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Providing Opportunities To Grow And Sustain
Our Communities Through Local Giving

Our Focus Is Community

Pacific Community Foundation (PCF) formally incorporated as a public charity and nonprofit organization in 2012, after several years of planning. PCF grows endowments and other funds, and makes grants throughout the Pacific County community on the south coast of Washington. While our original focus was on south Pacific County, today we work county-wide with nonprofit organizations to benefit all areas of our community. This includes west Wahkiakum County, which sends its children to school in Naselle.

MISSION

Provide opportunities to grow and sustain our communities through local giving

VISION

Our communities will thrive through connections that engage volunteers and encourage contributions

ANNUAL REPORT

PCF 2023 Annual Report

PCF 2022 Annual Report

PCF 2021 Annual Report

PCF 2020 Annual Report

VALUES

LEADERSHIP

We provide leadership and inspiration, and strive for excellence in creating permanent, positive changes in our communities and region.

PHILANTHROPY

We invest in our community by building and managing endowments, hosting capital campaigns, finding positive solutions to promote philanthropy, and by making grants that encourage social justice, fairness and stewardship.

INTEGRITY

We act with honesty and truthfulness in all matters, including straightforward discussions with one another, upright internal operations, transparent business transactions, and factual communications with our community.

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP

We manage foundation resources to ensure sustainability and wealth building via prudent management of our assets.

PASSION

We are passionate about making our community and the world a better place.

PCF’s finances are reviewed each month by the board. The board has its books reviewed by a CPA who prepares our annual 990 reports to the IRS. We use a purpose-built accounting program, Community Suite, which provides on-request reports on the state of our finances. Donors with their own funds can access their fund’s financial information at any time through a portal for fund managers.

For more information, see https://communityfoundations.foundant.com/

Our Current Form 990

Our Investment Committee has a clear purpose: to protect the body or corpus of our funds while investing money wisely for the long-term. It is our policy to invest to ensure diversification and to achieve the highest investment return consistent with primary objectives of safety and liquidity. We have a fiduciary responsibility to act prudently and responsibly to maintain the safety of funds. The standard of prudence we follow is the Prudent Person Rule: “Investment shall be made with judgment and care, under circumstances then prevailing, which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not for speculation, but for investment, considering the probable safety of their capital as well as the probable income to be derived.” Our Investment Committee oversees the management of our portfolio. The PCF board has final responsibility for the investment of our portfolio. The annual state of the portfolio is reported publicly each year in our 990 report. Back years’ reports are available on request.

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS:


JERRY MACY, CHAIRMAN
DENNIS LONG
KATHLEEN SAYCE
TODD WIEGARDT

Members serve three year terms, which are renewable. This is a working board. We appreciate the time and effort that every member brings to the board to keep the foundation working for our community.

JERRY MACY

PRESIDENT
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KATHLEEN SAYCE

TREASURER
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PHIL ALLEN

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FRANK GLENN IV

VICE PRESIDENT
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KATHY FREITAS

SECRETARY
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JOHN RAMAGE

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DENNIS LONG

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MICHELLE SVENDSEN

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NANCY GORSHE

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KEN JOHNSON

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Our Advisor’ Circle are people who have skills greatly valued by PCF. Many advisors provide us with neighborhood-level awareness of the communities in which they live or work. We are pleased and honored that these outstanding individuals are willing to contribute some of their time for the betterment of our community.

  • Donna Boyer
  • Cyndy Hayward
  • Dennis Long
  • Doug Goeltz
  • Gayle Borchard
  • Nancy McAllister
  • Marty Lemke
  • Betsy Millard
  • Sally Macy
  • Shelly Pollock

Home: Dunes near Long Beach, drone photo by Bob Duke
About: North Jetty, photo by Jim Sayce
Donor Info: Willapa Entrance sunset, photo by Jim Sayce
Nonprofits: Round (Baby) Island sunset, photo by Warren Cowell
Scholarship: Teal Slough, photo by Jim Sayce
Blog: Long Island Channel looking north, photo by Kathleen Sayce

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BIO

Jerry Macy was born in San Diego and raised in the high desert town of Palmdale north of Los Angeles. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles before starting work for the Navy as a civilian at a remote research and development base on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains (still very much in the high desert). While working at the base he earned a Masters of Public Administration from California State University, Bakersfield.

During a 27-year career Macy worked in business administration, strategic planning and financial operations, serving as the Navy base’s Chief Financial Officer for the last seven years of his career.

In 1999 Macy took an early retirement from Federal service and relocated to the San Francisco Bay area to pursue a second career in public schools as a deputy superintendent for business operations. Among other things he was actively engaged in securing funding for and overseeing school modernization and new construction. Working daily with teachers, staff and school administrators to support and improve the teaching environment for thousands of students was the most rewarding work of Macy’s career.

