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November 22, 2024

Wine Industry Advisor – ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir Auction Raises Record-Breaking $1.4 Million

The Oregon wine community’s premier philanthropic event, ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir Auction, concluded its 33rd annual celebration with unprecedented success, raising an extraordinary $1.4 million to support healthcare services for vineyard stewards and their families. The two-day event brought together wine enthusiasts, industry leaders and philanthropists in a powerful demonstration of community support for Oregon’s vineyard stewards.

This record-breaking achievement reflects the incredible generosity and commitment of our wine community,” said Stephanie Buchanan, Manager of Development & Communications at Hillsboro Medical Center Foundation. “Every dollar raised translates to three dollars worth of essential healthcare services for the dedicated individuals who are the backbone of the wine industry.

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June 22, 2023

The Oregonian – ¡Salud! Auction announces venue changes for 2023

Thank you to Michael Alberty from The Oregonian/OregonLive for highlighting the exciting changes to ¡Salud! Oregon Pinot Noir Auction for 2023!

“The annual ¡Salud! Oregon Pinot Noir Auction has big moves in store this year. The Grand Dinner & Live Auction Gala, the culminating event of ¡Salud!, is moving from the heart of Willamette Valley wine country to the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Portland this November.”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

January 5, 2023

$1.3 Million Raised – Record-breaking Success!

Life-changing fundraising for accessible, affordable healthcare

After two years of virtual events, the energy was electric at the 2022 ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir Auction with record-breaking fundraising of over $1.3 million!

We are so grateful for the overwhelming support from generous donors, sponsors and event guests to help sustain this program which provides healthcare services to vineyard stewards and their families.

Want to relive those auction moments? Follow us on Instagram.

For information on future auction events, please visit www.saludauction.org/auction.

July 13, 2022

Willamette Week’s Best of Portland 2022 Best Sips

Thanks to Andrea Damewood for including ¡Salud! in Willamette Week’s Best of Portland edition in the Best Sips category.

Read the full story here.

Learn more about ¡Salud!’s mission to make healthcare accessible and affordable for vineyard stewards and their families. Here. 

July 21, 2020

“Amid a Health Crisis, ¡Salud! Puts Farmworkers First” – Wine Enthusiast

“This is the first part of these vineyard employees’ afternoon with ¡Salud!, a one-of-its-kind preventative health care service supported exclusively by Oregon’s winemaking community. ¡Salud! was founded in 1991 by Tuality Healthcare and a handful of producers concerned about how their seasonal workforce could gain access to basic healthcare, since they are not eligible for employer-sponsored plans due to the temporary nature of their work.”

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April 24, 2019

How your support helps – 2018 ¡Salud! Service Impact Report

Did you know that 100% of the funding for ¡Salud! Services comes from ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir Auction and other donations? Your investment makes healthcare, education and year-round support for Oregon’s vineyard workers and their families possible, and we are so grateful. We’d like to share exactly how your help made a difference in 2018.

Mobile Wellness Clinics

May through September, these free clinics take place in the vineyard, or central winery locations via the ¡Salud! mobile unit, eliminating barriers to care many workers face such as transportation, cost and language. Wellness clinics are staffed by bi-lingual, bi-cultural employees of OHSU Tuality Healthcare and include screenings for cholesterol, blood glucose, blood pressure, body mass index and more. Wellness clinics allow us to develop relationships with workers, and learn their needs in order to serve them best.

Year-Round Support Services

Mobile clinics are the most visible project your support enables, but behind-the-scenes at the hospital in Hillsboro, Oregon, we’re working to provide a high-level of individual support through…
  • Case management to families and individuals by providing education, guidance, and support to clients and advocating for their needs within the healthcare system.
  • Promote proactive health behaviors such as prenatal care, routine dental examinations and cleanings, and annual women’s health exams.
  • Access to and delivery of primary care and other healthcare services including major medical, prenatal, dental, and vision.
  • Help to establish and maintain working relationships with private healthcare providers to facilitate access to care, particularly in counties where community health centers are not available or services are not provided.
  • Participation and collaboration with other partners to improve minority health in Oregon.
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November 13, 2018

Record-breaking event season! More than $1 Million raised

Thank you for your incredible support

We are pleased to announce that the 2018 ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir Auction season raised $1,055,000 to provide healthcare and outreach services to the hardworking men and women of Oregon’s vineyards. This is a new record for the event, and the first time ¡Salud! has raised more than $1 million.

Thank you to our generous sponsors, donors, winemakers, guests and volunteers who helped make the Big Board Auction & Pinot Party at Ponzi Vineyards on Friday, November 9 and the Grand Dinner & Live Auction on Saturday, November 10 at Domaine Serene such a success.

Relive the event activities with photos and video

View photos from Kathryn Elsesser

View photos from Andrea Johnson Photography

October 20, 2018

Snooth covers ¡Salud!

“Wine is people. I’m not talking about the people with whom you enjoy wine. Here I refer to the people behind the wine – those folks we ought to celebrate as the literal fruits of their labor coat our palates. We talk a lot about wine on this site, but I’d like to take a moment to express gratitude to the farm workers who work so hard to get the grapes in our glasses.

In this spirit, I’d like to talk about ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir Auction. A group of wineries is Oregon joined together in the early 90s to help provide better access to quality healthcare for vineyard workers. That’s one of many things I love about the wine industry – quality regions always band together to make great things happen.”

Thank you to Mark Angelillo and Snooth.com for their coverage of ¡Salud! and select ¡Salud! Cuvées.

August 14, 2018

VICE Magazine covers ¡Salud!

“How One Industry Gives Healthcare to Its Hard-to-Reach Migrant Workers”

With stories from ¡Salud! Founder, Nancy Ponzi, and an update from ¡Salud! Services manager, Leda Garside, VICE Magazine illustrates why ¡Salud! is important now more than ever.

“That stress of living in this uncertainty, it adds a lot,” she said. “You were promised one thing and went from one area of hope and now we are in an area of, we don’t know. That creates a lot of stress, and that stress is reflected physically.” – Leda Garside, RN, MBA, ¡Salud! Services Manager

Thank you to VICE Magazine reporter Emily Gillespie and photographer Toni Greaves for accompanying ¡Salud! Services to a mobile health clinic in the summer of 2018.

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July 2, 2018

Oregon Wine Press – “¡Salud! Goes Online”

Thanks to Oregon Wine Press for helping spread the word about the new Summertime ¡Salud! E-Auction, July 17 -19.

“For those wine enthusiasts who anticipate the annual ¡Salud! Oregon Pinot Noir Auction, waiting for November to arrive to bid on some of the best Pinot Noir in the state, we have good news: This year, the organization is welcoming a new online auction to its 2018 event season.”

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