Community Building

Candidates' Forum

Date of event:

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. is hosting a Candidates’ Fair in an effort to provide the residents in our coalition the opportunity to meet the candidates, hear the issues, get answers to questions and make informed decisions. SWNI’s mission is to empower citizen action to improve the livability of Southwest neighborhoods, and our coalition area includes 65,000 residents and 39,000 jobs. We want to provide you with an opportunity to meet with candidates and ask questions. The panels will focus on candidates for city commissioner.

Community Building

Governing and Managing Your Neighborhood Association

Date of event:

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Office of Neighborhood Involvement and all seven Coalitions are hosting a special training by Cindy Comfer. Cindy has years of experience working with neighborhood associations in Oregon-and is a co-author of the definitive "Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook."

Find out what neighborhood board members are supposed to do to manage their neighborhood association.
Explore strategies for how to do it and find out how others are managing their neighborhood associations.
Learn about common problem areas for neighborhood association leaders, including clarifying the board's governance role, having good financial controls policies, and more.

Discuss how a neighborhood manages itself, including rules about the directors' obligations to be informed, attend meetings and follow the legal standard of care; and the use of committees and officers and policies to keep board business moving and efficient.

Community Building

SW Hope: Feed the Hungry 2009

Local churches, synagogues, and organizations are working together to meet the needs of hungry people in southwest Portland.

What is the need?

The number of families seeking food assistance in Southwest Portland has greatly increased this past year. In 2007, Neighborhood House, our local community service organization, distributed boxes of food to 230 to 280 families a month, feeding approximately 800 individuals. In the fall of 2008 and into the winter of 2009, food boxes have been distributed to 400 - 420 families, feeding up to 1,300 individuals.

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Community Building

Neighborhood Associations and their Members—Roles and Responsibilities

Date of event:

Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Neighborhood Associations and their Members—Roles and Responsibilities — Thursday, March 29, 2012

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;