Yearly Wrap-Up On Communications Funds Grants:
Stay Tuned For An Update!
by
Christina Estimé
SE Uplift knows the importance and power of good communication as a tool to engage and inform our community. Revisit our 2017 article,
Communication Matters
for a summary of our ongoing and guaranteed communication support and funding for Neighborhood Associations.
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Every year SE Uplift allocates $20,000 to the 20 neighborhood associations in our coalition.
During the 2018-19 communication fund cycle:
- Neighborhood Associations used approximately half of the total communications funds available to them.
- Neighborhood Associations spend the majority of funds on: web hosting, newsletters, event supplies, and snacks for the neighborhood association meetings.
- Ten Neighborhood Associations spent the entirety of their communications funds.
In 2020, SE Uplift will unveil an updated model for funding communications in our community that allows for more flexibility and support for neighborhoods and organizations interested in connecting with their neighbors in a meaningful and strategic way.
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The images pictured above are some examples of how neighborhoods used their communications funds in the past. To see the full images and more,
click this 2015 article,
Communication Funds Inspiration
, to get inspired and excited about opportunities for our next Communication Fund cycle! It’s time to think BIG and be BOLD.
The next communication funds cycle will open in December. Stay tuned for more information!
If you have any questions about the communications fund grants, please contact Christina Estimé at
[email protected]
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Beacon PDX (formerly Hard Times Supper) Needs Your Help
by Muz Afzal
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For the past 38 years Pat Schwiebert has been managing the Hard Times Supper at Sunnyside Community House. She has managed a large group of volunteers and collected resources to provide meals to our unhoused neighbors in a safe, warm, and judgement-free space. Apart from providing a safe space off the streets and a hot meal, the volunteers doing this work were able to marshal resources to put in laundry, shower and barber services in the space.
Pat and her supporters have developed deep relationships with community members living on the streets and have driven them to job interviews, shelters, appointments and various social services. This work has been possible with the support of neighbors, volunteers and multiple churches.
Many community members have been unaware of this silent good work that has been occurring for over 35 years. Last month the Hard Times Supper lost their home at Sunnyside Community House. This is a major loss for the vulnerable unhoused community members that reside in the Sunnyside and surrounding neighborhoods. This work needs a new home.
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After moving out of the Community House the Hard Times Supper has been changed to Beacon PDX. This program is now housed within Metanoia Peace Community and is occurring in parks and on the streets throughout SE Portland, but Beacon PDX needs a new home.
“A core team of volunteers made up of individuals from across the city and from each of our partner congregations will each be taking a few friends into our ‘family’. We will:
● Offer supportive relationships
● Commit to regular meeting
● Help in making and keeping appointments
● Aid in filling out paper work
● Help navigating city services
● Connect people with needed health care
● Provide an address for mail and obtaining IDs
● Host regular support group meetings
● Support in goal-setting and making plans
● Meet people where they are without judgement.
It’s Dondee that desperately needed a shower today when the park closed theirs for the season. It’s Lorrie who works the midnight shift at Freddies and needs a place to lay his head during the day time. It’s Val who lives in a tent near 205 who needs a meal. It’s Leroy who had an infection in his eye before we got him to a doctor. This we can do without a roof over our head. This we can do with creativity and dedication. This, we can do with your support.” – Pat Schwiebert
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Please support Beacon PDX by donating here. Your support is needed to ensure this work continues for now in the parks, streets and pop-ups and ultimately will need a new space and home where community members can go for services. There are multiple ways to support Beacon PDX: donate funds, volunteer, donate food or clothes, help Beacon PDX find a new home in SE Portland.
Checks should be made out to Metanoia Peace Community UMC and can be mailed to:
2116 NE 18th Ave Portland, OR 97212.
You may direct any questions to John Mayer (503-382-9607; [email protected]) or Pat Schwiebert (503-706-6583; [email protected]). If you or somebody you know is able to support us in a large-dollar amount and would like to give directly, please be in touch. All donations are tax deductible.
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Funding Your Community Projects with SE Uplift
by Mireaya Medina
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Creating projects in your community like events, place-making hubs, or raising funds to feed those in need can make a big impact in your neighborhood. It feels great to be on a mission to inspire change and empower others. But what happens when you need funding for mural paint or pizza and coffee for your neighborhood cleanup volunteers? SE Uplift has a cool funding model for projects that YOU create.
Some of SE Uplift's Fiscal Sponsored projects include Portland United Against Hate (PUAH), the Kerns United Mural project, and the Arleta Triangle project. Pass The Mic, Engage Brentwood-Darlington, Portland Through A Laninx Lense, and Rahab Sister's Portrait Circle are a few of SE Uplift's 2019 Community & Civic Grant projects. The Community Collection Events program continues to fund neighborhood and community group bulky waste cleanups, litter pickups and engaging our coalition area in reuse and recycling events.
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Our Community Collection Events (CCE)
program is now accepting applications for
spring 2020 cleanups & litter-pickups.
For more information about Community
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Our Fiscal Sponsorship program is now accepting applications year round. For more information about Fiscal Sponsorship
CLICK here
or contact [email protected]
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Our Community & Civic Engagement Small Grants are opening applications this month! For more information about Community & Civic Engagement Small Grants
CLICK here
or contact [email protected]
See all of SE Uplift's programs at
www.seuplift.org
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Build Your Toolkit with the Building Leaders; Building Your Board Orientat
ion
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Learn skills to improve the effectiveness of your neighborhood association. Be more effective as a board member. New and returning neighborhood association board members are invited to join us for an i
nteractive training on board service.
Topics will include an overview of Portland’s community involvement system, SE Uplift’s information sharing and advocacy models, board roles, responsibilities and regulations, and solutions to common neighborhood association challenges.
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Building Leaders; Building Your Board Orientation
Date: November 7th, 2019
Location: SE Uplift
(3534 SE Main St, 97214)
Time: 6-8pm
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New Expressive Works, 810 SE Belmont, Ste 2, PDX 97214
Doors open at 6:30p;
All-Age Garba lesson and dancing at 7pm
All-and Dandiya lesson and dancing at 8pm
Classes taught by DJ Anjali and her dancers the Gulabi Gang.
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Here is the full agenda for our 3 days of celebration! On November 1st and 2nd Portland Mercado will have an Altar showcase which will be up till November 11th. See more by
clicking here.
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Hate, Housing, and the Landscape of our City.Tuesday, November 19th at 6 PM @ People’s Food Co-op 3029 SE 21st Ave Portland, OR 97202.
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Fall Community Resource Fair in East Portland on Wednesday, November 20th. 1 pm-4 pm at the Department of Human Services (DHS) office, 8129 SE Malden St. near SE 82nd Ave. and Flavel St.
Civic Life is partnering with DHS, Portland Bureau of Transportation, East Portland Community Office, Clackamas Service Center, and other service providers. For more info contact:
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November is National Adoption Month! To raise awareness of the need of adoptive families for children and youth in the foster care system, please join us on November 20
th
at 7:00pm for a FREE community conversation!
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Community Capacity Grant is to create mutually beneficial partnerships that will support high quality, culturally relevant work with community partners in Oregon and SW Washington.
- Open to IAP2 members or those partnering with IAP2 Cascade Chapter members (please email [email protected] for partnership info)
- Applications open: Sept 9 - Nov 15, 2019
- Amount available: $3000 (up $1000 per project)
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APANO URBAN WEEDS WORKSHOP
Date: Thursday, November 14th Time: 6-8:30pm Location: Orchards of 82nd- APANO Multicultural Space Address:
8118 SE Division St, Portland OR 97206 Register online at:
www.emswcd.org/workshops
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