Introducing Leroy Eadie,
SE Uplift's New Executive Director!
Leroy Eadie comes to us with over 25 years of progressive leadership and professional experience in local government. He studied and received his B.A. Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Eastern Washington University.
Before joining the team at SE Uplift, Leroy served as the City of Spokane Parks & Recreation Division Director, where he supervised 90 FTE reports and hundreds of temporary seasonal employees, managed $25 million-dollar annual budget, oversaw the Riverfront Park Master Plan that led to a $64 million-dollar Park Bond, made key property acquisitions to expand open space recreation and preservation opportunities, implemented free swimming at all aquatic centers, and created a Parks Planning Section to centralize projects and maximize funding opportunities.
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He also served as a City Planner in several roles for 14 years including a position as the City of Spokane Neighborhood Planning Manager where he helped develop a neighborhood planning process that lead staff to create the Citizen Advisory Committee for Neighborhood Planning.
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Leroy is a member of Colville Confederated Tribes and is a U.S. Military Veteran that served in Operation Desert Storm. He has a vibrant and impressive list of volunteer service as the Spokane Park Board Secretary, Eastern Washington University Foundation Board Member, Inland Empire American Planning Association Board Member and as a City of Spokane Managers and Professional Association Board Member.
Leroy Eadie moved to Portland from Spokane, Washington to pursue his dream to create change in a larger new city with diverse communities and to lead a nonprofit using his leadership abilities. He takes pride in being a dynamic executive leader who enjoys building strong relationships and trust with fellow employees, board members, organizations, and neighborhoods.
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SE Uplift is hosting a very special Dessert Meet & Greet event
to introduce our new Executive Director, Leroy Eadie!
Please join us in welcoming our new Director while having tea, coffee, and desserts with neighbors, staff, community partners, and friends. You can also learn about all of the programs at SE Uplift!
Dessert Meet & Greet
SE Uplift
3534 SE Main St., 97214
February 13th, 2020
4-6PM
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Hygiene Mobile Outreach Trailers
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The City of Portland is seeking applications from businesses, nonprofits, community organizations, faith centers and social service providers to partner with the City of Portland to prevent potential public health hazards.
These mobile units are equipped with showers, toilets, storage lockers, sharps disposal and garbage bins. The aim is to prevent human waste, sharps and trash from ending up in the streets. More importantly these units will provide much needed basic needs to unhoused community members. Dignity, cleanliness, access to basic hygiene needs is a core need to community members that are camping outdoors. For example, having regular access to a shower and storage locker can allow someone the opportunity to attend a job interview.
The City of Portland will provide an assembled trailer with all of the motioned facilities, Pumping and servicing of the units 3 times per week, 24 hour response in the event of a biohazard incident and any necessary permits. Partners must provide liability insurance, staffing of the unit and supplies in between the servicing.
This is an excellent opportunity for community organizations and faith centers to provide some basic necessities to unhoused neighbors. SE Uplift is happy to provide assistance in obtaining a unit, permits or navigating city systems.
Please share this with any community spaces that would be open to partnering with the City of Portland on this new initiative.
For more info please contact Katie Lindsay at Katie.Lindsay@portlandoregon.gov.
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Communications Grants Deadline Approaching!
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Communications grant proposals and applications are due on February 28
th
!
If you are a neighborhood association that has received full or partial funding, please get your proposals filled out, approved by your board, and submitted to SE Uplift by
February 28
th
.
If you are applying for a communications grant, please submit your applications also by
February 28
th
.
If you have any questions or need assistance with your application, please set up an appointment or phone call with Christina Estimé at 503-232-0010 x312 or
christina@seuplift.org
.
We are looking forward to reviewing your applications and proposals!
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Democracy Update! Oregon Legislative short Session begins!
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Legislative Session Launches February 3rd 2020
Have you been engaged in advocacy in your neighborhood but want to take it to the next level? Are you interested in how state policy and budgets impact your life and the lives in your community? The 2020 Oregon Legislative short session is now in process and offers a great opportunity to start learning and tracking state-wide policy and its impact on your community.
The Oregon Legislative session officially started Monday February 3rd and lasts 35 days. Despite the short timeframe, legislators have a lot on their agenda - much of which is related to livability in some way. According to the recent OPB article “
2020 Oregon Legislative Session: Another Walkout Always Looming”
, climate change policy, stricter gun laws, earthquake preparedness, wildfires, funding the state’s housing crisis, and more are all on the table. Go
here
for the full article, and
here
for additional priorities listed in a recent Salem Reporter article.
Interested in learning more about issues you might care about? Many non-profit organizations will have information on their website about state legislation priorities or issues they are tracking, and even ways you can weigh in. If you have a group or topic you support, check out their website and see how you can support a state-wide effort.
Background information for the state policy newbie:
The SE Uplift Coalition area is comprised of one congressional district, two Oregon Senate and two House of Representative districts. Go
here
to see who represents you at the Oregon Legislature.
Actions you can take to become a better state advocate:
Need a refresher on what state government does?
This is a great general
resource
on government 101.
To find out who represents you
, and how to contact them, go
here
.
Get the information first hand:
Review the proposed bills by searching by bill or text on the Oregon State Legislature site “OLIS”
here
.
Review the potential revenue proposals and advocate your support for those by talking with your representatives, neighbors, friends, and colleagues
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More actions you can take to become a better state advocate:
- Data is a great starting place for legislations to build a case, but they also need personal stories from Oregonians to make the case more compelling. If you have a compelling experience or story that relates to the item under consideration, share it to your local legislator(s).
- Identify organizations that are advocating for issues you care about and volunteer, donate, and connect with them to get and stay involved.
