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Amy Sample-Ward, Holly Ross and Eleigh Doineau from NTEN

Portland, July 19th. Charity movers and shakers learned about new social media at workshop organized by Meyer Memorial Trust. Amy Sample Ward, Holly Ross and Eleigh Doineau from NTEN offered advice. NTEN and PAGATIM joined forces to educate over 175 nonprofit leaders.

Elliot Center, 1226 SW Salmon St., Portland

Resource tables were set up at the Elliot Center

PortlandSocietyPage.com offered information on how to submit stories to our free public platform for nonprofit news. Participants were also encouraged to send PortlandSocietyPage.com information about upcoming charity events. The gathering featured keynote presentations by Amy Sample Ward from NTEN and Laura Mansfield, Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer at PAGATIM.

Laura Mansfield, Co-Founder of PAGATIM, Marie Deatherage, Directorof Communication & Learning for the Meyer Memorial Trust, Tara Rojas from PAGATIM, and Mike Phillips from Myer Memorial Trust

Laura Mansfield is the Co-Founder of PAGATIM, Marie Deatherage is the Director of Communication & Learning for the Meyer Memorial Trust, Tara Rojas is from PAGATIM, and Mike Phillips is from Myer Memorial Trust

Sean Larkin from Think Shout Inc., Holly Ross from NTEN and Drew Bernard from PledgeMatic

The event was sold out.

Monica Down from 24 Notion and Matthew Koren from CauseIt Inc.

Lila Pigott from Idealist Consulting, Laura Finney from CafeGive Social and Laura Price is the CCO of CafeGive Social

Dara Westling from TechSoup Global and Delona Long from OpenSourcery.com

The workshop offered resources and tools to help nonprofits make the most of online opportunities for reaching audiences.

About the organizers of the event, Meyer Memorial Trust:

Vision:

A flourishing and equitable Oregon

Mission:

We work with and invest in organizations, communities, ideas and efforts that contribute to a flourishing and equitable Oregon.

Values:

As of December, 2011, Meyer Memorial Trust had made 6,687 awards for more than $554 million since it began operating in 1982.
The man behind the Meyer Memorial Trust – Fred G. Meyer – was ahead of his time. His values – to innovate, take risks, embrace diversity, adapt to changing circumstances, contribute to economic development/parity and to develop the power of the mind – continue to create and inform our culture, influencing what we do and how we do it.

We fulfill our mission using a mix of strategic, proactive and responsive investments, including grant-making, loans, initiatives, commissioning research, supporting policy advocacy and a range of community and nonprofit engagement strategies.

First called the Fred G. Meyer Charitable Trust, this foundation was created by the late Fred G. Meyer, who built the chain of retail stores bearing his name throughout the Pacific Northwest. When Mr. Meyer died in 1978 at the age of 92, his will established the charitable trust, bequeathing it nearly two million shares of stock in Fred Myer Inc. In 1982, most of the designated funds were transferred from the estate and the charitable trust began operating. All stock in Fred Meyer Inc. was sold prior to the transfer.

Elisa Klein

I’ve been a professional journalist and writer since 1987, (and long-time reporter for KOIN-TV.) As a nationally published reporter, with a Master’s Degree in Journalism, I love to report positive news and information. Journalism has also connected me with another non-profit where I served as a leader; the Northwest’s biggest writer’s organization: The Willamette Writers.