The Fair Trade Federation is holding a fair trade festival at their annual conference.

Shop your values while learning about the fair trade movement and how it impacts poor communities around the world.

Join Global Sistergoods and 44 other vendors from around the country at this exciting and fun event!

March 28, 2009, 3:30-6pm, Cascade Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel,1000 NE Multnomah

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! for more information:

http://www.fairtradefederation.org/ht/d/sp/i/9668/pid/9668 -- Kristi Jo (KJ) LewisGlobal Sistergoodswww.globalsistergoods.com, 503-737-1956 cell

This year, over 65,000 undocumented high school students will not be able to go to college, get a job, or drive a car. How do these American youth face this challenge? Come support PAPERS, a locally produced documentary that explores the immigration debate from unheard youth perspectives. There will be a sneak preview of the film, a chance to hear from some of the youth involved in the film, live music from Jake Oken-Berg, delicious food, and good company! A 5-10 dollar donation will go directly to support the film and the voices of local youth. WHEN: THURSDAY MARCH 26th, 7-9pm WHERE: Center for Intercultural Organizing 700 N. Killingsworth St. RSVP encouraged, please email [email protected] For more info on PAPERS, see www.papersthemovie.com

Come learn about MEJOR Communities work improving the health of rural Peruvian communities through youth empowerment and education and taste delightful Andean delicacies at our 2nd Annual Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction at Andina Restaurant in the Pearl District.

The dinner will be on Monday, April 6th from 6:30-9:00 pm

All proceeds support our “Empowering Youth Through Health Leadership” project, starting June, 2009. See www.mejorc.org/current.html to read about this project. (We must raise another $5,000 by mid-April to make it happen, so we extremely appreciate your support.)

Confused about harmful chemicals in your home, household products, and the baby’s room?

The Oregon Center for Environmental Health is pleased to announce the upcoming class.

Creating an EcoSafe Home

This one and half hour class will provide you with the knowledge you need to replace products that can be harmful to your family and will provide you with the information you need to make safer consumer choices for every room in your home including the garage and the garden.

Classes are $5 for OCEH member and $10 for non-members.  Each participant will take home a CD loaded with information  on science, government reports, news articles, and shopping tips.

Personal Agent(s)

“Offering people resources and education to direct their lives.”

Inclusion Inc, a nonprofit support services brokerage, is accepting résumés for Personal Agents to complete our team.

Currently, we are looking at add to our growing team while decreasing the current caseload numbers for all Personal Agents.  We are organized in a team – based structure, moving from two teams of Personal Agents to three in the next three months. 

This spring, celebrate Earth Day, Arbor Day or Mother’s Day by giving your mother, friend or other family member a Gift Tree. Gift Trees cost $35 each, and Gift Groves of six young native trees cost $100. Tax-deductible Gift Tree purchases support Friends of Trees' natural area restoration work in the Portland-metro area.

You can order Gift Trees online at www.FriendsofTrees.org. Friends of Trees will print a card with the name of the person being honored and mail the card to the gift recipient within three business days of your order.

The following are free to a non-profit, you just need to make arrangements to pick up the items (downtown Portland).

Contact Paula at 503-827-8669 10am-noon to make the arrangements.

Dell laptop Inspiron 7500 Windows NT Windows 98 w/case and wristpad

Canon Printer Pixman iP4300

Micron Black keyboard

Logitec Mouse

H-P Fax FAX-900 w/manual

Greetings!

SEEDS, the Community Service program of Reed College, is once again looking for a space to rent for our Orientation Service Trips for the evenings of Saturday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 23rd in inner NE Portland (or SE if it were far enough North.)

Does your organization, church, ect. have a large, preferably carpeted, space in which 46 community minded students could sleep (on the floor is fine) and a kitchen in which they could make dinners and breakfasts? We would need the space from about 4 pm to 9 am each day, plus storage of food and belongings during the entire weekend.

Writing Solicitations That Work

When: Thursday, March 26, 2009: 6:30-8:00 pm

Where: Mercy Corps Northwest Office 2069 NE Hoyt St., Portland

Event Description: Business and writing consultant Bob Schatz offers practical suggestions on how to make your organization’s written pieces more strategic and effective, producing better results.

More Info: $5 for Mercy Corps Northwest clients, $10 for community members. All proceeds benefit Mercy Corps Northwest programs.

Please RSVP to Heather at [email protected] or 503.236.1580 x211

Please check our website after 12:00 p.m. the day of the seminar to verify that the class has not been cancelled due to insufficient RSVPs.

Activity: Trillium Festival

Date: Saturday and Sunday, April 4 and 5, 2009

Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm

Description: Invite friends and family to join you at our native plant sale and family festival.  Every year the Friends of Tryon Creek State Park welcome spring and the return of the trillium flower with this weekend celebration.  Activities include local artisans, raffles, native plant sale, arts and crafts, live music and more. 

All proceeds from the plant sale go to conserve and enhance the natural resources, and promote the educational, interpretive and recreational programs of Tryon Creek State Park.

Do you have strong computer technical support skills? Are you looking for a way to contribute those skills to a good cause? Zenger Farm, an educational farm and wetland in outer SE Portland needs you! Zenger Farm provides opportunities to learn about food, farming and environmental stewardship to youth and adults from throughout the Portland area. We have a very small staff, none of whom have computer technical skills. We are in need of someone to help us evaluate and upgrade our outdated computer systems as soon as possible, and then provide occasional tech support on an ongoing basis.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

§         Evaluate our computer systems