Copyrights for Artists and Creative Professionals

This workshop will provide a clear and comprehensive overview of what copyrights are and how to protect them. This will be an informative and interactive workshop, focusing on copyrights, providing practical information on various legal topics related to the protection of artwork and the related rights and responsibilities of creative service providers. All artists and creative professionals are encouraged to attend: painters, sculptors, photographers, print makers, designers, filmmakers, cartoonists, animators, craftspeople, writers, publishers, and others.                        

Help Dress for Success Oregon fill the “wall of wine” in their upcoming annual auction. Bring a bottle of red, white, rose or sparkling wine worth $15 or more to Bryn Forbes Gallery on April 12 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., and receive an evening of complementary wine and snacks. The best part? Your donation is 100% tax deductible.

For more information, visit http://womenforsuccess.wordpress.com/events/give-wine-get-wine/.

Saturday, April 2, 7:30 pm
The Little Church
5138 NE 23rd Ave, one block north of Alberta
Suggested donation $5-$10 at the door, to benefit the Brown Bag Food Project (no one turned away).

Living Earth is presenting activist/filmmaker Velcrowe Ripper's award-winning documentary "Scared Sacred," which follows Ripper's five-year journey to "ground zero" sites around the world. Beautifully filmed, the documentary captures Ripper's personal inquiry into how humans, in the midst of disaster, war, oppression, and pain, find meaning, courage, and beauty in life. From Bhopal to Israel, Cambodia to Bosnia and places beyond, Ripper's interviews and camera share the warmth and deep humanity of his subjects.

Join neighbors in Northwest and Southwest Portland as we prove that solar electricity works in Portland. Solarize Northwest is a community-led bulk purchasing program to educate homeowners about the benefits of solar electricity, and to allow them to purchase systems at incredible savings.  The last Solarize Northwest workshop takes place this Thursday, March 31st from 6:30-8:00 PM at Friendly House Community Center, 1737 NW 26th Ave. The deadline to sign up for a free site assessment is March 31st, and you can sign up at the workshop!

Ms. Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, to Speak in Portland

"It takes action to change our world. Simply worrying about problems is a
waste of energy." Jody Williams; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1997); Chair,
Nobel Women's Initiative; www.nobelwomensinitiativeorg

The Wholistic Peace Institute is offering several opportunities to learn
from Jody Williams:

Thursday, April 14th

World Peace Conference ~ Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction

and Landmines in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula

Concordia University; St. Michael's Church at

6700 NE 29th Avenue, Portland, Oregon

Noon - 4pm $25 Registration / Free For Students & Faculty

Given this period of limited public resources and political stalemate it is more important than ever that citizens take the lead within their circles to create a more sustainable culture.  The SE Uplift Neighborhood Sustainability Program will host Emily Klavins, Program Coordinator at the Center for Earth Leadership, to discuss: 1) this essential need for citizen involvement at the local level, 2) concrete examples of the diverse ways Portland citizens are already contributing and 3) how you might be involved.

Thusdary, April 7th

7 PM

SE Uplift

3534 SE Main St.

Please RSVP to tim@southeastuplift.org

Want to create a thriving, chemical free, low maintenance garden? Now
you can!

You'll learn how to design your landscape to conserve water, prevent
pollution and create healthy habitat for local birds & wildlife. Find
out how gardening with Native plants can save you time, money and
energy! Includes field trip to local Naturescaped garden. You'll receive
a comprehensive workbook and a FREE NATIVE PLANT to help you get started
on your project.

Naturescaping Basics

Sunday, April 3rd from 1:00-5:00pm

Reed College - Psychology Room 102/103

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd

Register online at www.emswcd.org/workshops-events.

Information: (503)935-5383

Every summer, the Renewable Northwest Project offers an internship to
students and recent graduates with renewable energy experience.

Applications for 2011 will be accepted from March 28 through April 18.

The Organization:
The Renewable Northwest Project is a nonprofit advocacy group based in
Portland, Oregon. RNP is a coalition of environmental and consumer
groups and energy developers who promote the implementation of clean,
renewable energy in the Northwest region (Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
and Montana). We work to get proposed wind, solar and geothermal
projects into the ground, push for policies promoting renewables and
energy efficiency, and nurture the market for green power.

Are you curious, thoughtful, organized, and ambitious? Do you want to share your passion for the
humanities with teachers, teens, and Oregonians from all walks of life? Do you want to support
Oregon Humanities in its efforts to connect Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform
communities?

The Muddy Boot Festival is seeking a Director for our 2011 festival. The Director will be responsible for planning and running the 2011 festival. The position entails soliciting and working with sponsors, organizing the keynote event, lining up vendors, setting up educational workshops, supervising music selection and booking, supervising a vendor/workshop coordinator, planning and managing the budget to ensure that the festival meets its revenue and expense projections, managing a volunteer planning committee, working with St. Philip Neri Parish staff members, and more.

The Oregon School-Based Health Care Network is seeking an upbeat, creative, and organized Operations Coordinator to implement mission-critical activities related to communications and publications, meeting and special events logistics, office management and record-keeping.
 

For more information and a full job description, please visit http://www.osbhcn.org/about/staff.
 

CODA has been building stronger families, safer neighborhoods, and healthier communities since 1969 through comprehensive behavioral treatment options for people in need of substance-abuse or mental health services.

Development Associate

The Job

Key responsibilities include development and management of a variety of statewide community-based fundraising activities, including events, direct mail, online giving and special campaigns.  In addition, the position will be required to support the grant-writing activity in the main office. The Development Associate is an integral member of the development team.

Our Work

Center for Earth Leadership to Host No-Cost Workshop:

Local Organizer's Toolkit:

Essential Knowledge for Change

Saturday, May 7, 2011

9:00am-12:00pm

Downtown Portland

This three-hour workshop is for those who seek to be effective agents of
change in creating a sustainable culture. Through the exploration of tested
principles and strategies used to create local change, participants gain
knowledge of how to advance a sustainability initiative by enlisting a core
group of colleagues.

We at Friends of Trees are always looking for volunteer tree-planters to help at our plantings, this weekend along I-205 at Johnson Creek Blvd. and the bikeway along NE Tillamook St.  Both events will begin at 9AM on Saturday, April 2nd, but we ask that volunteers show up at the staging site by  8:45 to register and fuel up with coffee and doughnuts/bagels/fruit.  For more detailed staging site information for either event, please see our online calendar.  The trees being planted along Tillamook will be 8-10' street tree stock, whereas the trees and shrubs being planted along I-205 will be younger native stock.