The Oregon Affordable Housing Management Association Presents

RD CERTIFICATIONS FOR MANAGERS OF
SENIOR/DISABLED PROJECTS

Thursday, June 14, 2012, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Valley River Inn, EUGENE

Breakfast, lunch & course materials are included in the registration fee.
Designed for Rural Development housing managers, this workshop will focus on the essential and sometimes challenging components of the certifications process for those managing RD projects housing seniors or people with disabilities.

National trainer Karen Crosta will cover the following topics:

•  Income
•  Assets
• Adjustments
• Scheduled and unscheduled certifications
• Verifications

Click here to learn more.

Request For Proposals – 2012 Enterprise Pacific Northwest Partner Sustainability Grants Program

The Enterprise Community Partners Organizational Sustainability RFP is due May 4^th.  Eligible applicants are Oregon CDCs and CHDOs.  Additional eligibility requirements are outlined in the RFP.

2012 PNW Oregon Capacity Building RFP
2012 Final Workbook
Grants Guide 2012

You are invited to:

Native Professionals and Friends Night

Tuesday, March 27, 2012
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Mercy Corps Northwest
43 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, OR 97204

Join us in welcoming and meeting Native leaders visiting the region from across the country, Hawai’i and New Zealand from the Americans for Indian Opportunity Ambassadors Program.

All are welcome to this event to build relationships and generate deeper connections. Appetizers and refreshments available. (21+ only)

Suggested donation of $25 in cash or check at the door will support the cost of the event and benefit NAYA Family Center.

Please RSVP for the event by emailing Lai-Lani Ovalles (E) lailanio@nayapdx.org

Click here to view flyer

From Central Northeast Neighbors:

What is most important to you and your community?

Join Mayor Adams, City Commissioners and voice your priorities about the FY 2012-13 budget.March 21, 6:30pm-8:30p. Cleveland High School Cafeteria 3400 SE 26th. For more information about the budget forums, community partnership events, or about how your organization can get involved in the budget process, contact 503-823-6952. All budget forum locations are ADA accessible. To help ensure equal access to City programs, services and activities, the City of Portland will reasonably modify policies/procedures and provide auxiliary aids/services to persons with disabilities. For accommodation requests, please call 503-823-6952 in advance or (TDD) 503-823-6868

Oregon ON member Michael Anderson on NACEDA Summit Docket:

Save the Date:  Jamie Schriner-Hooper, Executive Director of the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan, will chair the summit committee for the second consecutive year. The committee includes Brian McGrain of the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan, Brigette Rasberry of the North Carolina Association of CDCs, Chris Hannifan and Elizabeth Debs of the Housing Network of Rhode Island, Karen Blandford of the Maryland ABCD Network, Lisa Stolarski of the National Cooperative Business Association, Lynn Haskin of the Philadelphia Association of CDCs, Michael Anderson of the Center for Community Change, Nate Coffman of the Ohio CDC Association, Frank Woodruff of NACEDA, and event coordinator Amy Dominici. The committee welcomes suggestions for presenters and panel discussions. Please contact Frank at fwoodruff@naceda.org with suggestions.

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Drug Free Communities Support Program provides support to activities with a primary focus on establishing and strengthening collaboration in support of the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger).

In addition, proposed activities should have a primary focus on reducing substance abuse among adults over time by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse.

The application deadline is March 22, 2012.

50% of all sales benefit REACH:

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you . .

• March 13 – Broadway
• 1504 NE Broadway 5pm – close

• April 10 – Ringlers Pub
• 1332 W. Burnside 5pm – close

• May 15 – Barley Mill
• 1629 SE Hawthorne Blvd 5pm – close

• June (TBA) – Blue Moon Tavern & Grill
• 432 NW 21st Ave. 5pm – close

New Enterprise Community Partners Live Online Event:

Resident Relocation and Minimizing Displacement
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern)

Register

Description
Large-scale affordable housing redevelopments typically are the result of careful planning. They also can be hastened by natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.  Whatever the impetus, residents of the original development must move their households. But how far must they move, and must they sever all their long-term ties to friends, family and community?

In San Francisco’s HOPE SF redevelopment, stakeholders are working hard to provide residents the opportunity to relocate on-site and maintain their social connections. In New Orleans’ Lafitte redevelopment, the redevelopment team and their social service partners have been staying in touch with former residents from shortly after Katrina  in 2006 through the opening of the first reopened apartments at the site during the past two years. Both strategies require a high degree of planning, research and coordination, and the payoffs could be great.

Join us to learn more about what is being learned in these two large-scale redevelopments about retaining current residents, and attracting former ones back.

Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East‘s Rivergate Commons, a 12-home build in north Portland, is near completion and volunteers are busy with finishing touches and landscaping. Please join our volunteers, staff, sponsors and the community as we welcome these families home and present them with the key to their front door.

Learn more.

The Department of Justice‘s Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Assistance Program supports activities designed to enhance the safety of rural victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking and projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas.

Special consideration will be given to multi-disciplinary efforts to improve the criminal justice system’s response to sexual assault, including the development or enhancement of investigative and prosecutorial efforts. Special consideration will also be given to activities enhancing the capacity of organizations to provide services to historically underrepresented populations within rural areas or communities, such as individuals in communities of color; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning individuals; individuals with disabilities; and individuals experiencing abuse in later life. The application deadline is March 29, 2012.