic plan f or the organization was completed, targeting several projects aimed at expanding the organization’s impact on Oregon’s built environment.  That same year, with successful fundraising progr ams such as the Honored Citizen Event and the Dinner With An Architect ser ies, the organization raised more than twice previous years’ efforts, resulting in 2003 gr ants being increased from $20,000 to $40,000.  An Endowment Partner Fund was established by AFO at the Or egon Community Foundation, thereby ensuring fiscal r esponsibility for past and future gifts to the organization’s endowment.

In 2003, AFO assumed r esponsibility for administration of the Architects in Schools program, which it had funded f rom the beginning.  Plans wer e laid for an architecture education program in high schools.  Two Hatf ield Scholarships were awarded.  The Dinner With An Architect series and Honored Citizen dinner  again r eached lar ger audiences.

In 2004, a task force of AFO Board members studied the organization’s long-term financial needs and made recommendations regarding opportunities to incr ease revenues for support of expanded programs.  A pilot for Thought>Process, a pr ogram for high school students and teacher s, was launched at Sabin Schellenberg Center in the Nor th Clackamas School District.  The Rosalind Reed Dwight Scholarship, which had been dormant for several years, was reinstituted.  Plans were laid f or a membership structure and the organization’s first comprehensive public awareness campaign, LOOK AROUND, to be launched in 2005.