Get project details and give your input to the Bureau of Environmental Services staff.
Location: Multnomah Arts Center, Room 7, 7688 SW Capitol Highway
Contact BES: (503) 823-2827
See more at the portlandonline project webpage...

Two open houses: Thursday, April 12 and Saturday, April 14
Get project details and give your input to the Bureau of Environmental Services staff.
Location: Multnomah Arts Center, Room 7, 7688 SW Capitol Highway
Contact BES: (503) 823-2827
See more at the portlandonline project webpage...

Southwest Hills Kiwanis Club third annual Pancake Breakfast - 100% of net proceeds to benefit SW Community Health Center.
Location: Lucky Labrador Public House, Multnomah Village, 7675 SW Capitol Highway
Adults - $5, Children under 10 - $3
All You Can Eat: Pancakes - Sausage - OJ - Coffee - Hot Chocolate

ODOT - in conjunction with the City of Portland, TriMet, the National College of Natural Medicine, Portland State Business Accelerator, and the South Portland Neighborhood Association - is currently designing a bicycle and pedestrian safety project with a focus on traffic calming. The project extends along Kelly Avenue from the west end of the Ross Island Bridge to SW 1st Avenue. The project is expected to improve safety and to reduce the overall severity of crashes in the area. Please visit the project webpage for more details. We’re hosting an informal Open House about the project at the National College of Natural Medicine on April 18th. Please join us by stopping by on April 18th, anytime between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The NCNM Annex Building is located at 2717 SW Kelly Avenue.

What is it about Portland that encourages you to stay here as you age? You have a role in helping the City of Portland create livable communities for its boomers and older adults. Your ideas matter.
 
Location: Watershed at Hillsdale, 6388 SW Capitol Hwy
Contact: agefriendlypdx@gmail.com, or 503-­‐381-­‐3178

If you would like to close down your street for a neighborhood block party, follow the instructions below. You cannot close a street that is on a bus route or has a bus layover. If you plan to close your street, you will need to obtain specific barricades to be placed at both ends of the street. Barricades can be rented for a small fee from local vendors.

SWNI Annual Report FY 2011-2012

Southwest Neighborhoods has worked with over 500 volunteers during the last year to support citizen involvement and community-building activities. Together we secured funding for playgrounds, small grant projects, a mural, and advocated for transportation improvements including traffic calming measures, sidewalks, and bike lanes in our neighborhoods. Take a minute to review our Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2011-12. Take note of the significant amount of funds leveraged by the City’s investment through our grant agreement with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement and the number of activities and accomplishments measured in our performance indicator reports.

SUPPORT NATURE PLAY! Please join us as we celebrate spring, meet current neighbors and raise money for further development of the nature play area at Spring Garden Park. This event made possible by a grant from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement and Southwest Neighborhoods.

Celebrate Earth Day with an evening of music and song on April 20, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm, at the First Unitarian Church, SW 12th and Salmon St., Portland, in Eliot Chapel. The featured artist is Michael Allan Harrison. The program will also include other instrumental and vocal offerings. Everyone is welcome. Donations gratefully accepted, and RSVPs are appreciated.

Join us for Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. annual volunteer recognition event.
Location: Multnomah Arts Center Auditorium

Get energized, join our happy cleanup crew on Saturday, May 26th from 9 am to 1 pm at the Portland Christian Center, 5700 SW Dosch Road for our Annual Spring Cleanup. Bring your bulky waste, yard debris, and scrap metal items for recycling. We will also be accepting reuseable household items for Community Warehouse. If you are a senior and or disabled and need a volunteer to collect your items and bring them to our cleanup site, call the Southwest Neighborhood Office at 503-823-4592 by Wednesday, May 23rd. We need volunteers! Lend a hand, bring your truck and help a senior in need, or help load drop boxes. We feed our volunteers and promise you will have fun!

Get Involved in the City of Portland's Budget

Location: Cleveland High School Cafeteria, 3400 SE 26th
Link: http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/?c=26061

Since 2006, each spring Southwest Portland Faith Organizations and Community Partners work together to meet the needs of hungry people in Southwest Portland. In 2012, the need continues to be at the highest level we've ever experienced.

Click here for the 2012 Brochure!

Portland Police and Crime Prevention Coordinators are holding a Prescription Drug Turn In where residents can anonymously drop off unused and expired medications for safe disposal. This is a free event.

Where: Mirabella Retirement Community, 3550 Southwest Bond Avenue (Participants will be routed through Pennoyer off of SW River Pkwy)
Contact: Stefanie Adams, Crime Prevention Coordinator at 503-823-3131

The Multnomah Historical Association meets the first Monday of every month, except January and September when the meeting is held the second Monday of the month.

Location: Village Offices Meeting Room, 2929 SW Multnomah Blvd
Contact: Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen, pattitwirler@comcast.net

The Multnomah Historical Association meets at 7 pm on the first Monday of every month, unless noted otherwise.

Location: Village Offices Meeting Room, 2929 SW Multnomah Blvd
Contact: Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen, pattitwirler@comcast.net
Website: http://www.multnomahhistorical.com/

The Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. (SWNI) Transportation Committee meets the 3rd Monday of every month. January and February meetings held on the 3rd Wednesday to accommodate Martin Luther King Jr Day and Presidents' Day holidays.

Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Multnomah Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy. Room 29
Contact: Chair, Roger Averbeck, 503-679-1447, transportation@swni.org

A Westside Candidates and Ballot Measure Forum will be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at 7:00 pm, in the Multnomah Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy. Candidate tables will open at 6:30 pm. Come and meet the candidates and ask them your questions. The forum is co-sponsored by Southwest Neighborhoods, Neighbors West-Northwest and the Multnomah Neighborhood Association to address westside neighborhood livability and prosperity.

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.

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.