WHEN: Tuesday, April 27 5:30 - 7:30pm

WHERE: Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, 915 SE Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97214

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference took place April 8-10, 2010 in Atlanta, GA. Nearly 1,450 nptechies came together to learn & connect about using technology to create more social change in our jobs and in the world.

Join us for our April meetup when Portland attendees will share resources and takeaways from the sessions they attended. It will be a lively discussion with lots of tips and tricks learned from the top nonprofit technologists in the county.

Here are some of the sessions to be discussed:

Bloom 2010: Tryon Life Community Farm's 6th Annual Spring Benefit

- - - - - - - - Saturday, May 8th, 3:00pm-MIDNIGHT - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - Music  -  Workshops  -  Food  -  Community - - - - - - - - - -

- - - THIS IS A BENEFIT FOR TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM - - -

Sliding   Scale:   $10-$30

(worktrade available- [email protected])

Biking & Carpooling strongly encouraged.  Shuttle Provided:

Please Park @ Riverdale High School - 9727 SW Terwilliger-PDX-97219.

**Music**

DJ OBE - http://www.myspace.com/obelive

ReVisioning Value Conference Apr 26-27 in Portland, Oregon

Convergence of Leadership, Potential and Innovation in Impact Investing at Historic Gerding Theater

Join Oregon Tilth for hands-on garden education and take home veggie starts for your garden!

Plant Your Garden! Wednesday April 28, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00

It's time to prepare the soil and plant your favorite vegetables! Soil building, seed sowing, thinning, transplanting, and season extension techniques will highlight space saving strategies for urban gardeners. Take home plant starts for your garden!

Luscher Farm in Lake Oswego, OR $35/ $31 residents/Tilth members

For more information visit www.tilth.org

Adoption Program Supervisor

Boys & Girls Aid

Join a dynamic, high quality, fast paced nonprofit organization committed to impacting the lives of children in need for over 125 years. 

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

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington provides a “home away from home” for families and their seriously ill children who travel far to receive treatment at Portland hospitals, and awards grants to non-profit organizations that offer children’s immunizations and dental care.

We are currently accepting applications for a Guest and Administrative Specialist. The G&AS is the face of the organization through his/her greeting and interactions with visitors, volunteers and houseguests. The G&AS plays a key role in the houseguest registration process, and also performs various administrative tasks.

The SUN program at Hall Elementary in Gresham is in need of a summer program teacher for the weeks of June 28th through July 15. Hours are 9am-12 Monday-Thursdays. Pay is $12/hr. The program serves 1st-5th graders. There will be 2 sports themed weeks and 1 theater/arts/music themed week. Would love someone who has had experience working with elementary age kids, enjoys teaching sports and/or music/arts. Knowledge of camp songs a plus! Men encouraged to apply- we'd like some more gender balance!

A car is needed for this position.

If interested, please contact Emily Goldberg at [email protected] or (503) 492-6726. Thanks!

Low cost technology available for nonprofits

In honor of Earth Day, recognizing the economy is still taking a big bite out of nonprofit’s stability, and because we are getting nonprofit requests outside of Lane County, NextStep <http://www.nextsteprecycling.org> <http://www.reuseradio.org> <http://repair2reuse.org> <http://www.reartfair.org> is extending our discounted computers ($99.00) to nonprofits in all of Oregon. Call our ReUse Store at 541-868-0904 or email our Store Manager at <[email protected]> to arrange purchase. We can do English or Spanish language installs.

IRS Reaches Out to Millions of Employers on Benefits of New Health Care Tax Credit

Why spend a fortune (and fill-up the ocean) with little plastic bottles of shampoo and other sundries?

D.I.Y. toiletries teacher Cheryl Lohrmann will lead this introductory workshop on Wednesday, April 28, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Che Room at St. Francis Church (across from Red & Black worker-owned cafe at SE 12th & Oak). Please bring clean containers. Suggested donation is $10 to help Cheryl with the supplies.

The Transition Initiative's monthly Skill Revival series brings folks of all stripes together to build resilience for our low-carbon future.

Career Connections Professional Training and Internship Program

*Even in this economy, our training graduates are getting good jobs in customer service, administration, health care, business, non profit, and local government.

*This program is FREE and space is limited. Apply now!

Spring Training: May 24-June 25 MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-3PM

Recruitment is starting now! PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY: • 17-24 years old & a resident of the City of Portland • Have a high school diploma or GED • Able to pass drug screening when applying for internships/jobs with partner companies • Meet our income qualifications (we serve low-income students; we’ll help you figure out if you qualify)

Great info, fun people, affordable. • Meet with foundations in small group roundtables • Workshops on volunteer management, board recruitment, social media, events and more • Expert roundtables on auctions, firing a volunteer, hot auction tips, healthcare reform • Exhibits to help you prepare for your next project. Tuesday, May 4, 8:00 am to Noon, Doors open at 7:30. Vancouver Hilton, 301 W. 6th Street, Vancouver, WA 98660 Registration $59 Nonprofit Network Members $49 Nonprofit Network Southwest Washington co-sponsored by United Way of the Columbia-Willamette. More info & registration at: http://nonprofitnetworkwa.org/ or Call 360.735.7110

The form 990 has been updated and require additional information. Are all of your policies and procedures in place? Is your system set up to track the information that the IRS requires?

Allocation of your expenses can be one of the trickiest parts of nonprofit accounting. What method do you use? How do you allocate your costs in your accounting system? Some funding agencies may have their own rules about allocating funds to the projects they fund. This session will cover some accounting system set up and go over methods for identifying the allocation process that will work best for your organization. Do your funding sources include government? Do you and your board want to see a better breakdown of how costs are distributed in order to make more fully informed decisions? Come to this session - and it will all add up.

Creating the plan, monitoring performance and reporting the results. This session will cover the budgeting and cash flow projection process, as well as creating the financial reports needed to monitor an organizations performance. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the budgeting process and cash flow management and which reports say what and why they are important.

Great volunteer opportunities are available to support the 8th Annual Regional Livability Summit being held in Portland on April 29th. The Livability Summit is an inspiring event that provides community leaders, advocates, government staff, elected officials, students, teachers and the multi-faceted Portland-Vancouver public an important opportunity to propel the notion of "what it takes to get the results we want... results on equity, sustainability, and prosperity".

Help care for trees this summer without digging or getting dirty! Friends of Trees is kicking off its popular Summer Inspector program next month and we invite you to join us. Summer Inspectors are given a neighborhood-based route of approximately 30 trees to visit twice over the course of the summer. These are trees that were planted over the course of our last planting season which ran from last November through this April.

The best part is that there is no schedule – you figure out what works best for you! (We estimate that each time through the route will take about 4 hours.)