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Cruz for a Cure

Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009

Time: 12:00am - 4:00pm

Location: Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave Portland, OR 97218 Phone: (503) 287.5800

Description: Cruise-In • BBQ • Live Bands • Kids Games • Special Guests

There will be Cruise-In trophies for: Antiques, Classics, Muscle Cars, Sports Cars, Imports, Trucks, Convertibles, Street Machines, Daily Driver, Motorcycles and More... ($20 entry fee to display your vehicle. Proceeds to benefit Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure)

Sponsored by Boobie Doobies Walk Team

Help keep Portland Parks pesticide-free!

Saturday, August 29, 10:00 until noon Hillside Park (653 NW Culpepper Terr)

Sunday, August 30, 1:00 until 3:00 Midland Park (SE 122nd and Morrison)

We will be replacing the use of pesticides by weeding in the park.Tools and gloves will be provided. Families are welcome.

Please respond to [email protected] or 503-423-7549 if you have any questions.We hope to see you there!

Facebook members!Portland Pesticide Free-Parks now has a group on Facebook. Join and find out about upcoming events and all the latest news.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67355551829&ref=mf

Kids Helping Kids

Local Teen Marimba Band Performing at Africa Bridge Harvest Gala to Support Children in Tanzania

WHO:               The Greater Portland Community

In honor of Youth Progress Association's 45th anniversary we are presenting a 1964 Sock-hop gala fundraiser with guest emcee Mr. Steve Novick.

The event takes place on September 17th at the Melody Ballroom. Period dress is encouraged (think “Mad Men”, not Woodstock) and guests will dine on hamburgers, hot dogs, and 60’s style appetizers. Music played throughout the event, from cocktails to the dance, will all be 1964 releases. There will also be several items to be raffled off.

Individual tickets are $75 and sponsorship opportunities are available. All proceeds will benefit YPA’s amazing programs which provide youth the skills necessary to become successful community members.

Date And Time 9/17/2009 7:00 PM TO 11:00 PM

Portland, OR (August 25, 2009) – The loss of sight or hearing can have a devastating impact on a person’s life and livelihood. Every year, the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation helps over 120,000 youth and adults in Oregon with sight or hearing needs that might otherwise fall through the cracks in our healthcare system.

When: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Where: St. Francis Dining Hall - 1182 SE Pine St. - Portland, OR

Local pedal-power and sail-power activists will follow up their meetings and efforts regarding food transport leading up to and during the Village Building Convergence last June.  A "Portland Food Security System" must have simple, sustainable transport for food year round.  No one can assume that plentiful food will always be shipped in from far away, using petroleum.  So in addition to local transport using human power and wind in sails, issues of food cultivation, gathering and preservation need to be addressed for adding these elements to the system. 

Basic components such as farms, CSA's, community gardens, bike carts, and sail boats can be linked, as we have already demonstrated, and made long-term and expanded with added resources such as back yard produce/fruit tree sharing, depaving, food-not-lawns, canoes on the river, and more.  A question inspired by Cuba's urban farming success: can Portland be transformed into a food forest relatively soon?  Join us.  This event is free and open to the public.

Portland-based White Bird Dance is offering two student internship positions. This is an unparalleled opportunity to learn about—and substantially take part in—the operations of a successful arts organization.

ACLU of Oregon Internship Opportunities

The Oregon Affiliate of the ACLU seeks applicants for the position of Legal Request Counselor. The ACLU is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of civil liberties and civil rights. We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include litigation, education, and lobbying.

Experienced Grants Consultant Alyssa Hanada

Alyssa has five years experience developing grant proposals and raised $4 million for community services in Oregon and SW Washington.  She has worked on a variety of programs in fields that include:

·        Children and youth

·        Disabilities

·        Education/Family Literacy

·        Health care and HIV/AIDS

·        Homelessness

·        Job training and small business development

We have a tall, deep, five-drawer filing cabinet that we would like to donate to a non-profit organization.It's second-hand but in really good shape, drawers run smoothly. Light-color, metal.

Holds tons of stuff!  We can possibly deliver, but prefer you to pick up. We're in Tigard.  Need it gone before Sept 1st ideally.Thanks!

Britta & Tim

[email protected]

Bag & Baggage Productions, Hillsboro's only professional theatre company, is launching two new programs to help other nonprofit organizations raise funds, and have a great evening for your guests at the theatre at the same time.

BENEFIT NIGHTS - where $5 of every ticket goes to YOUR charity organization

NONPROFIT NIGHTS - buy a special performance and resell tickets at a large profit

Details:

BENEFIT NIGHTS

One performance of each of our 4 productions in the beautiful Venetian Theatre will be designated as a "benefit night", wherein a chosen charity will receive $5 of every ticket sold to that performance. With nearly 400 seats available, that's potentially about $2000 contribution to the charity.

On Friday September 11th, United We Serve volunteers will help clean out and set-up the Seniors Emergency Food Program at Neighborhood House, a social services organization in SW Portland. This program will be a satellite of our general Emergency Food Box Program, and will be a place that seniors can come for their specific dietary and nutritional needs. On September 11th from 10:00am-2:00pm, volunteers will clean the room, assemble shelves, and stock the shelves with food. Volunteers will be divided between this location and our general Emergency Food Box Program, helping to stock shelves there. Up to 15 volunteers welcome. Please contact Brean at [email protected] or 503-246-1663 x117 if you can help.