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The mission of the Sheri Eckert Foundation (SEF) is to ensure that Oregon’s evolving psychedelic ecosystem includes professionals and participants from diverse backgrounds, financial means, and geographies around the state.

11/19/2025

For those of you who don’t know our story…

The Sheri Eckert Foundation was established in 2021 to honor Sheri’s legacy and fulfill a clearly stated wish.

Measure 109 co-creator Sheri Eckert, who passed away in December of 2020, spoke frequently of generating support for “equitable access to psychedelic education and services.” In her words, she wanted to create an institution that, “guided by on-the-ground community leaders, would allocate resources to support facilitator training, community education, and service delivery for often underserved populations.”

We are thankful to Sheri and everything that she did. She will be remembered by the psychedelic community, and a wider audience as well, for championing the unique spirit residing in each of us, and for having helped deliver the nation’s first above-ground psychedelic therapy framework, a statewide program indelibly infused with her characteristic perseverance, integrity, competence, and, above all, her loving, inclusive embrace.

11/13/2025

The Community Leaders Resilience Fund supports those responsible for the health and wellbeing of their communities by reducing financial and logistical barriers to accessing state-legal plant medicine facilitation services.

The CLR Fund was created from the desire to give back to non-profit, governmental, religious, environmental, and other social leaders by helping them address the overwhelm, burnout, and other psycho-spiritual challenges related to uplifting community health.

It is also our hope that this work will support community leaders to reinvigorate their work and sense of purpose. In times of great transition and increasing complexity, we believe that supporting community leaders in their psychological and spiritual resilience is vital for ensuring the health and wellbeing of society and our planet.

Scholarships of up to $3,300 per individual will be awarded to those currently in community leadership positions towards accessing state-regulated group facilitation services. Recipients will be connected with vetted service providers, access to mentors for preparation and ongoing integration support, as well as assistance with lodging during the journey week.

For more information about the CLR Fund and how to apply or donate, please go to our website by clicking the link in our bio!

11/12/2025

To be eligible to apply for our Inward Dive Fund, we define justice-impacted broadly — including but not limited to:

- Family members and loved ones of arrested or incarcerated people

- Law enforcement personnel (police officers, sheriffs, deputies)

- Attorneys working in the criminal legal system (public defenders, defense attorneys, prosecutors)

- Policy and advocacy workers focused on criminal justice reform (campaign staff, organizers, policy analysts)
People who were previously incarcerated (“returned citizens”)

- People under community supervision (parole, probation, pretrial)

- People who have been arrested or charged, regardless of conviction status

- Corrections professionals (correctional officers/prison guards, jail staff)

- Community supervision officers (parole and probation officers)

If you think you might qualify, even if you don’t neatly fall into one of the above groups, please email us to confirm your eligibility — there’s a good chance we’ll deem you eligible!

In addition to the primary criteria of justice-impacted and financial need, the fund prioritizes applicants who come from communities that may not typically have access to this form of healthcare, which we define broadly (i.e. where someone lives, age, race, ethnicity, cultural barriers, occupation, physical and/or cognitive ability, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)

To learn more about or to donate to the foundation, please go to our website. The link is in our bio! Thank you for being here 🙏🏻

11/11/2025

To meet the demand for grants, continue our operations, and support our research and education work, we are seeking to raise $480,000 by November 29, 2025.

This funding will allow us to:

- Award 100 Psilocybin Access Fund grants ($150,000)
- Host Horizons Northwest 2026 ($50,000)
- Cover SEF staff and overhead ($120,000)
- Fund the “Healthcare Utilization” research project
($160,000)

To learn more about our work and the Oregon Model in contrast to the FDA pathway, check out the FDA Trials vs. State-Level Psychedelic Healthcare Model | The case for the Sheri Eckert Foundation and the Oregon Model.

Thanks to your support, we have a clear blueprint for building a more just, accessible, and evidence-based psychedelic healthcare system.

If you would like to know more about the foundation or how to help us reach our goal, please check out our website!
You can find the link in our bio!

11/05/2025

The mission of the Sheri Eckert Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit project, is to increase equitable access in the emerging state-regulated psychedelic healthcare movement.