Following retirement in 2009 Macy worked extensively with a local non-profit committed to helping disadvantaged middle and high school youth who faced (and overcame) extreme challenges to succeeding in school. His years of strategic planning and securing financial support for the non-profit were a key part in stabilizing and expanding this critically important effort.

The Macys’ ties to Pacific County go back nearly 40 years when Jerry’s in-laws purchased time shares at the Surfside Inn. For Jerry, Sally and (then) 5-year-old daughter Megan visiting the Peninsula was always a treasured retreat from the summer heat of the Mojave Desert. They always felt that no one treasures the cool green of the Pacific Northwest coast more than those who spend long, hot summer days where 115-degree temperatures are not unusual.

Jerry and his wife, Sally, became permanent residents in 2013. They enjoy their home overlooking Willapa Bay in Ocean Park as well as traveling, walks along the beach and spending time with their granddaughter.

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Kathleen Sayce grew up in Ocean Park, Washington around several resource based industries, including oysters, fishing, cranberries and timber. She attended Ilwaco High School, where she played three sports and was a member of Torch Honor; she was also active in 4-H horse programs during high school. Sayce graduated from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, Bellingham, with a B.Science in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Geology. She graduated from Washington State University, Pullman, with a M. Science in Botany.

Returning to Pacific County, she led field research on the ecological impacts of Spartina alterniflora, smooth cordgrass, in tidelands of Willapa Bay for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and mapped the presence of Viola adunca, early blue violets, host plant for Oregon Silverspot butterfly, Speyeria zerene hippolyta for Washington Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. She sampled phytoplankton in local waters for more than five years, monitoring species that produce biotoxins for several state agencies. Sayce was the Science Program Director for the Willapa Alliance in the mid-1990s, where she organized annual science conferences, led the local science group, and edited Willapa Indicators for Sustainability. She was the Science Officer for ShoreBank Pacific, the nation's first environmental bank, and helped take the bank from less than $20m to more than $220m in assets. While at the bank she developed the bank's internal assessment tools, based on triple bottom line metrics, did the bank's carbon accounting metrics, and worked with clients to improve their energy and materials efficiency, and profitability.

On the community side, Sayce's board commitments over several decades include: Water Music Festival; Confluence Project, which raised more than $20M to place art designed by Maya Lin in six locations along the Columbia and Snake Rivers; South Pacific County Community Foundation; and Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris. She has been active in several groups, including: Friends of the Library; WSU Master Gardeners; native plant societies in Oregon and Washington; Swalalahos Natural History Society; Grassroots Garbage Gang; North Coast Land Conservancy, and Friends of Willapa Refuge.

Sayce is married to Pacific County Commissioner Frank Wolfe, and lives on Willapa Bay north of Nahcotta, Washington. In her private life Sayce enjoys hiking, gardening, boating, and flying.

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Phil Allen, a licensed architect, holds a degree in architecture from the University of Oregon. His education, dovetailed with design and construction management interests, took him to West Coast building assignments from Long Beach, Washington to Palmer, Alaska; to California, from San Diego to Santa Cruz. Projects included churches, casinos, transportation support facilities and high-end residential designs.

Allen maintained professional membership in the American Institute of Architects, and served as a member of the AIA Jury on Institute Honors. Prior to his retirement from the Denver-based architectural firm, RNL, his career culminated with an invitation as "technical director" for an award-winning hotel design in Doha, Quatar, which he declined in favor of relocating to South Pacific County.

Allen is a member of a 6th generation Pacific County family significant to the promotion of the Willapa Bay oyster industry, the initial establishment of Ocean Park, and the development of early governmental facilities at Cape Disappointment. His family tree includes Pacific County natives, shipwrecked sailors, Quinault Indians and Oysterville pioneers. He spent childhood summers in South Pacific County, steeped in oral histories and local traditions.

Now residing in Long Beach, Allen spends time volunteering for local business interests, studying foraging for the bounty of South County's abundant seafood and fauna, and lecturing, teaching, and sharing those skills with others.

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Frank Glenn IV is a fourth-generation resident of the Long Beach Peninsula, lifelong resident of Pacific County, and continues to manage and conserve land that was part of the original Cranguyma Farms, founded in 1940 by his great-grandfather Guy C. Myers. Once the largest cranberry farm west of the Mississippi, some of the bogs are still producing from the original cultivars.

In addition to growing up working on the cranberry farm, Frank followed his interests in conservation and forestry, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Forest Resource Management from the University of Washington in 1998. He put his skills into practice on family-owned forestlands, earning the 2002 Tree Farmer of the Year award from the Pacific County Farm Forestry Association. Also, in the 2000’s Frank worked tirelessly with Columbia Land Trust to secure the preservation of 359-acre Island Lake Forest in the center of the Long Beach Peninsula, which now adjoins nearly 1300 contiguous acres preserved in a natural state.

