PortlandSocietyPage.com, the free public platform for nonprofit news, is excited to be a part of the on-line communication workshop: “Communicating for Good: From Goals and Strategy to Brave Authentic Stories.” The workshop, presented by Meyer Memorial Trust, is on Thursday, July 19, 2012. Join us! Here are all the details from Meyer Memorial Trust’s Director of Communications & Learning, Marie Deatherage.
Meyer Memorial Trust, NTEN and PAGATIM are joining forces to offer up resources and tools that can help nonprofit organizations make the most of online opportunities for reaching audiences. You might well be amazed at the wealth of resources available locally that can help you map out a communications plan and tell your stories like you’ve never done before. This gathering will feature keynote presentations by Amy Sample Ward, currently at NTEN and formerly NetSquared, and Laura Mansfield, Co-Founder Chief Visionary Officer at PAGATIM. In addition to these great speakers, we’ll have a resource fair where you can learn about related services and products and meet the folks offering them.
8:30 to noon
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Elliot Center, 1226 SW Salmon St., Portland
Space is limited, registration is required. Register HERE
Meyer Memorial Trust is covering nearly all the cost of the event, but we are charging a nominal $5 registration fee to cover the cost of refreshments. [In addition, we’ve had problems in past events with so many folks enthusiastically signing up as soon as an event is announced that all spaces are taken, we have to turn people away, but then a sizable enough number of people don’t show up and seats end up being wasted. Nothing we’ve tried has worked in the past, this is our next experiment.
Laura Mansfield has an award winning background in broadcast journalism, documentary filmmaking, non-profit management, and social entrepreneurship. Laura and her aura is a power to be reckoned with as her ability to connect with people and capture their story is like no other. She is determined that ‘brave authentic stories will change the world’.
Amy Sample Ward is NTEN’s membership director, blogger, facilitator and trainer having worked with groups and spoken at events in the US, UK and around the world. In 2009, she co-authored Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact, and has contributed to various other publications about social media. She is a conversation-starter and thought-leader, writing about strategic uses of new technologies for communities and organizations on her blog and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Portland, June 19th. Supporters raised their glasses to salute the American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter at its annual membership meeting. The event included a celebration of key Red Cross partners and volunteers. Cassy Martin from Fred Meyer, John Prescott, incoming chair of American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter, and Judy Robinson from Fred Meyer joined in the festivities. (Photo Credit, Andie Petkus)
The celebration was held at American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter headquarters on North Vancouver Avenue.
Leading up to the event, which recapped the year’s accomplishments, Oregon Trail Chapter leadership sought to recognize local businesses that support the mission of Red Cross through direct philanthropy, training employees how to save a life, allowing employees to volunteer and encouraging individual preparedness by sponsoring blood drives.
John Prescott, incoming chair of American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter, with Jason Redding, owner of Horizon Restoration. Redding, a member of Red Cross board of directors, was awarded a board leadership award and the organization’s Philanthropist of the Year Award for his personal and professional dedication to Red Cross services.
“This full-circle support – training, volunteerism, philanthropy and blood donations – is a 360 degree partnership and one to which only a handful of companies in metropolitan Portland have committed. We are very grateful.” said Maree Wacker, chapter CEO.
John Prescott, incoming chair of American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter, with Don Pearson, regional President of Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo is one of 16 companies to receive the full-circle award.
John Prescott, with Intel executives Elisabeth Zeller and Tripp Robinson. Elisabeth Zeller is senior finance and operations manager, Intel Foundation; Tripp Robinson is emergency manager at Intel and is a board member for American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter.
Lauren Woodward, volunteer services, and Laura Reese, donor relations coordinator, welcomed guests to the event.
Anne Kinnaman and Lindsay Pour support American Red Cross health & safety services.
In 1917, concerned community members joined together and opened the Portland Red Cross. Their mission was to assist their neighbors during one of the world’s greatest disasters: World War I. For almost a century, the community has relied on the Red Cross during times of both conflict and peace.
For more than 90 years, thousands of Oregon Trail Chapter volunteers have provided disaster relief, blood and blood products, health education and services to military families in Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Multnomah, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill counties. Our chapter responsibilities now include Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and Baker Counties.
We count on the generosity of our donors and the commitment of our volunteers to ensure our history continues well into the future. Clara Barton once said, “It is not in its past that the glories of the Red Cross lie, but in the possibilities it has created for the future.”
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Portland, June 21st. Returning Veterans Project (RVP) supporters gathered at the First Unitarian Church to celebrate success. Carol Levine (RVP Founder) and Belle Landau (RVP Executive Director) enjoyed the social hour. Carol Levine talked about the nonprofit’s history and the outstanding work of its members, supporters and volunteers. Cameron Smith read a message from Governor Kitzhaber and the tone was set for Joe Buck (RVP Client) to offer his personal “Thank You from a Veteran”. His message brought some to tears.
