A memorial service was held today at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Salem, Oregon, for Lee Tribbett. Lee and his family were founding Shangri-La members. Over the years Lee has worked at numerous Shangri-La vocational sites from the early days of bottle recycling in local grocery stores to the Cherry City Woodshop and several other [...]

The October issue of Oregon Business Magazine has published a list of the 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon. The results where revealed last night at a special event held in the Portland Art Museum and Shangri-La was ranked 29th among Large Organizations (those with more than 75 employees worldwide). The rankings are [...]

People helping people… that’s what Shangri-La is all about. It’s also nice to know we are not alone. On Wednesday, Sept. 7, a group of students and staff from George Fox University participated in “Serve Day” and took some time off from their busy lives to help set up a patio at one of Shangri-La’s [...]

Here is a great little slideshow of our Annual Shangri-La Camp Out this past summer held at Fishermen’s Bend in Oregon. Enjoy!

In the 1960′s, families across America yearned for better care for their children with developmental disabilities. In the wake of widely publicized social disasters, the institutions of that day did little more than create fear and remorse for families who were pressured into abandoning their little ones to hospital-like isolation, likely to be neglected or [...]