Frank has been a Licensed Mental Health Counselor since 2007. He received his Master’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle at Bastyr University in 2005. In late 2020, Frank founded One With Life Counseling, PLLC, his private psychotherapy practice serving clients in Pacific County and throughout Washington State. Earlier in his career Frank dedicated many years to clients at Willapa Behavioral Health, and among other roles served on the Leadership Team as Clinical Services Manager supervising staff and student-interns. Frank is passionate about helping people recover from the suffering of mental illness and is skilled in treating anxiety, depression, PTSD, personality disorders, grief, and bipolar disorders. Frank uses a person-centered approach tailored to each individual’s needs. He also is experienced in couple’s and family therapy.

Frank met his wife Lin over ten years ago while working at Willapa Behavioral Health. She is an actively practicing Licensed Social Worker who has worked throughout the Columbia-Pacific region, and together they are raising their two daughters who are involved in ballet, piano and T-ball. Frank has traveled to China with his family several times to visit the in-laws and experience the culture, history and food.

In his spare time, you can find Frank seeking out big old trees to admire, walking his dog Charlie, and studying the weather.

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Kathy Freitas moved to Pacific County (Ocean Park) immediately upon retirement, over ten years ago. She quickly assimilated into the welcoming community and has thoroughly enjoyed the proximity to ocean, bay, coastal forests, and all the wildlife that co-exists within the Long Beach Peninsula.

She graduated with a liberal arts degree from Notre Dame de Namur University in the Bay Area, and her career path, which began with social work, transitioned into many years of executive support roles. Most recently, she enjoyed long tenures at the University of Portland and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

Volunteer work has been a lifelong avocation for Kathy, with roles in, among others, the March of Dimes, adult literacy, a Lunch Buddy program, and a leadership position with the Friends of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. It was in that latter role that she learned about Pacific Community Foundation and became a staunch supporter of the organization. As a PCF board member, she now gets to leverage her love for her community by striving to impact the many nonprofit organizations throughout the area.

In her spare, “retirement” time, Kathy likes connecting on social media and in person with her far-flung family, reading, writing, birding, outings with friends, and beach walks with her husband, Joe, and one of the cutest dogs on the Peninsula (!).

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John Ramage was born in New Zealand, spent his early years in Hong Kong, and junior and senior high school years in Honolulu. He then headed to college in the Pacific Northwest, graduating with a BS in civil engineering from WSU. He also earned an MS in civil engineering from the University of Illinois.

John was fortunate to spend his 40+ year career with one company, working primarily on public infrastructure projects (water, wastewater, transportation, environmental remediation). His assignments took him all over the United States, from Boston to San Diego, Anchorage to Miami, and many locations through the middle of the country. Several international assignments included Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, Germany, Canada, and, his final assignment before retiring, London.

Retiring in mid-2011, John and Eleanor returned to the Northwest, settling in Portland. Here they enjoyed all the city had to offer, traveled, and made several trips to the Oregon coast. In 2015 they tried something different, a long weekend to the Long Beach Peninsula, and as they say, the rest is history!

John and Eleanor fell in love with the area—the scenery, the people, the close-knit community—and moved to Seaview in December 2015. The major downside to John’s career was the extensive travel required to spend time on project sites. Now on the Peninsula, when travel is only for pleasure, John and Eleanor have been able to truly become involved with neighbors and the community.

They have been active in many activities (through Rotary) to support the needs of the Peninsula community (particularly the youth). John hopes to continue supporting the needs of the Peninsula through working with the Pacific Community Foundation.

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Dennis Long was born in Olympia, Washington, and raised in Elma, Washington.  He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Puget Sound and an advanced Banking Degree from The Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. After six years of military service, Dennis embarked on a banking career that included more than 40 years of senior executive positions. For 18 of those years, he was President & CEO for Bank of the Pacific, retiring in 2015.

Over his professional career, Dennis has served on numerous boards of directors, including those of the World Kite Museum, the Washington Bankers Association, the Grays Harbor Economic Development Council as Board Chair, the Grays Harbor Community Foundation, Western Independent Bankers Association as Board Chair, Peninsula Rotary Club as President, University of Puget Sound Alumni, and Dunes Bible Camp.  He authored monthly economic articles published in the Lower Columbia River Business Journal until his retirement in 2015 and currently serves as a Fire Commissioner for Pacific County Fire District #1.

Dennis and his wife, Kathy Long, have resided in Ocean Park since 1997 and have been married for 52 years.  Together they have three grown children and six grandchildren.  He loves fishing, clamming, watching the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, and traveling to remote parts of the world.

