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High Desert Partnership supports initiatives that are restoring healthy forests and wetlands, mitigating wildfire, reshaping our youth’s experiences, and enhancing our local economy. We are fostering these outcomes through conversations and reshaping business as usual. 
See what we do.

FEATURED STORIES

  • Collaboration At Work
    Collaboration At Work

    We provide our partners with the resources they need to address the issues facing our community. Learn what our initiatives are doing to create change.

  • When it comes down to it, it's the people of the collaboratives that High Desert Partnership supports that make change happen. It's a dynamic group of people with various backgrounds and gifts. They are from within and outside Harney County and they share a passion for helping Harney County thrive socially, economically and ecologically. Here you'll find stories from the people doing the patient work of collaborating.

  • Get To Know Our Team
    Get To Know Our Team

    Meet the fantastic board and staff members that make High Desert Partnership tick.

  • Peter Walker, an author and faculty member of University of Oregon, wrote Sagebrush Collaboration about Harney County and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge militia occupation that took place in early 2016. This intensely researched book is a look at why the goals of this militia failed in Harney County. Little did Harney County residents know, but their decades of collaboration had built a strong, resilient community that contributed to them defeating a militant uprising.

  • Keep Up With HDP!
    Keep Up With HDP!

    Our newsletter and calendar are great ways to follow along with our organization and initiatives.

  • Our Roots
    Our Roots

    Ten years ago, High Desert Partnership spearheaded efforts to increase the use of collaboration in our community. Discover our history and how we remain true to our mission.

  • Team up with us and see what a huge difference! A little bit of your time can have a huge impact! Take action.

  • Give When You Shop
    Give When You Shop

    Amazon and Giving Assistant enable you to support the work of non-profits when you shop. They donate a small amount of the proceeds from every purchase at no cost to you. Learn how to join and support our work!

  • Jobs Created

    60

  • Partners Participating

    88

  • Funding Generated (Millions)

    $10

  • Initiative Projects Supported

    25

Our Mission

The High Desert Partnership exists to cultivate collaboration and support and strengthen diverse partners engaged in solving complex issues to advance healthy ecosystems, economic well-being and social vitality to ensure a thriving and resilient community.  Learn More. 

News & Notes

June 22, 2018
byHigh Country News

On the night of Jan. 26, 2016, Brenda Smith was nearing the end of a six-hour drive home from the Portland area to Burns, in Harney County, Oregon, basking in the knowledge that her scrappy nonprofit had just won a $6 million grant. The High Desert Partnership helps locals collaborate on natural resource management, and this was by far the biggest grant it had ever received. Read more . . .

April 12, 2018
byBurns Times-Herald

Youth Changing The Community's skate park project is moving right along. Learn more about how the project is progressing in this Burns Times-Herald article.

OUR INITIATIVES