Prineville Data Center, Prineville, OR (2025)

08/04/2025

Every Child Central Oregon’s mission is to provide love, care and support for vulnerable children and the families who care for them in Central Oregon. Their Meta Data Center Community Action grant is supporting the well-being of children and families impacted by foster care in Crook County through the My NeighbOR program, providing essential resources and community connections to enhance stability, safety, and overall well-being.

It was great to see their space and hear about the incredible work they’re doing in Prineville and Crook County.

07/15/2025

We recently stopped in at NeighborImpact to learn more about their mission and to see how their Data Center Community Action Grant is helping deliver fresh, nutritious food to those in need, breaking down barriers to access and bridging the gap for individuals facing food insecurity in Prineville and Crook County.

07/11/2025

🤠 We don’t know about you, but we’re still smiling from the great time and amazing turnout we had at the Stampede Street Party! It was great to connect with so many friends and enjoy the cattle drive, food and music!

Thanks to Explore Prineville for putting on such a great event and to everyone who showed up to celebrate our community’s heritage. We are proud to call Prineville home!

07/04/2025

🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July from all of us at the Prineville Data Center 🇺🇸

06/11/2025

Earlier this year, we announced our 2025 Data Center Community Action Grant recipients and then celebrated their projects and impactful work that’s making a difference in our community. Here are some more amazing photos from our April ceremony.

📸 Olive and Blu Photography

05/21/2025

GRANT LOOK BACK! 🐴 Last year, we partnered with Crook County School District to support the construction of a new classroom at Horses on the Ranch.

HORSES on the Ranch works to cultivate and inspire personal journeys of healing and growth through trauma-informed, evidence-based and integrative equine-assisted programs. They offer individual and group therapy sessions for children and adults to support and facilitate healing from depression, anxiety, grief, PTSD, substance abuse and recovery, behavioral and social difficulties, and many other conditions. Their programming supports communication, collaboration, social-emotional skills, anti-bullying, resilience, teamwork, and leadership. We’re proud to support their impactful work.

And, how did the project go? We think it turned out pretty great!

05/09/2025

Did you know that more than 200 million companies, mainly small businesses, use our technologies to reach customers each month?

During this , we’d like to extend a special thanks to a few of the small businesses that support our team including Stone Pine Pizza, Swig and Stone, Sandwich Factory, Donner Flower Shop, and Bleu Bite Catering! And another shoutout to all the small businesses that supported our Data Center Community Action Grants ceremony this year Granny Bird's, Chickybellas, Prineville / Redmond Coffee Company, Boots and Blooms Floral, and Olive and Blu Photography! Remember to .

05/07/2025

We were proud to support the Bend Chamber’s 8th Annual Bend ET Summit, which supports the development and growth of emerging leaders from across Central Oregon. By investing in our people we are investing in the long-term vitality of our community.

04/23/2025

ICYMI: We celebrated 18 grant recipients at our annual Data Center Community Action Grant Ceremony. These local schools and nonprofits across Crook County are putting the power of technology to use for community benefit, building strong, sustainable communities, and improving STEAM education, and we’re proud to support their work.

A special thanks to the local small businesses that made this ceremony extra special: Granny Bird's Chickybellas Prineville / Redmond Coffee Company Boots and Blooms Floral Olive and Blu Photography

04/17/2025

Last week, we had the opportunity to support the Crook County School District Family Robotics Night – an amazing night attended by hundreds of families from across our community. It’s great to see how investments in schools’ STEAM education impacts so many from elementary through high school.

04/10/2025

This week, we celebrated our 2025 Meta Data Center Community Action Grant recipients at the Prineville Data Center — and it was a joy to bring together this year’s grant recipients, community partners, Meta team members, and local leaders!

Through our Data Center Community Action Grants program, Meta provides funding for nonprofits and schools — addressing critical community needs by putting the power of technology to use for community benefit, giving people the power to build strong, sustainable communities, improving local STEAM education — to support the long-term vitality of Crook County. Here’s a little more on this year’s projects:

CASA of Central Oregon: To support Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) for children in foster care in Crook County. In FY 2023-24, 83% of eligible children in care had the benefit of CASA’s advocacy.

Central Oregon Trail Alliance: To provide key park features, including refurbishing the start deck, adding wood lips to the jumps, and improving drainage throughout the Prineville Bike Park.

Children's Museum of Central Oregon: To provide a dressed vehicle for our mobile museum, which brings hands-on STEAM education to underserved communities across Central Oregon through traveling exhibits and workshops.

Crook County Historical Society/A.R. Bowman Memorial Museum & Crook County Historical Society: To provide an upgraded technology infrastructure to better serve the patrons of Prineville and ensure the safety and preservation of our archival collections.

Crook County Kids Club: To provide K through fifth-grade students with enriching out-of-school activities and providing families with a supervised program for their students.

Crook County Parks and Recreation Foundation: To provide a spare bike fleet, maintenance, and method of transport for a variety of sizes for athletes to use for the season or when their bikes break down during the season.

Crook County School District: To provide CCHS science classes with upgraded sensors to capture precise data on pressure, temperature, force and acceleration, motion, and other physical phenomena.

Crook County School District: To provide two flight simulators for instruction at Crook County High School.

Crook County Sheriff's Search and Rescue: To provide three Starlink Roam Mini Satellites, associated hardware and two years of satellite service. One for Command Trailer and two for rigs.

Every Child Oregon: To provide essential tangible needs and community support to children and families impacted by foster care in Crook County through the My NeighbOR program, enhancing their stability, safety and well-being.

Family Access Network:To provide for low-income children in Crook County through FAN’s client funds. Client funds allow our advocates the flexibility to address emerging needs in order to best serve vulnerable children and families.

High Desert Food & Farm Alliance: To provide video conference capabilities in our new office that will foster an environment of inclusivity for our hybrid Board of Directors, Food Security Advisory and Agricultural Advisory Committees Meetings.

High Desert Museum: To provide improvements to local STEAM education by engaging rural families in hands-on workshops that foster curiosity for local ecosystems and encourage sustained interest in STEAM fields.

MountainStar Family Relief Nursery: To provide a new playground at our Prineville center. This playground will have interactive STEAM materials and a new fence around it for the safety of the children we serve.

NeighborImpact: To provide fresh, nutritious food with low barriers to access to individuals facing food insecurity in Prineville and Crook County.

Powell Butte Community Charter School: To provide a comprehensive elementary social studies curriculum and 10 LabQuest 3 STEAM field units, enhancing middle school STEAM education and meeting critical educational needs.

SMART Reading: To provide reading support and books to keep for 180 kids at three sites in Prineville: Crooked River Elementary, Ochoco Head Start and Prineville Head Start. We will give away 2,500 books!

Think Wild Central Oregon: To provide wildlife education, emphasizing applied science, conservation, native wildlife and hands-on field experiences, meeting NGSS.

03/26/2025

Today, on International Data Center Day, we reflect on the 2024 Meta Data Center Community Investments. Meta has been honored to have helped advance the work of hundreds of schools, nonprofit organizations and small businesses in our 27 data center communities across the United States, Europe and Asia through direct funding, volunteering and our community programs. Learn more: https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024InReview

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