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 CNN e-newsletter
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Northeast Neighbors
Season's Greetings from the Staff at CNN!
Alison Ronda Bill Sandra |
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| 2010 Community Media Workshops at CNN! |
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We had a full house for the first SmartAccess™ media workshop series in November, 2009! Central NE Neighbors and Portland Community Media (PCM) SmartAccess™ Center is offering a new workshop series starting January 7th: Digital Storytelling and Producing Multimedia for Your Community. Learn to use images, voiceover and sound to tell your story and work as part of team to develop a community documentary. These workshops are provided by PCM at a discount. SmartAccess™ participants who complete media production workshops are eligible for certification as PCM Producers. Certification allows you to reserve equipment and use the skills you learned in the workshops to complete your own digital projects.
To register for the orientation on January 7th, or request language interpretation please email Cece Hughley Noel at PCM, cece@pcmtv.org, 503-288-1515 x121. Support for the CNN SmartAccess™ Center is also provided by the Office of Neighborhood Involvement. |
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| CNN Neighborhood Small Grant Projects in 2010! |
 This year CNN Grant Selection Committee awarded five grants with an allocation $16, 836. CNN received $57, 091 in requests from neighborhood associations and community groups.
Photo by Fook Lok Hollywood Loaves and Fishes
2010 CNN Neighborhood Projects:
We look forward to a year of building community through collaborative action!
Cully Collective Market Community groups creating a market that integrates local entrepreneurship, healthy affordable food, and a cultural gathering space in Cully-Cully Association of Neighbors and Community Partners
Expresiones Film and Photography Project Film and photography after school project for low income culturally diverse youth-Hacienda CDC/My Story
Hollywood Community Garden A community garden on the site by the Hollywood Theater to build community through food growing, distribution and a community green space-Film Action Oregon and Community Partners
International Day Festival To strengthen Sandy Blvd. district's community diversity through art, music, and children activities-Portland International District
Senior Citizen Asian Cultural Events Cultural awareness and appreciation events honoring Asian elders and community involvement-Fook Lok Loaves and Fishes/Asian Pacific American Senior Coalition |
| Portland Community Gardens Winter Classes and Work Parties |
 The classes include beginning gardening, as well as work parties for garden clean-ups and fruit tree pruning.
To sign up for classes or work parties, please call 503.823.1612 or visit comgardens@ci.portland.or.us.
A construction work party will be held January 23rd 10 am-noon, 2735 NE 82nd for volunteers who want to help build the newest community garden at Madison High School!
The Community Garden program has provided gardening opportunities for the physical and social benefit of the people and neighborhoods of Portland since 1975. There are currently 32 community gardens located throughout the city, developed and operated by volunteers and Portland Parks & Recreation staff, offering a variety of activities. |
| Support Local Merchants and the Cully Neighborhood! |
 The Cully Association of Neighbors (CAN) NE Area Savings Guide is filled with over 50 coupons from NE neighborhood services, restaurants, retail shops and health and fitness establishments. The guide includes free appetizers, pastry a community center day-pass and more. Receive discounts on items as diverse as appliances, flooring, eyewear,clothes, hair care, meals, coffee, swimwear, tree care, floral, plants, oil change,home furnishings, pizza, creative services, books, market and pet care. The $3.00 2009-2010 savings books, which also includes problem solving resource phone numbers, are available at the customer service desk of the Cully Albertsons, some participating businesses and at the Cully Association monthly meetings. Visit the CAN website at www.cullyneighbors.org to view the directory. Buy one for yourself and give one as a gift and support local businesses with your patronage. Proceeds raised helps to pay for CAN newsletters. Photo by portlandground.com |
| Support Neighbors' Start-Up Businesses |
 Micro Mercantes is a community-oriented program of women from different regions of Mexico selling traditional, delicious homemade tamales and drinks to support their families and engage in the community. You will find the women working in mother-daughter teams at ten Portland-area farmers markets or local tamale-catered events. To ensure the vitality of the group and empower the women, Hacienda CDC, local Hispanic affordable housing non-profit, supports the twenty vendors with bilingual training in business management, finance, marketing, securing licenses and learning compliance with local governments. With the support of each other, Micro Mercantes provides a sustainable, empowering livelihood for low-income Latino residents and their families. For more information about Micro Mercantes please contact Jorge Alvarado @ 503 961-6408 or jalvarado@haciendacdc.org. The next time you have an event consider ordering from Jorge, they deliver fresh to your event!
"For the first time, I'm my own boss managing my own business"
-Zoila Cully neighbor |
| Special Events |
 Calendar of Events
Columbia Slough Watershed Council event calendar
CNN Portland Plan Retreat, Jan 25th
Community Yoga at CNN (Mondays)
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Sandra Lefrancois, Community Program Director
sandral@cnncoalition.org |
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