- Tips for how to effectively impact policy during the session from policy makers themselves:
- "Personalized emails catch my attention more than a generic email. It is helpful to hear in the person’s own words what they are concerned about versus clicking on a form email that says contact your Senator or Representative with a prewritten email.”
– Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem
- “OLIS. OLIS. OLIS. Every constituent that wants to know what is going on should go to OLIS. Sign up for committee and bill notices of bills they are interested in following. Email testimony for bills of interest to the Committee Administrator once OLIS notifies you of a hearing.”
– Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas
- “All people, volunteers as well as highly paid professional lobbyists, can make an impact in the legislative process in Oregon… And the more involved, the more consistently involved, a person is – the larger an impact they can and will have upon the process”
– Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth
- “Keep email to your legislator short and get right to your point. Starting an email with, ‘You’re all a bunch of idiots’ is not the best way to get someone to listen to you. Make your point and then ask them to clarify or share the facts that they used to make their decision.”
– Rep. Sherrie Sprenger, R-Scio
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PPS E
nrollment Balancing Session:
Community Feedback Night
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PPS Enrollment Balancing Session
Grout Elementary School Cafeteria
3119 SE Holgate Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
7pm on Monday, February 10th
All are welcome to this event.
For more information, contact:
Shanice Clarke, Director of Community Engagement
Office of the Superintendent
503.313.3108 or sclarke@pps.net
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Southeast Uplift neighbors and Portland Public Schools (PPS) are hosting a
Community Feedback Night to reflect on pr
oposed enrollment balancing policy revisions at Grout Elementary School on February 10th.
The goals of policy revision include defining student demographics, and prioritizing equity-focused language in assignment and transfer practices.
Educational access has a strong intersection with where schools reside, and recognizing the impact on neighborhoods through a lens of racial equity will be grounding for this process.
Click here to see and download
the three policies up for revision, enrollment pattens in our Dual Language Immersion programs, and data on enrollment decisions in or schools.
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Black History Festival NW 2020
; an all ages celebration of culture and heritage showcasing Black artists, businesses, organizations, and leaders through arts, education and advocacy. This festival is utilizing Black History Month to celebrate the African Diaspora, bridge gaps, amplify truth, unity and hope in the pacific nw.
The Black History Festival NW has an online calendar featuring events at City Hall, Multnomah County Libraries, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland Community College, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art (PICA), and more!
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Visit YWCA This Month For These Awesome Trainings!
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Go to
ywcapdx.org/events
for more information and a complete list of their upcoming events.
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Division St. Parking Permit Project –
March 6 Deadline to Apply to Serve on Stakeholder Advisory Committee
The Richmond Neighborhood Association is working with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to design an area parking permit proposal for SE Division St. in the Richmond neighborhood.
The focus will be centered around Division, between César Chavez and SE 28th. A soon-to-be-formed Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) will work with PBOT and its consultant to design the details of a permit parking plan.
Any parking permit plan has to be voted in by the residents and businesses inside the proposed permit area. Under the current area parking permit code, there has to be at least a 50% ballot return and at least 60% Yes votes of returned ballots for any parking permit plan to be adopted.
PBOT is accepting applications to serve on the SAC until 12 pm, March 6, 2020. The SAC will consist of 11 seats, with members chosen to represent diverse perspectives on parking demands. Representatives from the RNA and the Division-Clinton Business Association will serve on the SAC.
For general information about the Division St. Parking Plan, click this Link. Questions can also be directed to the PBOT Project Manager Kathryn Doherty-Chapman, Kathryn.Doherty-Chapman@portlandoregon.gov, 503-823-4761.
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Bikes For Humanity PDX is Changing One Community At A Time Using Bikes As Their Vehicle!
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A note from Bikes For Humanity PDX
(B4HPDX)
:
We are so grateful for the support from
SE Uplift
and their Civic Engagement Grants Program! In 2019 we were able to expand our workshop offerings in the SE community and strengthen our free workshop program in our space on Powell.
🔧
applications are due February 6th if you are looking to fund a community project in SE in 2020!
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We were able to offer 53 workshops out of our HQ inside
#BingoBooks
to 63 students, most returning to attend at least four other workshops. We worked with 8 partner organizations to provide 9 additional free workshops, reaching 60 more additional participants, with almost all of them bringing their own bike to work on and learn about.
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This is the work we are here to do: connecting individuals in our community with the resources and tools (literal and otherwise) they need to make bikes work in their lives, and eliminating any barrier that might get in the way.
Thanks to our partners that hosted us this past year!
❤️
@pbotactive
Shift
@peoplesfoodcoop @cityrepairproject @portlandmercado @hacienda_cdc @pcc_secampus @ SE Uplift
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Bikes For Humanity PDX was a 2019 SE Uplift Small Grant Recipient.
Bikes For Humanity PDX (B4HPDX) is a volunteer-led non-profit community service
project aimed at providing the public safe, affordable refurbished bicycles, free professional bicycle mechanics education, hands-on experience, and volunteering opportunities. Learn more at
www.b4hpdx.org
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B4HPDX is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and have been offering free public bicycle tune-up clinics in Portland, Oregon since 2005.
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Come and hear why YOU should participate in the 2020 Census!
SE Uplift is hosting a Census Open House and Hiring event
Weds, February 5th from 6-8pm
here at our community office located at 3534 SE Main St., 97214! Contact Mireaya@seuplift.org or
503-232-0010.
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Community & Civic Engagement Small Grants Deadline is February 6th, 2020 end of day! Hurry and get those community project proposals in!
Send Grant Applications to Muz@seuplift.org or hand deliver to SE Uplift, 3534 SE Main St, 97214
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