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Michelle Svendsen, her husband Erik, and 8-year-old daughter Taylor moved to Seaview from Vancouver, WA, in August 2010. After visiting their beach house for three years, they decided that the friendly community, scenery, clean ocean air, and easier lifestyle was where they wanted to live full time. Michelle quickly started a very successful housekeeping and property management company, where she met many community members and learned just how generous people are when it comes to supporting this community.

Erik and Michelle opened North Jetty Brewing & Tap Room in April 2014, which has grown into a successful brewery, with distribution throughout Oregon and Washington. Michelle also works as a Personal Development & Stress Management Coach, and has recently opened the Inspired Mind Matters Wellness Studio in Long Beach. At the studio, she teaches Yin Yoga/Meditation, Kids Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Breathwork/Cold Plunge, and numerous mind/body classes and workshops. Helping others find their path to stress management and wellness is an enduring passion.

Michelle served on the Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Bureau board for three years. She enjoys planning and hosting many community fundraisers at the brewery, utilizing her marketing and networking talents. She has a drive to learn, grow, develop her skills, and help other people and businesses do the same.

When Michelle isn't working at the brewery, at her studio, or coaching clients, she enjoys spending time with family (now expanded to include two adorable grandchildren who live nearby), traveling, gardening, and rock collecting. She even manages to find a little time for herself to continue to practice her breathwork, meditation, and wellness education, as well as hone her digital marketing and design skills.

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Nancy Gorshe received B. Arts, Sociology from Washington State University, a Masters in Social Work Administration and Business Administration from University of Washington, and worked in health care for several decades. Nancy recently retired from owning and managing The Depot Restaurant, Seaview, WA, with husband Chef Michael Lalewicz.

Nancy is the Chair of Ocean Beach Hospital Board of Commissioners. She also sits on the Governing Council of the Washington State Hospital Association and Advisory Council of the Olympic Area Agency on Aging. She was a leader of the local Visitors Bureau and Economic Development Council.

Nancy spent thirty years as a national leader in aging, health, long term care integration, housing and public policy. She was committed to the development of a continuum of care, leading efforts designed to create innovative programs: PACE program, Program for All Inclusive Care of the Elderly, a long term care HMO. She first implemented this model for Providence Health Systems, known as Providence ElderPlace in Oregon.

Prior to this, Nancy served as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. At this start up, Nancy managed national operations, marketing, policy & regulations, health services, development and training. Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. was a pioneer company in the assisted living field, operating 183 buildings in 16 states.

Nancy was the President of Franciscan ElderCare and Vice President of Continuum of Care with Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver, Colorado. With Franciscan, she was responsible for the national operations of long term care facilities, subacute units and home health agencies. With CHI, she led the development of services for the elderly throughout that system which operated in 24 states, including the development of PACE/LIFE in the state of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Nancy also served as Assistant Executive Director for the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging in Washington, D.C. and was also their lobbyist. She was on several boards, including the National Chronic Care Consortium, American Society on Aging, National Council of Aging, Northwest Assisted Living Federation of America, Oregon Gerontological Association and Senior Services of Washington. She served on committees for the Assisted Living Federation of America, American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association.

Her appointments included: First Lady Hillary Clinton’s Work Committee on Heath Care Reform, Long Term Care, and Governor’s Commission on Financing Long Term Care for the State of Oregon, and Portland-Multnomah Commission on Aging. She has also served as Aging News Specialist for KGW-TV/NBC in Portland, Oregon.

In addition to her work with the elderly, Gorshe taught courses on aging and long term care at the University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of Portland, Concordia University, Pacific Lutheran University and at Tacoma Community College. She conducted national training seminars and workshops for professionals and advocates in the field of aging, health and long term care throughout the country.

PCF is delighted to have Nancy join our board.

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Ken Johnson relocated to Pacific County in 2021, arriving as the new CEO of the long-time telephone and Internet company, WWEST Communications, and serves on the Pacific Community Foundation board to further the company’s efforts to benefit regional economic development and quality of life.

Ken was born and grew up in Ashtabula County of Northeast Ohio, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education, with an emphasis in Music, from Ohio Bible College, along with a Master of Technology degree earned from Kent State University. He has served as a high school teacher and adjunct faculty at Kent State and was named a Distinguished Alumni by Kent State’s School of Technology for his engineering exploits.

While his career started out in education, he soon gravitated to technology, growing up amidst the tech explosion of the mid-1990s, while the commercial Internet was evolving. He soon rose to the level of CEO, navigating his company through technological changes in the telephone, cable TV, and broadband Internet industries.

Ken’s volunteer work has included economic development, education, the arts, and other vital community organizations. In addition to PCF, he currently serves as a board member of the World Kite Museum, located in Long Beach, WA.

In his down time, Ken enjoys writing, video production, cultivating fruit trees and bushes, and following all Cleveland sports teams.