Though no longer officially in a recession, Oregon continues to struggle with high unemployment, a sluggish housing market and — depending on the outcome of the votes for Measures 66 and 67 — a potential $700 million dollar hole in the state budget.

Announcing the 2010 Community Watershed Stewardship Program Grant and Information Sessions

The City of Portland Environmental Services has up to $10,000 per project available for community groups engaged in watershed enhancement in the City of Portland.

Discuss your project ideas with the CWSP staff and get guidance for putting together your grant application at one of the following sessions:

- Tuesday, Jan. 12th 6:30-8 pm, Midland Library, 805 SE 122nd Ave.

- Wednesday, Jan. 20th, 12-1 pm, Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave.

- Thursday, Jan. 21st, 6:30-8 pm, St. Johns Community Center, 8427 N Central St.

Holistic Health in Practice: Body Symptoms, Fulfillment, and Creativity with Katje Wagner, MS A 3-part brown bag series dedicated to holistic health: an everyday way of being as we encounter the real challenges in our lives and the possibilities they contain. 

Messages in the Body Thursday, Jan 14, 12-1:30pm - The body is a powerful source of information and guidance. We typically identify with certain parts of ourselves and marginalize others, although all parts exist and live on through our body symptoms. By believing in the value of these symptoms and the information they contain, we have the potential to get in touch with more of who we are.

The Community Housing Resource Center will be holding free Mortgage Default Intake Orientations on Tuesday, February 23rd, and Thursday, February 25th, from 5-6PM at the Center. This workshop is the first step in learning how to work with your lender and how the Center can assist you in getting help to resolve your mortgage issue. You need not be in default in order to attend or get help. No reservations are required. For information, contact 360-690-4496 X105.

Outreach and Support to Special Immigrant Populations (OSSIP) is a comprehensive assistance program for survivors of human trafficking. OSSIP provides intensive case management and legal services, assisting survivors in obtaining the benefits to which they may be entitled under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). The OSSIP legal team works closely with the OSSIP social service team to provide quality services to the clients in our care.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

1. The OSSIP attorney will provide direct legal services to victims of human trafficking, which may include:

In an effort to make Ecotrust's event venues accessible to non-profits of all sizes and financial means, we have created a Community Grant Program which grants six awardees one day rentals at the Natural Capital Center. We are excited to be accepting proposals for our second round.

This practical session will teach participants how to create a fundraising plan and measure success of a fund development program. Participants will work step-by-step through the process of initial assessment, goal setting, drafting the plan, reporting results and evaluating success. The session will cover how to measure success of specific fundraising activities as well as the overall development program and will provide guidelines for reasonable expectations for return on investment.

Here's a heads up about our new Prompt workshop starting February 3rd. It would be great to have you or any of your writers join us. I hope you will share this with anyone you know who might be interested.

Prompt: A Write Around Portland Community Workshops

A weekly seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful Write Around Portland model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our favorite exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including free-writing; group discussion; imagery, character, plot and poetry development; and early-draft revision.