Oregon Volunteers is currently accepting Concept Papers that address the availability of funding for the operation of a full AmeriCorps program (the equivalent of 10 or more full time positions), or a Planning Grant.

If you are thinking about applying for one of these grants, Oregon Volunteers is hosting technical assistance calls to help you navigate the process. Calls will be held on March 12, 15 and 22; you must make a reservation 3 days in advance to participate in one of these calls.

To make a reservation to participate in a technical assistance call, please email Patricia Bollin at [email protected] or call (503) 725-8334.

Join the Pacific Center for Global Justice as we launch our nine-month series on one of the more complex, significant, hopeful, and yet elusive phenomena of our age: global justice. While the world appears to be shrinking ala globalization, our lives seem to be increasingly more fragmented. Many of us yearn for a deeper connection to our families, our neighbors, our work, and our planet.

How does a better understanding of global justice strengthen the bonds between us? How can we be more effective working for justice on a vast scale? The Pacific Center for Global Justice offers participants this nine-month program as a way to integrate some of the more fruitful dimensions of justicemaking using an integrative approach of contemplation, analysis, and action.

Set aside a day for reflection, analysis, dialogue and inspiration as we consider the concept of global justice and our role as justicemakers. How do we define "global justice?" Is it an abstract construct or a deeply personal aspect of the human experience? What role do we, or should we play to confront global injustice, and what is the best approach?

These are some of the questions that we will address in our dialogue together. Come bring your wisdom and experience to this community of learning as we explore the many paths to justicemaking from the local to the global.

Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010 Time: 9-4:30PM Location: TBD Fee: $65 (scholarships available)

Empowering the People:  Is a truly sustainable society achievable as long as corporate rights trump the rights of people? * Paul Cienfuegos Lecture and Reception

Friday February 26th, 2010

First Unitarian Church, Eliot Chapel; 12th and SW Salmon, Portland

6:00 p.m.  Doors open/7:00 p.m.  

Lecture by Paul Cienfuegos

$5 to $15 at the door no one turned away

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join us at PSU for:  Organizational Chaos, Individual Resilience: The Art of Recovery in the Workplace  with Wayne Scott, MA

Fr March 5 8:30-4 pm

Oregon’s social service agencies and workers have experienced unprecedented blows in the last eight years. Agencies have downsized in staggering numbers, creating symptoms in professionals similar to post-traumatic conditions with livelihoods assaulted or threatened and professional identities and commitments shaken.

Our first big Event! March 20th between 10am and 2pm @ St David's Episcopal Church/2800 SE Harrison.

Come check out the fledgling Southeast Portland Tool Library(opening in May) where you’ll be able to borrow home and garden tools for FREE!

Enjoy coffee, tea and treats, meet your neighbors, and get a sneak preview of the library. We’ll also be hosting a raffle for a free energy audit, a gift card to Seven Dees, and other prizes.

We need more tools! To help our inventory grow, clean out your garage for spring and donate gently used tools (donations are tax deductible).

Individual Non profit help needed. Looking for an intern or some one who is savy with social networking, web hosting, other related stuff and research on presentation possibilities. My name is jacki gethner (home.earthlink.net/~jackigethner). This last november, I received the kaiser national diversity award for my work in HIV/AIDS. It came with an award which I am using to put a new program that will be 90% self supporting in oregon with hopes of national attention. I am also working on several other projects including a collaboration with 2 other wonderful women that would allow us to take our 60 combined years of experiences related to many things but primarily HIV/AIDS “on the road”.

Gateway to College National Network (GtCNN) is a fast-growing education nonprofit organization with partner programs in 16 states. The National Network is replicating the Gateway to College model and a new program called Project DEgree with support from national foundations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wal-Mart Foundation, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and The Kresge Foundation. Gateway to College was founded at Portland Community College and now operates at 27 colleges partnering with over 115 school districts. Rapid growth is expected to continue. More information about Gateway to College is available at: www.gatewaytocollege.org

I have about 200 size D batteries (about 1 5-gallon bucket), with at least 85% of the energy left in each, available for pick up. Must take them all.

Please contact [email protected] for more info. Thank you.

The Southeast Portland Tool Library needs a logo! We’re asking for submissions/ideas for a logo for SEPTL. The contest is open to anyone with a good idea who longs for the glory and bragging rights associated with designing a fantastic logo for the SE community’s tool library!

The logo should be simple, look good in both color and black and white, and fit well on our website, banners, and t-shirts.

Deadline is short: Ideally we’d like something by March 19th. How awesome would it be to see YOUR logo on t-shirts throughout Portland? For more info, contact us @ www.septl.org.

Monday, March 1st, 10:30AM - 11:30AM

MAY WALK+BIKE TO SCHOOL CHALLENGE MONTH WORKSHOP

Location: BELMONT LIBRARY BRANCH (1038 SE 39th Ave, between Hawthorne and Belmont)

The Portland Safe Routes to School team is hosting three free Walk+Bike to School Challenge Month workshops throughout Portland. The workshops provide parents, volunteers, and school staff the tools, resources, and tips needed to organize a successful month-long program.

The Harmony Montessori Preschool Auction takes place on this Saturday, February 27, 2010, at the Oaks Park Pavilion, 5-10 pm.

At Garden Partners, we enhance the health and well-being of elders and at-risk youth through community-based therapeutic gardening programs.

We need your help to get our gardens ready for the Spring and Summer growing seasons! In order to get a lot of work done in a short amount of time, we host Garden Work Parties at each of our program sites. These are fun, family-friendly events where volunteers and garden enthusiasts can spend an afternoon gardening for a good cause!

Upcoming Work Parties:

* Sunday, March 14th: 1:00 - 3:30 -- Morrison Early Childhood Garden

* Sunday, March 28th: 1:00 - 3:30 -- Regency Park Assisted Living

* Sunday, April 11th: 1:00 - 3:30 -- West Hills Village Retirement Community

If you’re a professional photographer, or aspiring to be one, and want an amazing image for your portfolio, the Portland Symphonic Choir has an amazing opportunity for you! PSC is the largest, most experienced choir in the area. We’re looking for a talented photographer to take portraits of the Choir. Think of it – 120 people in tuxedos and gowns who actually know all about posing, presence and professionalism. If your image is selected by the Choir for use you’ll receive full photo credits in all our materials and on our website. Give it your best shot – we can make beautiful music together!

POSITION SUMMARY: The After-School Club Volunteer will help OMSI Outreach staff offer fun, hands-on science learning experiences to elementary and middle school students. After-school clubs meet for hour-long sessions once per week for six or more weeks.

Currently, a volunteer is needed to assist with the after-school club at the French American International School in Northwest Portland for the remainder of the school year. The club meets from on Wednesdays from 3:45 - 4:45 p.m. Typically OMSI is onsite for a half hour before and a half hour after each session, setting up and tearing down. Transportation can be provided to and from the museum.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Data Collection Volunteer conducts surveys to learn more about guests’ impressions of their OMSI visit(s). This data is used to inform improvements to OMSI's guest experience, with the goal of increasing repeat visitation to OMSI.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Conduct surveys in a timely and precise manner. • Interact with guests in a respectful and engaging way. • Collect reliable data.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Accompany OMSI staff in greeting group buses and briefing groups on daily agenda • Escort Group during visit to OMSI and create a nurturing environment in which groups are enticed to explore the Museum • Know layout of the museum, be prepared to answer questions, and adaptable enough to direct students to areas which may interest them. • Interact with students and encourage them as they engage in lab and hall activities • Keep informed about museum exhibits, programs and special events • Report to OMSI staff any problems that arise during visit • Know Museum emergency procedures