6 highlights of our recent

1. Why state-level psychedelic research is likely revolutionary, but seemingly still a secret

2. Our Two New Funds: A combined $700,000 for justice-impacted individuals and leaders facing burnout

3. Our work in the news

4. Our Research Incubator: Powering the brightest spot of the psychedelic renaissance

5. The case for state-level psychedelic healthcare models (vs. FDA-only)

6. 2026 preview: Help us bring back Horizons Northwest

If you would like to know more about the foundation or our recent highlights, please check out our website.
You can find the link in our bio!

10/28/2025

The Sheri Eckert Foundation has been collaborating with a trio of research universities to fund, help organize, and catalyze real world research, the first of its kind, in Oregon’s legal and publicly available psilocybin services and therapy model. Our approach is increasing access to hundreds of people that otherwise cannot afford psychedelic therapy while creating the datasets necessary to advance the advent of psychedelic healthcare coverage – taking the field of therapeutic psychedelic services on a path familiar to other fields now covered, like acupuncture and naturopathy.

Once coverage is achieved - which we feel is inevitable but will take time – we will see the licensed service center model, powered by well trained and licensed practitioners, take off at an even more impactful scale. We believe this is the pathway to greater equitable access.

If you are interested in learning more about the research, the foundation, donating, or applying for resources please go to the link in our bio!

10/16/2025

When you donate, it goes to our three funds

1. Psilocybin Access Fund
2. Community Leaders Resilience Fund
3. Inward Dive Fund

These funds cover psilocybin facilitation costs for those in need of deep healing and who experience financial hardship and/or come from underserved communities.

We believe getting money directly to folks that want this medicine, but normally wouldn’t be able to access it, is the best solution now for creating more access and potential for healing.

While respecting and valuing underground pathways and the FDA pathway, we are committed to this new state-regulated framework and believe that psychedelic services and therapy rendered in this model can be more widespread, financially accessible, and without the legal risk.
And we’re under no illusion that philanthropy will last forever — we see these access funds.

Additionally, the SEF also sees the first-of-their-kind research projects the funds have helped catalyze, as an essential intermediary step as we work towards the arrival of insurance coverage for psilocybin therapy.

To learn more about our research incubator — the Psilocybin Therapy Insurance Initiative — which is designed to help accelerate insurance coverage for psychedelic medicine in legal state-regulated models. Or if you are interested in learning more about the funds, the foundation, donating, or applying for resources please go to the link in our bio!

05/16/2024

The Psilocybin Access Fund opened applications for grants to support legal psychedelic mushroom experiences in Oregon.

05/04/2024

It's alive! Thanks to our friends at for writing a great story about the launch of our Psilocybin Therapy Access Fund.

Anyone in the world can now apply to the fund to see if they are a good fit to be awarded a grant from us to receive psilocybin services/therapy in the world's first legal, government-licensed, and regulated model.

Please share far and wide that we're now accepting applications. Thank you, friends. And thanks to the countless people that have helped us make this dream a reality.

Check out the article: https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2024/04/applications-now-open-for-fund-to-increase-access-to-oregons-legal-psilocybin-program.html

Learn more about the fund: https://www.sherieckert.org/paf

04/25/2024

Greetings friends!

As spring has arrived, so has our new Impact Report as well as our long-awaited Psilocybin Access Fund.

In this Impact Report, we’ve compiled some quick hits on what we’ve been up to the past year and change and turned it into these graphics, for your viewing pleasure. Despite the infrequent social media posts, we’ve been busy.

And we’re jazzed to announce that applications for our Psilocybin Access Fund, which we’ve been working on for the past year, will be live on our website by the end of this month.

Why did we create the Psilocybin Access Fund?

We believe getting money directly to folks that want this medicine and want to work with professional state-licensed Psilocybin Facilitators, but normally wouldn’t be able to access it, is the best solution now for creating more access.

Our 2024 fundraising objective is to raise one million dollars to support the Psilocybin Access Fund and we’re about 20% to our goal. Our vision is a statewide “sliding scale” for psilocybin services in Oregon.

While respecting underground pathways and the psychedelic science community, we are committed to this new state-regulated framework and believe that psychedelic services and therapy rendered in this model can be more widespread, financially accessible, and without the legal risk.

Through our Psilocybin Access Fund, and other work at the foundation, we will be accelerating the path to broader access in the form of insurance coverage for psychedelic therapy in state regulated models. More on that can be found at http://sherieckert.org/paf

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Portland, OR
97086-97299

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http://www.sherieckert.org/

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