Trainings

Neighbors West-Northwest provides many trainings to support neighborhood leaders and the community as a whole. Some recent trainings have included a Block Party Blast Off,  Advocacy in Action, the Livability & Public Safety Town Hall, and Communities Creating Change: Tips from your Neighbors on Successful Community Projects . Additionally, we’ve provided many board trainings for our member neighborhood associations and the coalition. For more information about our trainings, please contact Angela Southwick.

Upcoming Training

Clean Up Coordinator Training

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 pm
Place: Good Samaritan Hospital, Bldg 2, Second Floor Conference Room, 1040 NW 22nd Avenue

Planning a bulky-waste clean-up inviting your neighbors to clean-out the garages and storage spaces while promoting recycling and reuse? Planning a litter patrol and looking to create a positive experience for your volunteers while shining up your community?

Come to the NWNW Clean-up Coordinator Workshop to learn about:

  • Planning a successful clean-up event
  • Making the most of resources available to Neighborhood Associations from SOLV, Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability & Metro
  • Completing forms and reporting materials.

If you have specific questions, bring those too. Hope to see you there!

When arriving for the event, enter from 22nd, go straight ahead to elevators, up to second floor, and turn Right. For more information, contact Jennifer Kirk, 503 823-4265 or find some clean-up resources online.

 

Citywide Community Leadership Series

Portland’s district coalition offices, including NWNW, and Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) offer trainings series for Portland’s community leaders. No trainings are schedules at this time, but keep your eyes open.

Neighborhood Associations and their Members: Roles and Responsibilities

Neighborhood association board members have the opportunity to learn from and ask questions of one of Oregon’s leading experts on non-profit governance and management—Portland attorney Cindy Cumfer.

Cindy has years of experience working with neighborhood associations in Oregon—and is a co-author of the definitive “Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook.” Nearly all Portland’s neighborhood associations are registered as non-profit corporations with the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office and need to follow Oregon’s Nonprofit Corporation Law.

Bring your neighborhood association Articles of Incorporation, bylaws and any board policies with to both workshops. Get your questions answered. Meet neighborhood leaders from across the city.

  •     Legal requirements of membership corporations, including a consent from each member
  •     How neighborhood associations can handle the consent issue and how different neighborhoods are doing it
  •     Governance in a membership corporation
  •     Role of the membership role in a neighborhood associations and how different neighborhoods are doing this
  •     Rights of members
  •     Notice to and voting by members
  •     Records you need to keep related to being a membership organization
  •     Members’ rights to access records.

Date:        Thurs. March 29, 2012
Time:        7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Place:      St. Philip Neri Catholic Church
Carvlin Hall, 2408 SE 16th & Division
Parking:     Parking is available on site.
Transit:     On the #4 Bus Line

Snacks and beverages will be provided.

REGISTER ONLINE:  Neighborhood Associations and their Members–March 29, 2012

This training opportunity is brought to you by:  Neighbors West-Northwest, Central Northeast Neighbors, East Portland Neighborhood Office, North Portland Neighborhood Services, Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, Inc., Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Coalition, Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc., and the City of Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement.

For more information about these workshops, contact Paul Leistner at the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, 503 823-5284.

Accessibility:  The facilities for the February 29 and March 29 trainings both are wheelchair accessible. The Office of Neighborhood Involvement will make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and provide language interpretation upon request. Please notify us no less than five business days prior to the event by contacting Paul Leistner, 503-823-5284, or via the City’s TTY at 503-823-6868, or by calling the Oregon Relay Service at 800-735-2900.