Carol Levine and Belle Landau hugged Vetern, Joe Buck after a heartfelt speech.
Margaret Eichler PhD, LPC, and Suzanne Best, PhD both generously volunteer for the RVP. Margaret works in trauma care and helps many of her interns get involved with RVP. Suzanne has been working with veterans since 1996 and got involved in RVP when it was just a year old.
RVP Providers Barbara Steven, the only Chaplain in the RVP, Kyra Plume, LMT, and Sonia Connolly, LMT, smile as they prepared for The Welcome to begin.
Bryan Baisinger, Belle Landau, Abe Cohen, DC, Carol Levine and Sarah Smith gather together during the social hour and prepare for the start of the movie.
Throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington Returning Veterans Project works with veterans to provide a “holistic healing model” that creates a “new model of mental healthcare”, as Sarah Smith put it. The organization connects independent and politically unaffiliated health care practitioners to current service members and returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. RVP also offers its services to other members of the families. Sarah Smith explains the “holistic healing model” as a program which goes beyond mental health and provides services from acupuncturists, massage therapists, naturopaths, and many others. Program managers say counseling provided through the RVP is safe, confidential, and dedicated to the well-being of the service men and women and their families.
RVP will hold another event on June 30th at 7:00 pm. This event will also be held in the First Unitarian Church in Portland. This event is titled “Voice of Veterans” and is a welcoming ceremony featuring author Michael Meade and original poetry.
From The Returning Veterans Project:
“Returning Veterans Project was created as a conduit for professionals to give to veterans and their families, and for veterans to find health services in confidential settings that help them feel welcome in the community.”
At the event supporters also had a chance to get their first look at the award winning documentary, The Welcome.
About the film: The Welcome offers a fiercely intimate view of life after war: the fear, anger and isolation of post-traumatic stress that affects vets and family members alike. As we join these vets in a small room for an unusual five day healing retreat, we witness how the ruins of war can be transformed into the beauty of poetry.Their examples of unflinching honesty, courage and love lift us up, inspiring all of us once again to feel our common humanity, always the first casualty of war.
July 9-13 & 16-20, 2012
9am-4pm, Monday through Friday
Cost: A bargain at this year’s special price of only $200 a week or $310 for two weeks if you register by May 18, 2012!
MetroArts Kids Camp is sponsored by the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation and MetroArts.
Now in its 20th year, MetroArts Kids Camp gives 7-12 year olds a chance to experience all the arts – music, dance, theater, and visual arts – for one or two weeks at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Kids crank up their creativity through hands-on activities involving each art form and also enjoy live performances, video demonstrations, and classes taught by professional musicians, dancers, actors, and visual artists. Each week’s activities culminate with the Friday Project (see below). The camp is directed by grammy-nominated Artistic Director Niel DePonte, Oregon Symphony principal percussionist, Oregon Ballet Theater Conductor, and arts educator.
Music and visual arts classes sponsored by Harold & Arlene Schintzer Care Foundation. Dance and theater classes sponsored by MetroArts Inc.
What’s a Day at Camp Like?
Campers meet in the morning on the stage of the Newmark Theatre and are introduced to the key creative words of the day. They also connect with each other by playing theater games. Then it’s off to the first creative experience of the day in music, theater, dance or art! The children work on stage in the Newmark Theater, the Winningstad Theater and all the spaces of PCPA. Throughout the week each camper invents a work in all of the art forms. Whether it’s their own steps to a dance, a unique piece of visual art, a personal rendition of a theater “game”, or a special rhythmic idea in music, every class offers each camper the chance for self-expression. And at the end of the day, the campers share their ideas and accomplishments with each other and the faculty.
9:00 am-Noon
Students become choreographers, painters, composers, and playwriters. Through singing, movement, acting, drawing and other arts-related activities, they’ll create a new work of art daily.
Noon-12:30 pm
B.Y.O.L. (Bring Your Own Lunch)
12:30-4:00 pm
Student teams refine their newly created plays, dances, musical compositions and artwork, then use the performance skills learned that morning to present their works.
The Friday Project
The camper’s week climaxes with The Friday Project. It is a full day of working with multi-disciplinary creative processes that culminate into a “performance”. The performance is a demonstration of those processes at work and not meant to be a polished performance, but it is entertaining and clearly demonstrates the campers’ understandings of the processes used during its composition. The Friday Project always involves a guest artist or group who first perform for the campers and then teach them basic elements of their art form which are to be incorporated into the final performance. It is challenging work for a one-day project, but it is incredibly powerful for campers and parents alike as they see creative thinking “on the hoof!”
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