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On December 18, 2015, Congress voted to make the IRA Charitable Rollover benefit permanent.  This legislation includes a provision allowing direct gifts from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to the charity.  

If you are required to take a minimum distribution (RMD) from your IRA, you have the option to make that...

As a college freshman majoring in business, Kali Brandt called her parents to announce that she was switiching her major to biology.  "I was wondering when you were going to come to your senses," quipped her father, a zoologist.

The way she tells it, many of her classmates talked excitedly about...

The Wheeler Foundation has given ARCS Oregon and its supporters a big opportunity – it will match up to $10,000 in new underwriting or donations to the Scholar Awards Luncheon to be held in October. New underwriters have already come forward for the chapter’s signature event, the largest event of the...

Congratulations to OSU College of Engineering, ARCS scholar Elizabeth Holzenthal, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, coastal and ocean engineering.  Elizabeth was recently named a recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship, (GRFP). Elizabeth, a first year scholar, whose donors are Diane and Dick Alexander, is working on a project...

The date is set for the ARCS Oregon Chapter's Scholar Awards Luncheon at the Portland Art Museum.  Don’t miss the Chapter’s signature event and the opportunity to celebrate our ARCS scholars.  Dr. Jose Reyes, co-founder of NuScale Power and co-designer of the NuScale passively-cooled small nuclear reactor will be the keynote...

Congratulations to OSU College of Engineering, ARCS scholar Elizabeth Holzenthal, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, coastal and ocean engineering.  Elizabeth was recently named a recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship, (GRFP). Elizabeth, a first year scholar, whose donors are Diane and Dick Alexander, is working on a project aimed at...

A new model for endowments has proven successful for the Oregon Chapter – three new endowments were announced by President Joan Foley at the Scholar Awards Luncheon in early November.  Matching funds were offered by the three research partner universities supported by ARCS Oregon (OHSU, OSU, and UO).   Additional university matched...