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| CNN Community Gardens/Food Sharing Networking Meetings |
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Do you see a need for more community gardens in CNN? Have you and your neighbors wanted to start a garden but ran into obstacles along the way? Are you looking to connect with other neighbors who are interested in both expanding and cultivating a cohesive network of community garden resources? NEAR Gardens is a group of Community Development students at Portland State University working on a project called Root Access: Cultivating Community assets in CNN. NEAR Gardens are holding two community meetings and we want to hear from you! If you are interested in a cohesive network of community gardens in CNN neighborhoods this meeting is for you!
Please join us Wednesday, March 31 and/or Thursday April 15 at 7pm at CNN, 4415 NE 87th. Please RSVP to neargardens@gmail.com.
Check out our video on youtube about our project. |
| Madison High School Food Week 3/12-3/19 |
 Madison High School in partnership with the Madison SUN Program and Portland Parks and Recreation is hosting the first ever FOOD WEEK at Madison HS. Throughout the week students, staff, parents, families and the community are invited to come and learn about food sustainability and food security while building community around eating, gardening and having fun. Child care and local vendors with delicious food on site! Contact Gary Strokos or Lua Masumi for more information 503.916.5338 lmasumi@pps.k12.or.usor gstrokos@pps.k12.or.us |
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| Spring Clean-Up Events in CNN Neighborhoods! |
 Cully Neighborhood
April 17th 9-3 pm
5520 NE Killingsworth/Trinity L Church
Madison South Neighborhood
May 1st 9-3 pm (not taking yard debris)
Glenhaven Park, NE 82nd & Siskiyou
Roseway Neighborhood
May 15th 9-3 pm
7016 NE Sandy Blvd. Rose City N. Church
Sumner Neighborhood May 15th 9-3 pm
Helensview school, 8678 NE Sumner
Rose CityPark Neighborhood May 22nd, 9-3 pm
5309 NE Alameda, Archbishop Howard School
Please refer to Metro's website for the schedule of upcoming hazardous waste collection events. P
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| Portland Plan Phase II: Setting the Direction Workshops |
 What is the most important action Portland can take to improve high school graduation rates? Help chart the course of Portland's future!These are key questions you can still weight in on. Join your neighbors in the next round of workshops during the months of April and May to help sort information from the first phase and set the direction. To learn more about the Portland Plan or to take the survey, please visit www.pdxplan.com.
Northeast Workshop:
April 29, 6:30-9 pm
Beaumont Middle School, Cafeteria
4043 NE Fremont Street |
| CPPS High School System Redesign Communication |
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Community and Parents for Public Schools (CPPS) is developing a communications project to broaden the range of voices heard in the high school system redesign conversation. Our main focus is on reaching out to the families who are most excluded from the process and bringing their wisdom, ideas, and concerns to the table in this important discussion. We will work with partners to develop long-term focus groups that will provide consistency and perspective as the system redesign evolves. We will be organizing in the Madison, Marshall, Jefferson, and Roosevelt clusters, focusing on middle-grade feeder schools. The results of the focus-group surveys will be available to CPPS members and the wider community on our website. Stay tuned for additional details. |
| Solarize NE A Success! |
 Signups for Solarize Northeast have now passed 500! With the incredible participation in SolarizeNE community program, SolarCity will begin providing customers with the lowest price point of $5.95/watt. The partnership with NECN and CNN coalitions is designed to simplify the process of going solar and bring significant cost reductions through group purchasing. Solarize NE is a volunteer-driven, community-based volume purchasing project for solar electric panels is supported by the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and Energy Trust of Oregon.
Click here for more information or to enroll in the group purchase program which closes April 15, 2010. |
| Serve on the Public Involvement Advisory Council |
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Are you interested in increasing the community's impact on government decisions? Would you like to work on a team to develop policies that will assist the City of Portland with involving the public in ways that are more inclusive, transparent and accountable? If so, consider applying to serve as a volunteer member of the City of Portland's Public Involvement Advisory Council. The goal of this advisory council is to strengthen and institutionalize the City's commitment to public involvement and to assist City bureaus in creating consistent expectations and processes for public involvement activities. Currently, the PIAC has five vacancies. For more information & an application form, survey visit: www.portlandonline.com/oni/piac |
| CLF's 2010 Regional Livability Summit |
Building Alliances to Get Results
During this month's celebration of Earth Day, the 2010 Regional Livability Summit provides community leaders, advocates, government staff, elected officials, students and teachers and others an important opportunity to propel the notion of "what it takes to get the results we want... results on equity, on sustainability, on prosperity". At the Summit, we will celebrate our collective progress, engage in initiatives that are underway, identify where we are falling short, debate new strategies and strengthen the relationships we need to achieve our goal of improving the health of the Earth and all of us who live here. Thursday, April 29, 8-4p at PSU. To Register and for more information go to http://clfuture.org/events, 503-294-2889; email nicole@clfuture.org.
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| Nominate Someone for Gladys McCoy Citizen Involvement Award! |
 The Multnomah County Citizen Involvement Committee (CIC) is currently seeking nominations for the 16th annual Gladys McCoy Citizen Involvement Award, which CIC Chair Brad McLean called "Multnomah County's Volunteer Hall of Fame." The citizen selected for this honor will have made an impact on the local community by being involved in civil rights, affirmative action, human rights, education, environmental issues, local government and/or community issues. This year's award will be presented during Multnomah County's Annual Volunteer Award Ceremony on April 27, 2010. Call (503) 988-3450 or fill out a nomination form by March 26, 2010. |
| Multnomah County Community Budget Forum |
Help shape the County's budget: March 18, 6-8p, Multnomah Building-Creating a Healthy Community: Focused on county services provided by the Health Dept., Dept. Of County Human Services, Dept. of Community Services, Library Dept., Dept. of Management, Office of Information Technology, and Commission on Children, Families and Communities.
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| Community Watershed Enhancement Grants Due April 2nd! |
 The Bureau of Environmental Services will grant $85,000 in 2010 to support watershed health projects in the City of Portland. Grant applications are due by Friday, April 2, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. The Community Watershed Stewardship Program (CWSP) provides grants of up to $10,000 for projects that encourage watershed protection and enhancement. Citizen groups, businesses, non-profits, student groups, faith organizations, neighborhood, business or homeowner associations, and service groups in the City of Portland are eligible to apply. Past projects include invasive plant removal, native plantings, bioswales, ecoroofs, naturescaping, and natural area cleanup and restoration. Get application materials and information at www.portlandonline.com/bes/stewardship call 503-823-7917 or email bridger.wineman@bes.ci.portland.or.us. |
| Special Events |
 Calendar of Events
Columbia Slough Watershed Council event calendar
Rose City Park Candidates Fair March 23 7-9p
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Sandra Lefrancois, Community Program Director
sandral@cnncoalition.org |
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