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		<title>Portland Creates $169M Urban Renewal Area Around PSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Kish, Portland Business Journal, May 16, 2012 Portland State President Wim Wiewel envisions a significantly larger university in the next two decades. Portland city commissioners on Wednesday voted 3-1 to create a $169 million urban renewal area around Portland State University. The new urban renewal area could revitalize the sleepy south side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAYA Family Center to Build Affordable Housing in Portland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Graves, The Oregonian, May 18, 2012 Photo by Tyler Tjomsland / The Oregonian &#60; Joe Phillips Sr., left, Jason VanDyke, center, and drum instructor Harold Paul practice traditional songs during a culture night at the Native American Youth and Family Center.The center announced today it is building nine housing units for low-income Native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safeco &#8211; Grants for Youth, Low-Income, Disabilites &#8211; rolling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Safeco Insurance Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations that enhance the quality of life in the communities served by the company in Oregon and Washington. The Foundation’s primary focus is on educational programs that encourage disadvantaged youth to excel academically and create opportunities for life-long success through learning. Organizations that address the health and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presbyterian Grant for Community Organizing &#8211; rolling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People participates in the empowerment of economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people who are seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression, and injustice. SDOP currently supports groups in the United States who are oppressed by poverty and social systems, want to take charge of their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Kitzhaber Has Busy Day in Bend &#8211; Visits NeighborImpact</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gov. Kitzhaber Has Busy Day in Bend: Tours Bend Business, Signs Proclamation,&#8221; By Kim Tobin, KTVZ.COM, May 17, 2012 BEND; Ore. &#8212; Gov. John Kitzhaber paid a visit to Bend Thursday, stopping by the Breedlove Guitars factory and NeighborImpact&#8217;s affordable housing complex, where he signed a state proclamation supporting community action organizations.&#8221;I saw a &#8216;hiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bud Clark Commons Lands Top Design Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andy Giegerich, Portland Business Journal, May 17, 2012 &#60; The American Institute of Architects named the Bud Clark Commons as the group’s top 2012 Housing and Urban Development design. A Portland low-income housing project has captured a prestigious architecture award. The American Institute of Architects named the Bud Clark Commons as the group’s top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two HUD Housing Counseling Outcome Studies Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two HUD Housing Counseling Outcome Studies Out, by the Oregon Housing Blog, 17 May 2012 Pre-purchase counseling study is HERE. Foreclosure counseling study is HERE.]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Education Galore &#8211; June/July</title>
		<link>http://oregonon.org/blog/2012/12560/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=12560</link>
		<comments>http://oregonon.org/blog/2012/12560/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Member Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three great ways to get your financial learn on from Innovative Changes (IC$): Financial Household Resiliency Workshops: IC$ now offering our Financial Household Resiliency workshops every other month! The next workshops are coming up in June and then again in August. See the June schedule below and sign up today!  Tuesday, June 5th 5:30-7:30 pm: Making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SB1552 &#8211; Please contact the Legislature to support foreclosure counseling funding</title>
		<link>http://oregonon.org/blog/2012/sb1552-please-contact-the-legislature-to-support-counseling-funding/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sb1552-please-contact-the-legislature-to-support-counseling-funding</link>
		<comments>http://oregonon.org/blog/2012/sb1552-please-contact-the-legislature-to-support-counseling-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Adkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Urgent: action needed to lobby E-Board and legislators to  support an allocation that will adequately fund foreclosure prevention counseling as part of SB1552.  Please use the form letter and information in the documents below to contact your legislators about this important issue!  Facts re foreclosure law and implementation 4.5.12 Housing Alliance — proposed Uses and Outcomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NeighborImpact Finishes Weatherization Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KTVZ.COM News Sources, May 14, 2012 REDMOND, Ore. &#8212; NeighborImpact recently completed its final weatherization project utilizing American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This special grant provided an additional $2.8 million over three years to expand NeighborImpact’s Weatherization Program for low-income home weatherization and improvements. Over the three years, NeighborImpact completed a total of 428 [...]]]></description>
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