Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell's passion for helping society's most vulnerable children grew from his own experience as a youth living in inner-city Portland. Those experiences eventually led to his founding of four children's organizations: Youth Resources, The Children's Course, the Children's Institute, and a mentoring organization, which has national recognition, Friends of the Children. Friends of the Children hires full-time professional mentors called Friends who each work with eight children. Friends of the Children stays with each child from first grade through high school. "I was one of those children," Campbell says of the youth served by Friends of the Children. "I believe," says Campbell, "people have a responsibility to reach back and take care of other people who are less fortunate, who by no choice of their own, are in unfortunate circumstances."

Friends of the Children serves approximately 600 children nationally in 7 communities across the United States: Portland and Klamath Falls, OR, Seattle, Cincinnati, New York, San Francisco, and Boston. It is recognized as a model mentoring program for seriously at-risk children throughout the country.

Early in his career, Duncan was employed as a child-care worker for juvenile offenders at the Donald Long Home in Portland and at the Skipworth Detention Home in Eugene, Oregon. He has worked on the Governor's Children Agenda, was Chairman of the Multnomah County Juvenile Services Commission, was a founding board member of Children First, and is involved with the Thrive Forum. In addition, he was a delegate to the President's Summit for America's Future, and has been a speaker at the White House for the Helping America's Youth Initiative.

Duncan has more than 30 years of timberland investment and forest industry experience. He is the Founder and Chairman of The Campbell Group. He holds a B.S. degree and a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from the University of Oregon and is an Attorney at Law and a CPA. Duncan has been very active in a variety of leadership and civic roles.

Thrive Foundation Board

Raquel Burgos
Duncan Campbell
Bob King
Dottie King
Ulrico Rosales

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