Portland prides itself on its status as one of America’s greenest cities — but the benefits of living in a sustainable city are not distributed equally among its residents. When compared with its white population, Portland’s minorities tend to live in areas with poorer air quality and higher asthma rates. Minorities are also more likely to live in neighborhoods where the land is contaminated by past use and where it is harder to access natural areas. On January 22, City Club welcomes Willamette University Law Professors Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin for a discussion of sustainability and environmental justice.

The Community Consulting Program (CCP) is an outreach effort sponsored by the Organizational Development Network of Oregon and provides pro-bono consulting services to Portland area public benefit non-profits. CCP is accepting applications through January 29th for our Spring Round of consulting assistance. For more information, client testimonials, and to download the application, go to the ODN Oregon homepage and look for the CCP link on the left menu: www.ODNoregon.org

http://tinyurl.com/wildwed0110

What: Oregon Wild Wednesday – A free quarterly event open to all-ages. RSVP is not required, but we encourage you to arrive early.

When: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 6-7:30 pm

Who: John Daniel, award-winning Oregon author – and – Oregon Wild Old Growth Campaign Coordinator Chandra LeGue.

Where: Roots Organic Brewery, event room 1520 SE 7th Avenue Portland, OR 97214 www.rootsorganicbrewing.com

Idealist.org is a semi-finalist in the Chase Community Giving program, a competition being held on Facebook.  We are in the top 10. The top 5 orgs by this Friday, January 22nd will receive 1M each.If you are on Facebook, we are asking you to spare a moment and cast one of your 5 votes for us here: http://bit.ly/8PehoQ

(The page is experiencing a lot of traffic and may take a while to load, please be patient or reload it after a bit.)Please also take a moment to forward this message onto your friends, colleagues, and fellow idealists who are on Facebook.

Is one of your new year’s resolutions to find a sense of community and a more sustainable lifestyle? Are you seeking a family-friendly, transit and bike-oriented community? Then you may be interested in Daybreak Cohousing.

Meet members of Daybreak Cohousing, learn about cohousing and tour the community on Thursday, January 21 from 6:30-8 p.m. on site at 2525 N. Killingsworth Street. (#72 Killingsworth bus or Max to the Killingsworth station). Members have been moving into Daybreak and beautiful new homes are available for sale including 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units.

NW Visitors Productions, KBOO, and Mt. Tabor Theater present...

"Helping Haiti: A Community Concert for a Critical Cause"

Sunday, January 24

5:00-10:00pm

Mt. Tabor Theater and Lounge

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

www.taborpdx.com

21+

Sliding Scale Requested Donation: $5+

100% of concert and vending proceeds donated to aid earthquake-affected Haiti. Attendees choose one of five prescreened organizations to donate their entrance fee:

-Mercy Corps

-Mangrove Fund

-CARE

-Doctors Without Borders

-American Refugee Committee

Hello, I'm looking for an intern who enjoys researching, writing, and editing, and is strong in all those areas. The Idealist.org Graduate Education Research Intern will be helping to create content about graduate study outside of the United States so I am also looking for a candidate who has either lived abroad or gone to grad school or done both (separately or concurrently).

The internship is unpaid but Idealist.org provides a great working environment, flexible scheduling, and professional development opportunities among other perks.

Have you used Raiser's Edge before?  Are you comfortable with basic data entry?  Do you want to help respond to the Haiti disaster?   Mercy Corps is seeking volunteers who have used Raiser's Edge before to help us get donations for Haiti into our database.  The sooner our gifts are in the database, the faster the money gets to the field.  We'll train you on the specifics.  You'll need to be available during standard business hours (M-F, 9-5).   If you're interested, please email Faith Danforth at fdanforth at mercycorps dot org, or give me a call at 503-896-5789.   Thanks much, Faith     Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.

This week The ReBuilding Center of our united Villages is in need of volunteers to denial lumber salvaged from Portland buildings. We have several hundred feet of high quality lumber that is full of nails. We are in need of volunteers willing to pick up a hammer, pliers, and crowbars at our lumberyard warehouse located at 3625 N. Mississippi Ave, Portland. We have safety equipment and tools available to all volunteers. Our goal is to complete this project by Monday 25th.

Volunteers can check in any day during business hours without an appointment M-Sat 9-6pm Sun 10-5pm.

Questions refer to website www.rebuildingcenter.org or email Ty Schwoeffermann at [email protected] or call 503-467-4985