Incubating Community Sustainability
Fulcrum Community Resource's guiding philosophy is that the most effective and innovative projects are initiated at the grassroots community level.

Our volunteer group initiates and coordinates local programs in northern Tillamook County on the north Oregon Coast. We also sponsor others’ projects that fit with our mission and goals. We see Fulcrum, not as a hub, but as an enabling node - one of many groups locally who are organizing and creating projects.

“We are friends and neighbors who have committed ourselves to the creation of a new paradigm of community. As we honor the best and truest of the past and present, we focus on supporting the birth of the new, midwifing the efforts of community members as we generate something that needs to exist to fulfill a vision that is articulated as we create it.

The tools we use include both the traditional legal and fiscal accountability systems and something that we are co-creating with our visionary partners in the community. Those new tools are also being articulated as we create them.

We do all of this in the name of a sustainable community, including elements of the past, the now, and the future.

We invite your joyful collaboration with us as, together, we create a world worth living in.” From Lianne Thompson, Board Secretary


Fulcrum is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax exempt corporation.
All donations are tax-deductible.


Mission Statement: Fostering the transition of the Nehalem Bay community to a sustainable future.

Purpose & Goals:

• Manifest the deep interconnectedness and community that is the heart of sustainability... for our grandchildren.

• Initiate and sponsor projects that assist transition of the Nehalem Bay community of coastal Oregon to a sustainable future.

• Provide fiscal sponsorship (i.e. 501c3 tax exempt status) for funding for compatible groups and projects.

• Organize and network among local organizations, as well as connect us all to the outside world.

• Develop support services to simpatico local groups, projects, and events as an umbrella. These services may include access to bookkeeping, legal resources, liability insurance, bulk mailing and computer graphics capabilities and, someday, even office space.