COLUMBIAMEMORIAL.ORG Late Summer 2025 7 M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust awards CMH $400,000 grant The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust recently awarded CMH $400,000 for the BuildCMH capital campaign — one of the larger contributions awarded during its current grant cycle. The gift furthers a 20-year partnership with the trust that started with a $50,000 grant to upgrade the trauma system in the Emergency Department in 2005. The relationship deepened with a $300,000 grant to the CMH-OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative in 2018. Now, with this $400,000 grant toward CMH’s expansion, the Murdock Trust has donated a total of $750,000 to CMH over the past two decades and has solidified itself as one of the top capital contributors to the organization. “We want to thank the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust and their Board of Trustees for recognizing the value of this project,” says Mark Kujala, executive director of the CMH Foundation, “and continuing our strong partnership focused on bringing quality health care to the North Coast community.” Behind the process Beginning in 2024, Junia Stephens, donor specialist for the CMH Foundation, coordinated the grant request to fund resiliency measures in the hospital expansion. The application relied on detailed information supplied by the BuildCMH project team, CMH executive leadership, the Finance and Marketing departments, and directors throughout the organization to produce a comprehensive proposal. An on-site presentation outlining the request followed early this year. Several members of the CMH executive team, the Board of Trustees and the Foundation Board of Directors participated in an interview and tour of the campus with the Murdock Trust Senior Program Officer before CMH was notified of the award in early May. The Murdock Trust partners with nonprofit organizations across the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Jack Murdock, co-founder of Tektronix, with a $91 million investment in 1975, the trust has grown to help fund more than $1.5 billion in grants to nonprofits over the last half century. The trust believes in developing strategic relationships with their nonprofit partners, and CMH has been the beneficiary of the growing relationship, Kujala says. FOUNDATION FEATURE We want to thank the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust and their Board of Trustees for recognizing the value of this project,” says Mark Kujala, executive director of the CMH Foundation, “and continuing our strong partnership focused on bringing quality health care to the North Coast community.”
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