On Saturday October 9th, a big yellow school bus will drive us around to Low Brow Lounge, Produce Row, Landmark Saloon and Radio Room. Local trivia master, Shan Rock, will lead us in rounds of trivia as we eat, drink and make merry. It's only $30 to participate, the money goes to a great cause and it's a really fun time!

The Community Housing Resource Center will be holding a FREE Mortgage Default Orientation on Tuesday, October 5th, from 5-6PM at the Center. This workshop is the required first step in learning how to work with your lender and how the Center can assist you in resolving your mortgage issue. You do not need to be in default to get help. No reservations are required.

For information, contact 360-690-4496 X105. The Community Housing Resource Center is a HUD certified, non-profit counseling/education center.

  Many people say preparation is "90% mental," but how do you separate out what's "mental preparation" from what's just "acting mental?"

As we’re bombarded with alarming headlines on a daily basis, how do we find the sane space between Doom and Denial?  Is there a place for wit when we examine the major challenges of our lifetime:  economic depression, environmental degradation, and energy depletion?  Is blind optimism itself, a diagnosable mental disorder?  

• What:  Managing Challenges to Sanity (and keeping your sense of humor...): Peak Oil, Climate Change & Economic Hard Times by Kathy McMahon, Psy.D.
• When:  Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 7pm - 9pm
• Where: St. Francis Sanctuary - 1182 SE Pine St. - Portland, OR
• Web:  http://www.thedirt.org/node/4807  &  Cascadia Tour Dates

With humor and insight clinical psychologist Kathy McMahon addresses a few of the major challenges of our time and discusses why “all or nothing” thinking is cutting short a more serious conversation about what we value, how our values dictate our behavior, and what we need to do to prepare for a future that may be very different from what’s been predicted. 

She’ll introduce Panglossian Disorder with subtypes such as:

• Rhett-Butlerism – (“Peak Oil? Planetary and economic collapse?  Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn…”) 
• Scarlet O’Hara-ism- (“I’ll just have to think about that tomorrow…”) and
• Frank Zappa-ism: (“As soon as things get really bad, they’ll come up with something”- a belief that necessity is the mother of invention.)

All of these are popular but ineffective psychological strategies for handling bad news.  What we face aren’t simple problems with clear cut solutions, but rather complicated dilemmas that require good humor, mature thinking and the ability to tolerate both unpleasant emotions and joy in the unexpected.  Come join us as we search for a space where we can all be more human than otherwise.   

Cost: $10 but no one is turned away. 

60 word Bio:  Since 2006, Kathy McMahon, “The Peak Shrink,” has been offering clinical wisdom, common sense, and good humor to an international readership, who've shared their stories and sought her advice about managing in these hard times.  Her research project,  www.PeakOilBlues.com is a collection of these narratives, investigating the emotional impact on ordinary people, living through dramatic economic, energy, and environmental upheavals.

Six chefs will faceoff at Portland’s downtown Hotel Lucia October 7th for the Youth Progress Association’s 2nd Annual Soup Smackdown hosted by Typhoon!. Chefs representing a wide variety of local eateries will create unique soups inspired by a YPA’s R.O.Y. (Recovering Oregon Youth) Project participant. R.O.Y. was designed to help lower-functioning youth gain valuable work experience and increase social skills while in a supportive, professional environment. You will have the opportunity to meet with the chefs and the clients, as well as taste their one-of-a-kind soups.

Thursday, October 7, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Hotel Lucia 400 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205

Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. trains women to enter into high skill, high wage careers in construction through our seven-week Trades and Apprenticeship Career Class.

Please help us get the word out about our FREE program so even more women can get started into satisfying, living wage careers and take advantage of green jobs training!

-- Class meets Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

-- Participants get hands-on experience working alongside skilled female instructors.

-- Explore topics like safety, construction culture, apprenticeship, and more.

-- Get an introduction to green building

-- Learn basic trades math and measurement.

Greetings Nonprofit Community,

On Wednesday, November 3, 2010 the PSU's Career Center and Institute for Nonprofit Management will host our 10th annual Nonprofit Career Fair (previously in conjunction with idealist.org). We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting event which has attracted several hundred attendees every year..

LifeWorks NW’s mission is to promote a healthy community by providing quality and culturally responsive mental health and addiction services across the lifespan. With over 600 employees and annual revenues in excess of $31M, LifeWorks NW is one of the largest providers of mental health and addiction services in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. For more information about LifeWorks NW, see its website at www.lifeworksnw.org.

United Way of the Columbia-Willamette in Portland, Oregon, has an opening for a Director-Major Gifts and Planned Giving to administer and supervise a year-round Individual Giving program. Additional info: www.unitedway-pdx.org. Forward cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Reference Job #3000.

Position closes 10/24/10. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Are you interested in taking the next big step in your career? If you are a proven executive with at least five years of managerial/executive experience with at least three in the nonprofit sector, we invite you to learn about our new Executive MBA in Nonprofit Management. Applications are now being accepted for our Fall 2011 cohort. Further information on the program, admissions and available financial aid can be found at:

http://business.up.edu/default.aspx?cid=10204&pid=457

Join the volunteer team at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry as a Photoblogger Volunteer!

POSITION SUMMARY: The Photoblogger Volunteer photographs various OMSI exhibit projects in production, writes short descriptions, and posts information on the OMSI Production Shop blog.

New volunteer orientation is on Thursday, October 14th at the Family Bridge shelter in Hillsboro for homeless families with children.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely, JoAnn Eden, Volunteer Program Manager

183 SE Sixth Ave. (corner of Washington St.)

Hillsboro, OR 97123

Phone: 503-844-2919

Fax: 503-844-6329

www.family-bridge.org

ORIENTATION FOR NEW VOLUNTEERS AT FAMILY BRIDGE SHELTER IN HILLSBORO

On Monday, October 11th, join a group of volunteers from Hands On Greater Portland as they serve a meal to the hungry at Blanchet House from 11am-1pm.

To sign up, click here: http://www.handsonportland.org/projects/viewProject.php?_mode=occurrence

Volunteers will arrive half an hour before the meal begins to get oriented to Blanchet House and divvy up tasks. Meal service lasts approximately one hour, after which volunteers are welcome to stay and eat with the rest of the meal crew and the 29 men who live and work at Blanchet House.

We currently offer a breakdancing class at Madison SUN School, which has been a popular choice among students. However, many female students do not feel like the class offers a type of dance they want to learn. To address this, we are hoping to offer another class featuring a different style of dance.

Timeframe: Fall term begins September 20th. We would hope to offer a dance class on Mondays or Tuesday's from 3:40 to 5:00, but are flexible.

Tasks: To teach high-school students various styles of dance, including but not limited to ballroom, hip hop, salsa, or any type an instructor might have experience in.

Saturday, October 9 from 8:30 am to noon 2529 NE Alberta Street (building east of Halibuts)

Can you identify common street trees? Do you want to improve your tree ID skills or learn more more about trees? Join City of Portland Urban Forestry staff and neighborhood volunteers and collect important tree inventory data. Those with more advanced tree ID skills will be paired with volunteers in small groups to measure and identify street trees on a few city blocks.