Sheri Eckert Foundation

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.

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!

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

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