WHAT: Portland Riverfest

WHEN: August 28th - September 7th, 2008

DESCRIPTION: Join the fun as Portland caps off the summer by celebrating the Willamette River. Riverfest offers a family-friendly chance to come to the river; take river tours; enjoy live music; learn first-hand about the river’s history, its environment, and its recent renaissance; clean-up the riverbank; and view river spectacles.

PUBLIC PHONE CONTACT: Rick Bastasch, 503-823-0275

WEBPAGE: www.portlandriverfest.org

ADMISSION: Most events are free, check website to confirm the price of a particular event

So many folks have emailed me wanting to go to register the Jon Young lecture but now the link is broken. My apologies and I grateful for the profound response. We recently changed web masters and thus servers. When all seemed fine some technical goobldy gook came up that I kind of understand but not really. You can also mail in a registration form, as far as I know the link to download the form is still working. I am hoping to have the online registration back up in a few days. Again so sorry for (my) our screw up. There may also be room at the door but our venue does have a limit.

Make sure that National Night Out is on your calendar!  

The Old Town Chinatown neighborhood joins with the rest of the country to celebrate an evening out with friends and neighbors!

When: Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Time: 4:30 - 7:00pmWhere: Voleur Restaurant & Kitchen (patio) 111 SW Ash St,  Portland,  OR 97204  

This is a potluck, so feel free to bring along your favorite dish.  Come one, come all, be early, stay late.  

Check out :  http://www.oldtownchinatown.net/ 

Job Announcement

Position: Operations Manager of the Oregon Bus Project

Organizational Overview: The Bus Project is an innovative vehicle for hands-on democracy. We drives votes, leaders, and change. (And yes, we have a bus.) The Bus engages new people in the civic process for immediate impact and for long-term leadership development. Volunteer leaders often become involved due to a passion for positive politics and our six Es: Education, Environment, Equal rights, Election reform, Economy, and 'Ealth Care.

Title:     Executive Director

Status:  Regular, Full time, exempt position

Starting Salary: $65,000 – 70,000 DOE, plus benefits

BACKGROUND 

The mission of Bradley-Angle House is to offer survivors of domestic and sexual violence options for safety, self-empowerment, healing and hope, while collaborating with our communities to create social change.

The Oregon Chapter Sierra Club is hiring a Chapter Director for its Portland, Oregon office. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced individual to help direct one of Oregon's most effective environmental advocates. The Chapter Director will be responsible for managing staff working on priority grassroots campaigns, fundraising (including major donors and grant writing), developing and implementing a strategic plan and volunteer and member relations.

Qualifications: Experience in grassroots organizing, training volunteers and/or coalition building; strong communication skills; experience with budgets and program planning; demonstrated success with fundraising; experience with staff management; knowledge and experience with the legislative process.

Development Associate/Database Coordinator, FT.

See full position description at www.emoregon.org/employment.php.

Send resume and cover letter to Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon: e-mail to [email protected], fax to (503) 223-7007, or mail to 0245 SW Bancroft St., Suite B, Portland, OR 97239. Interviews begin immediately; open until filled. Raiser's Edge exp preferred. No phone calls please. EOE.

Program Associate Northwest Business for Culture & the Arts (www.nwbca.org) seeks a qualified Program Associate in Administration, Communications and Events.  The ideal candidate will be well organized, enthusiastic, tech savvy and have strong administrative and communications skills.  Please see attachment or visit our website for further information.  No calls, please. Please email your resume and cover letter to [email protected] by August 12, 2008. Please submit with the subject line “Program Associate Search.”    

Susan Myers Associate Director Northwest Business for Culture & the Arts 224 NW 13th Ave., Suite 303 Portland, OR  97209 503-248-1968  

Our objective is to provide a highly personalized practical skills training relevant for working at an International Development NGO. This is a unique program that offers participants opportunities to learn how an International Development NGO functions from the inside out. While supporting the overall efforts of Green Empowerment and our network of partner NGOs, each Intern is able to develop their own portfolio of program reports, grant proposals, website assistance, project profiles, and/or project specific research. Participants work closely with individual program staff for 10-15 hours per week.