Giving Tuesday 2024

Our Native educators, knowledge holders, storytellers, and artists are the foundation of all our programs. We work hard to create intentional spaces where their voices can have the most impact.

This Giving Tuesday, support Confluence in the year ahead as we help Native storytellers, artists, community members, educators, and many others engage with one another and the land we live on.

This year, we’ve been busier than ever, serving over 2,000 students through our work bringing Indigenous stories and histories to the classroom and the outdoors.

We’ve supported Native artists like Kitana Connelly, our 2024 Emerging Indigenous Artist, as well as many emerging Native filmmakers through our Filmmaking Fellows program.

We’ve collected art, writing, and poetry from across the region in our Voices of the River journal, and we published Linda Meanus’s book My Name Is LaMoosh, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for children’s literature.

We’ve welcomed a new executive director, Leah Altman, who is Confluence’s first Indigenous executive director.

We’ve done all this with the backdrop of our river sites, which connect us to the land and encourage thoughtful connection with the world around us, along with the thousands of other ways we connect with storytellers in the Pacific Northwest.

As we move toward 2025, we’re beginning strategic planning to point Confluence’s compass toward the future.

We hope this #GivingTuesday you will support us in our mission as we build on the over two decades Confluence has spent connecting the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices.