CNRG Networking Night  

When: Thursday, June 16th - 5:30-7 p.m. 

Where:  Floyd's Coffee Shop - 118 NW Couch St

Join Master of Ceremonies Carl Wolfson, host of "Carl in the Morning" on AM
620 KPOJ

as Roy Zimmerman

brings his latest political and hilarious folk music act to Portland to
benefit the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP - www.ocpp.org).

For over 20 years Roy has poked fun at ignorance, war and greed. His
wickedly inventive satirical songs
have appeared on HBO, Showtime and on NPR's "All Things Considered." Roy
also blogs on the Huffington Post.

“Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles
that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer” — L.A. Times

With pinking shears drawn and glue guns locked and loaded, a fierce group of competitors will battle for crafting supremacy at Rebel Craft Rumble. See what kick-ass crafts they’ll whip up and if they can seam-rip the title of Craft Master from last year’s winner, Sister Diane Gilleland. All bouts will be judged by local celebs.

Pedal through historic downtown Vancouver while admiring some of our most celebrated trees, during a special TreeTalk bike tour, Monday, June 20 as part of the Pedalpalooza festivities.

Starting promptly at 6 p.m., City of Vancouver Urban Forestry staff will lead an easy 4-mile guided Heritage Tree Bicycle Tour of the city’s notable trees. The mostly flat, enjoyable ride begins and ends at Esther Short Park, 600 S.W. Columbia St.

Bizhub Di5510 copier without a network card is available free to an organization that would like to come pick it up from southwest Portland. 

If you would like to arrange to pick up the copier during regular business hours, 9-5 Monday-Friday, please call Ron at 503.977.6846

Thanks!

June 8, 2011 -

Artists-in-residence explore the hidden lives of Portland's bridges

IRS Identifies Organizations that Have Lost Tax-Exempt Status; Announces
Special Steps to Help Revoked Organizations

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service today announced that
approximately 275,000 organizations under the law have automatically
lost their tax-exempt status because they did not file legally required
annual reports for three consecutive years. The IRS believes the vast
majority of these organizations are defunct, but it also announced
special steps to help any existing organizations to apply for
reinstatement of their tax-exempt status.

This course will prepare teachers to use school gardens as a learning environment while integrating food and garden lessons into their classroom curriculum. Participants will:

• Become familiar with inquiry-based approaches to integrating seasonal garden-based lessons;
• Explore the connections between food, gardening and wellness;
• Develop methods of incorporating critical thinking skills into classroom discussions about food, gardening, and health issues;
• Learn how to collaborate with school kitchens;
• Learn basic gardening practices;
• Develop an understanding of available community resources.

Spend some of your summertime learning – Advanced Grantwriting, Managing Foundations and MORE!  Exciting courses at Portland State University explore the nonprofit world.

Advanced Grantwriting 6:15pm on eight Wednesdays June 22-August 10 w/ Michael Wells.

Managing Philanthropic Foundations  9am to 5pm on four Fridays June 24, July 8, July 15, & July 22 plus some online w/ Dr. Andreas Schroeer.

Volunteerism and Volunteer Management (New format!) at 9am-4:30pm on four Wednesdays 6/22, 6/29, 7/6, and 7/13 w/ Erin Barnhart, Jayne Cravens, and Kathleen Joy.

Washington County Nonprofit Network in collaboration with WVDO brings a

Professional Development Series

Wednesday, June 22nd, 3-5pm

Comcast Cable Administrative Offices, Beaverton, OR

"Seven Proven Steps to More and Bigger Gifts" with Gene Christian, Principal Charitable Estate Planning Northwest

If you want to secure more and bigger gifts, you simply must get prospective donor’s hearts before you will get to their Hamiltons!  This session will reveal seven easy-to-follow steps which intentionally move key prospects toward deeper involvement…and financial support…of your organization’s mission.

Gene Christian, Principal

Charitable Estate Planning Northwest

I represent American Red Cross Toastmasters, a club that meets every Friday at noon, to practice speaking skills and build confidence in front of an audience.  It is a supportive and learning environment and free to visitors.
 
Even though we are located in NE Portland, our membership includes people from the entire metropolitan area.  As a courtesy to the entire community, we have scheduled a special no cost meeting for introducing interview skills to those people looking for a job.

If you now (or ever want to) work with volunteers, don't miss this
opportunity! Please do share this with anyone who wants to be better and
wiser at leading volunteers in nonprofit and government settings.

Effective volunteer engagement can have an enormous impact in the world,
helping to create healthy communities, strong and sustainable
organizations, and informed and empowered citizens. But how can one
build an effective volunteer program? What does it take to create --
and facilitate -- meaningful, impact-focused opportunities to serve?

You CAN become an even better grantwriter this summer by participating
in our "Advanced Grantwriting" course which is available to a select few
who are ready to take their writing and success to the next level. Grant
and nonprofit professionals will share their experiences -- learn what
they consider to be the skills and knowledge needed to get funded in an
increasingly competitive environment. Note: Students should be familiar
with the basics of grantwriting to take this course. If not, they should
register for Grantwriting for Nonprofit Organizations (Details below).

*Advanced Grantwriting topics include: *

*OVERVIEW and GRANTWRITING STRATEGY*

We are a small non profit in Salem Oregon focusing on helping the Akha people, some of who live here in Oregon but also the community in SE Asia.

We are trying to take a next step up in fundraising or grant writing and are not yet at the point where we can afford a large fee for having one grant application written up.  But we would like to get to that stage where we CAN do that as well.

If you would like to help us build from where we are please contact at akhalife at gmail dot com.

CAN YOU HELP?  We need hospice volunteers who can visit our patients during the weekdays.  

Housecall Providers is a nonprofit medical practice that provides primary-care house calls and hospice services to homebound seniors and people with disabilities throughout the Portland metro area.  The hospice component offers physical, emotional, and spiritual support to our patients who are near the end of life. 

Patient Care Volunteers complete 28 hours of training prior to seeing patients.  Our next training starts Saturday, July 9. 

Training takes place at the Housecall Providers office on SE Belmont and sessions are as follows: