Hey, neighbor!
This month we encourage you to register to some exciting events hosted by yours truly! We share an exciting recap on the Community Engagement Evening on Houselessness Event, and much more. Keep reading to see what's going on throughout the district.
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REGISTER NOW! Building Your Network Communications Training Series |
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This three-part series will be hosted by activist, networker, musician, neighbor, and resident of Portland, Oregon: Albert Kaufman. Through these workshops you will learn how to develop toolkits to expand your digital audience via relevant communications strategies. |
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Build Your Outreach Toolkit
Thursday, September 1st
6:00 - 7:00 PM
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Social Media Strategies
Monday, August 29th
6:00 - 7:00 PM
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Email Marketing Trends 2022
Thursday, August 25th
6:00 - 7:00PM
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SE Uplift Community Bike Rides –
August 18, 21 & August 25
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Beat the summer heat with SE Uplift staff with a three-part series of early morning bike rides in August. Explore neighborhood greenways throughout SE while visiting community projects and learning how you can support these grassroots efforts. Routes include frequent stops. Join us! Visit: seuplift.org/community-rides for registration and ride details.
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Thursday, August 18 10am-12pm “Central East Ride”
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Sunday, August 21 11am-1pm “Mt. Tabor Villa Ride”
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Thursday, August 25 10am-12pm “Lower Southeast Ride”
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Community Engagement Evening on
Houselessness Recap
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On August 1st, the SE Uplift Houselessness Action Committee brought together community partners and neighbors to share resources on ways to support our houseless neighbors. Representative Rob Nosse and Commissioner Sharon Mieren spoke to guests and there were presentations on food security and hygiene from Blanchet House, Hygiene4All, and the Sunnyside Shower Project (a SE Uplift grantee). In total, 19 organizations attended the tabling fair, representing many of the frontline efforts happening in Portland. SE Uplift wants to extend a big thank you to all who participated in the event! |
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From @pdxsaintslove: We are thankful for @seuplift heart to connect community based organizations in the city to make a big impact for our East Portland houseless neighbors.
Grateful to be among beautiful organizations doing amazing work.
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And thanks to #SeUplift for their diverse services, such as tonight putting on a fair to connect neighbors to organizations serving unhoused and housing insecure folk, from @groundscore.association
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Meet A SE Uplift Grantee! |
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Montavilla's Farmers Market |
Montavilla Farmer's Market, a year-round food and farm marketplace in Southeast Portland, received a SE Uplift grant to trnalate education materials into Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian and Simplified Chinese to support community members with EBT (SNAP and TANF) benefits.
Montavilla Farmer's Market works to provide a vibrant marketplace where the diverse community has access to high quality, local, healthy food. They create opportunities for our vendors and customers to support and learn from each other, which strengthens the local economy.
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Montavilla and the surrounding neighborhoods are home to many families whose primary language spoken at home includes Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, and Chinese (including Cantonese and Mandarin). The area is also in a census tract determined to be a Low-Income and Low-Supermarket-Access by the United States Department of Agriculture. To provide a marketplace supportive of our diverse community, it is essential to translate key information needed to utilize EBT benefits at the farmers market and provide wayfinding opportunities. Visit them on Sundays in Montavilla. Click here to learn more!
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Visit Us at Hawthorne Street Fair: Sunday, August 28th |
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SEUL is a proud to be a sponsor of the Hawthorne Street Fair. Come visit us at one of the longest-running street fairs in the city. Over 200 businesses including SEUL call the business district home. Multiple music stages, two beer gardens, and pop-up sidewalk sales will be at the event. We hope to see you there!
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Volunteer Opportunity:
Educate Ya! LGBTQ+ Bilingual HIV/STI Prevention
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Educate Ya! is inviting interested LGBTQ+ volunteers with Spanish-language skills to participate in this certification course. This training is in Spanish and focuses on resources and information about HIV/STI prevention and awareness, as well as addressing stigma toward the LGBTQ2S+ community. Register here!
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Grant Opportunity:
Metro's Community Placemaking Grant
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Community Placemaking applications open Aug. 5, close Oct. 7 at noon
Metro, the Portland area regional government, is accepting Community Placemaking grant applications Aug. 5 through Oct. 7 at noon. These grants support arts and culture based, community-led, equity-centered efforts that strengthen people’s connections to each other and places they care about.
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Up to $200,000 in grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 will be awarded for the 2023 cycle. No matching funds are required. Strong proposals are grounded in racial equity and address a critical community challenge or opportunity. Click here to learn more!
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These are the People in Your Neighborhood |
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Civic Life is partnering with Portland State University (PSU) Population Research Center to develop data-rich neighborhood profiles. The maps are based on Census 2020 number- for all Portland neighborhood individually. The city is accepting public comments through Sept. 9th! Click here to learn more!
The neighborhood profiles will:
- Help the City and our community partners improve outreach;
- Set programmatic priorities unique to each neighborhood;
- Help Portlanders in need; and
- Sharpen our understanding of the unique changes and issues occurring within each neighborhood.
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Farewell to Communications and Fiscal Sponsorship Program Manager, Paola De La Cruz |
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SE Uplift bids a fond farewell to Communications and Fiscal Sponsorship Program Manager, Paola De La Cruz, who has been bringing these monthly e-newsletters to your InBox each month. We appreciate the design expertise she brought to her work at SE Uplift and for helping to level-up our fiscal sponsorship program as an incubator of grassroots efforts throughout the district. Thank you, Paola! We look forward to watching your design career take off! Find her here: paoladelacruz.com
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SE Uplift is excited to promote our Operations Specialist Lindsey Johnson to the Fiscal Sponsorship and Communications manager role and we have launched our search for a well-qualified candidate to fill that role. The position is 32-36 hours a week and includes benefits. Please circulate this announcement to your networks and help us find someone great to join the small and mighty SE Uplift team! Learn more here |
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(503) 232-0010 | info@seuplift.org | seuplift.org
E-news has been funded through a grant from the Office of Community and Civic Life
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Background Photo from Pexels
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