Category Archives: volunteer opportunity

Trucks for Trees–Friends of Trees Needs You!

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Volunteer with your truck…and help plant trees in your neighborhood!

How to Get Involved:
Can you volunteer at the King Tree Planting?
February 12, 2011 8am-1pm
Yes? Great! Contact your Neighborhood Coordinator:
Irek Wielgosz (503) 828-6943

Want to volunteer with your truck at another planting?
Contact Friends of Trees at 503-282-8846 x18 or visit www.FriendsOfTrees.org/Volunteer. We need your help moving young trees to their new planting sites at your neighbors’ homes. Breakfast and lunch are included with this morning volunteer opportunity!

Get in on Friends of Trees’ Spring Planting

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Your tree is waiting (and waiting) for you
People in more than 40 neighborhoods can still buy trees to plant at their homes this spring. If you haven’t ordered your tree yet, don’t miss this chance to make your home happier, healthier and wealthier. This slideshow on January 20 can help you choose which tree to order. Read about a new Portland study that links tree-lined neighborhoods with healthy newborns.

Be a leader this winter
If you missed our fall crew leader trainings, it’s not too late to join our team of well-loved leaders. Sign up online for our January 27 and 29 trainings.
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Step It Up Helps Youth Succeed

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From Step It Up:

Career development is important, especially for teens. At a time when youth unemployment is at historic highs, learning what being in the workplace is like, what skills are needed, and how to act are essential for youth to achieve success in the workforce and in life. But many youth are disconnected from these opportunities, having no chance to learn skills that will help them succeed in a professional career. Alexis was one of these teens, yet through Step It Up, Inc.’s programs, she was able to gain career knowledge, experiential learning, and continuous support.
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Community Watershed Stewardship Grants

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2011-2012 CWSP Grant Application and Workshops

Now Accepting Applications!
The Community Watershed Stewardship Program is now accepting applications. CWSP provides annual stewardship grants of up to $10,000 for community projects that protect and enhance watershed health.

Funded projects engage the community and benefit the watershed and can include education, stormwater management, restoration, pavement removal, community gardens, and more.

Please visit the CWSP website to learn how to apply, view resources for grant writers, and download the 2011-2012 application packet.

Applications are due Friday April 8th at 4 PM.

Community Watershed Stewardship Information Sessions
Join the CWSP at one of our upcoming community events to learn about the application process and talk to others involved in community watershed stewardship. Your RSVP to Garrett Phillips at 503-823-7917, or garrett.phillips@portlandoregon.gov, is appreciated but not required.

Saturday, January 22nd
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Central Library
801 SW 10th Avenue

Wednesday, January 26th
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Kenton Library
8226 N. Denver

Thursday, February 17th
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
East Portland Community Center
Multipurpose Room 3
740 SE 106th Avenue

We’re here to help
Call Garrett Phillips or Bridger Wineman at 503.823.7917 to talk about specific project ideas or learn how to become involved in watershed stewardship in your community. We can help with project scoping, refer you to technical expertise, and help you make connections with other groups.

2009-2010 Annual Report with Project Examples

Community Watershed Stewardship Program Website

King Mural Proposal Chosen by PSU

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The King Mural Project proposal, on behalf of King Neighborhood Association, was chosen by the PSU community development colloquium. A group of graduate students from Portland State University’s Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning will be working to shape and define the scope of the project, partners involved, timeline, and other factors.

The envisioned project is a collaboration between one or more nonprofit groups that serve youth, one or more muralists, the King Neighborhood Association, and other interested community groups. The idea is that a group of King teens will receive paid employment to work with an experienced muralist to create a mural within King.

The PSU students will be working to answer these questions:
-which community groups wish to be involved?
-are there enough teens in King interested in being involved?
-where should the mural be sited?
-what grants are applicable?
-what is the overall budget?
-which artists will be involved?
-what role will each community group play, including the KNA?
-what is the overall timeline?

A rough timeline: research into these questions, and others, will take place between now and the end of the school year; grant-writing and planning to continue fall/winter 2011/12; actual project started not until summer of 2012.