KING BACKPACK PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH

NEW NOT-FOR-PROFIT ONLINE

CHARITABLE SHOPPING VENTURE SHOP2CARE

The King Backpack Program is thrilled to announce that it has been selected by Shop2Care, a new not-for-profit online charitable shopping program, as one of its first cause partners.   An initial grant from the Shop2Care Foundation of $5,000 is providing two (2) meals per weekend, for 45 children, for a year, a total of 4,680 meals. Without this program, these children would not have access to nutritious food over the weekend. Shop2Care chose the King Backpack Program as a partner due to its strong collaborative programming, proven track record, and high social return on investment.

The King Backpack Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, anticipates that it will be the recipient of thousands of dollars of future donations from Shop2Care members as they determine how to direct the retailer rebates generated from their normal online shopping behavior. All of this will occur at no additional cost to the member, but will have a significant impact on the issue of hunger.

Alan Silver, King Backpack Program Director, states, “The King Backpack Program is grateful to partner with Shop2Care in gathering funds to directly reduce hunger for the most vulnerable among us. Regular meals are foundational to healthy, vital lives for our youth.”

Shop2Care founder, Mark Asofsky, a dedicated philanthropist, adds, “Shop2Care donates consumers’ retailer rebates, when directed by members to do so, to nonprofit agencies that create significant impact on specific areas of need in the United States. We believe that the King Backpack Program will be a strong cause partner, helping Shop2Care powerfully impact the issue of hunger.”

Shop2Care’s partnership with the King Backpack Program is described in more detail on the Shop2Care website, at www.shop2care.org in the ‘Cause’ section under ‘Hunger’.

About The King Backpack Program

The King Backpack Program serves two weekend lunches to fifty-five King Elementary School children who are at risk of hunger on the weekends, by putting the lunches in their backpacks every Friday. The King Backpack Program is a partner to the Northeast Portland Backpack Lunch Program, a regional coordinator of lunch programs for children in need.

About Shop2Care

Shop2Care is an innovative charitable shopping program that enables it members to generate donations for causes they care about all while shopping online, at no additional cost to them. Members can direct their donation dollars to any number of the following causes: human services, hunger relief, health, children’s services and education. Shop2Care’s mission is to enable anyone to become a philanthropist simply by purchasing the products and services they already need or want while seamlessly shopping on their favorite online sites; to identify and highlight responsible, effective and impactful nonprofit organizations within the United States; and to raise money to benefit those in need in America. For more information on Shop2Care, or to register for free, visit: www.shop2care.org.

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What is this project?

The project is a $20 million financing initiative in North/Northeast Portland over the next five years. The effort is focused in the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area in response to the community’s well documented need for affordable housing and other investments in neighborhoods most impacted by displacement.
While the funds, along with those previously budgeted and programmed, will mostly be used to invest in buildings, the process for determining how and where to spend the money provides an opportunity to engage community members in ways that begin to address a long history of institutional racism and displacement of residents and businesses. (more)

Your voice is needed.

Community input will help shape the strategy. During Summer/Fall of 2014, Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) and community stakeholders will design a set of recommendations for prioritizing investment of these housing resources, that begins to address affordable housing needs.

Attend a Community Forum:

You will learn information about the current opportunities and how available affordable housing tools can be used. Participants will also see alternative scenarios for investments and programs. The goal is to seek consensus about which strategies most directly improve affordable housing stability and choices.

• Thursday 9/18/14 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Highland Christian Center, 7600 NE Glisan Street
• Saturday 9/27/14 from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at Matt Dishman Community Center, 77 NE Knott
• Thursday 10/9/14 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Gresham City Hall
• Saturday 10/11/14 from 9:00 a.m. – Noon at New Song Community Church, 2511 NE MLK

Here’s how you can be involved:

• Attend a Community Forum
• Learn more here (reports, media, etc.)
• Join the email list here
• Send us your thoughts and ideas here (email and phone)

As part of the City of Portland’s effort to provide properties with sewer connections that comply with city code, Environmental Services continues construction on the Inner NE Sewer Extension project. This project will also help protect public health, property, and the environment by increasing the capacity of the public sewer system, reducing the potential for basement backups, and reducing the likelihood of emergency maintenance work in the future.

A project map is available at www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/InnerNE.

DEVELOPMENTS OF NOTE

Periodic traffic delays on NE Prescott will continue through mid-September

• On and off through mid-September, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, motorists and cyclists should expect delays on NE Prescott Street between NE 6th and 10th avenues.  Crews will be installing new main public sewer pipe and constructing several manholes in phases. Some phases will require flaggers to direct traffic around the work zone.

CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE

Below is the estimated Inner NE Sewer Extension construction schedule for the rest of this week and the next two weeks. As the contractor completes work on each street, crews apply a temporary asphalt patch over trenches used for construction. They will return at a later date to apply permanent paving.

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Inner NE Sewer Extension Construction Update: August 7, 2014

As part of the City of Portland’s effort to provide properties with sewer connections that comply with city code, Environmental Services continues construction on the Inner NE Sewer Extension project. This project will also help protect public health, property, and the environment by increasing the capacity of the public sewer system, reducing the potential for basement backups, and reducing the likelihood of emergency maintenance work in the future.

A project map is available at www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/InnerNE.

DEVELOPMENTS OF NOTE

• Beginning next week and continuing on and off through mid-September, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, motorists and cyclists should expect delays on NE Prescott Street between NE 6th and 10th avenues.  Crews will be installing new main public sewer pipe and constructing several manholes in phases. Some phases will require flaggers to direct traffic around the work zone.

CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE

Below is the estimated Inner NE Sewer Extension construction schedule for the rest of this week and the next two weeks. As the contractor completes work on each street, crews apply a temporary asphalt patch over trenches used for construction. They will return at a later date to apply permanent paving.

The rest of this week

• NE 7th Avenue (Going – Wygant) – main public sewer pipe and manhole construction
• NE 8th Avenue (Going – Wygant) – main public sewer pipe, manhole, and lateral branch construction

Week of August 11

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