05/05/2021
Chief Joseph Elementary Community Garden Farm Stand | Saturday, May 8th from 10am-1pm
Via Chief Joseph:
Next weekend, we’ll celebrate Spring with the first Chief Joseph Community Garden Market of the season! We’ll have early spring vegetables, herbs, vegetable seeds, and some Mother’s Day-appropriate flower arrangements and flowering containers as well.
The stand will run from 10-1 and be staffed only by adults. They will be wearing masks and keeping their distance from one another. We ask for your help to keep everyone safe by wearing a mask yourself while visiting the farm stand and garden.
We are encouraging the community, both school and neighborhood, to feel at home visiting the garden, as well as picking anything you see that you'd like to eat.
This is donation-based, with all proceeds going to Mudbone Grown, a black-owned farm enterprise that promotes inter-generational community-based farming, creating measurable and sustainable environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts in communities. Visit their site and read about all the great work they are doing (www.mudbonegrown.com).
We also understand that we are living through unprecedented times and if you are unable to donate, please don't let that get in the way of coming to get some delicious vegetables, herbs or flowers.
We can accept cash at the farm stand, or you can donate to Mudbone directly through Cashapp: $mudbonegrownllc or their site.
05/04/2021
Chief Joseph Elementary: 5th Grade “Graduation” Party
Sharing via Chief Joseph:
--Hello Chief Joseph and Arbor lodge community!
We need your help.
We have a class of 5th graders who are graduating from elementary school after a very challenging year, one they have endured with grace and resiliency. So, we're throwing them a party in the park to celebrate!
From 5pm-6:45pm, we will have live music and safe snacks/drinks. At 6:45, we are planning something special for them and this is where we'll need your help. At the end of each year, the rest of the grades give the departing 5th graders a "clap out". Since this is not a normal year, they won't have the opportunity to experience that!
So, we'd love it if the CJ community and also the surrounding neighborhood were involved as well.
If we could get as many people as possible to show up and line the edges of the arbor lodge playground pathway at 6:45, the organizers will get the kids over and we can give them a HUGE collective "clap-out"! We would love for the clap-out to be a surprise for them, so PLEASE keep that part of the evening confidential.
Join us on June 11 from 5pm-7pm for some musical entertainment and pre-packaged snacks/drinks.
Please wear a mask and have your child/children do the same, social distancing encouraged of course.
THANK YOU for your support in giving our sweet kids something special to end their time at Chief Joseph Elementary!
05/02/2021
Our Streets PDX | Volunteer Signup
Dear Arbor Lodge Neighbors,
Our Streets PDX is a N. Portland non-profit organization. One of their projects is the community garden at Ockley Green Middle School in Arbor Lodge Neighborhood. Currently there are signups for all Mondays in May from 5-7pm.
To sign up for one of the Monday volunteer slots for the garden, click here now: https://signup.com/go/SeoYDSd
To find out more about Our Streets PDX, go to https://ourstreetspdx.org/
I hope to see you at the garden on a Monday in May.
04/27/2021
2021 Nature in Neighborhoods community stewardship and restoration grants now open
June 22, 2021 Deadline
Want to restore and care for nature in your community? A Metro Nature in Neighborhoods community stewardship and restoration grant can help get your idea off the ground if you have a vision for:
Improving water quality,
Creating fish and wildlife habitat,
Removing invasive species,
Addressing inequities in the conservation movement, and/or
Restoring nature in the Portland metropolitan area
Grant recipients have planted native species at Ross Island, improved water quality and amphibian habitat in Willow Creek, and restored habitat at the Sandy River Delta for fish, migrating birds and turtles all while engaging local residents in being stewards of their local natural areas.
Metro grants expand partnerships to inspire new approaches to restoration, including economic and environmental equity. In the Jade District, APANO, Columbia Land Trust and Audubon worked together with private landowners to increase community stewardship and improve habitat. In Hillsboro, Depave transformed the M&M Marketplace’s parking lot from gray to green by engaging community members that included pavement removal, rain garden creation, and native plant installation. Momentum Alliance and Northwest Youth Corps co-created a diverse conservation leadership program for youth interns with year-round programming and coaching.
Metro’s Nature in Neighborhood community stewardship and restoration grants support programs like these.
This round of grants is possible thanks to support from voters, who in 2016 renewed the parks and natural areas levy, extending funding to 2023. New this round, the community stewardship and restoration grants will be offered every two years.
The community stewardship and restoration grants program will award $700,000 this year. Projects can be completed in one, two or three years. Large grants are up to $100,000 and small grants are up to $50,000. Metro hopes to fund a mix of smaller and larger projects, in order to maximize the number and variety of organizations that participate in this funding opportunity.
Groups throughout greater Portland are encouraged to apply.
Click HERE to learn more about Metro community stewardship and restoration grants and fill out a simple application by June 22, 2021.
To learn more and ask questions, contact the grants program manager, Karissa Lowe, Program Manager, Nature in Neighborhoods Community Grants, Karissa.lowe@oregonmetro.gov
04/27/2021
City of Portland | Now Accepting Applications for Portland Harbor Community Grants
The City’s Portland Harbor Program is now accepting grant applications to support communities’ participation in the Superfund cleanup. BIPOC-led organizations and groups with strong relationships with communities disproportionately impacted by the Portland Harbor site and cleanup are encouraged to apply. Applications are due May 21. The grants award between $5,000 and $50,000 to support meaningful involvement of communities in the Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup process. A total of $100,000 in grants is available for award this funding cycle. Learn more!
Funds are available to support:
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) leadership in the Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup-related public participation processes.
Building community capacity to engage in scientific, technical, policy, and process topics related to the cleanup of the Portland Harbor Superfund.
Fostering collaboration between Portland communities and the City’s Portland Harbor Program on Superfund related topics.
Applying for Portland Harbor community grants is a two-step process. Submit an application by May 21, 2021. If your application is selected, you will be invited to provide a budget and participate in a 30-minute Zoom interview to discuss your proposal in more detail. Learn more about the grants including eligible activities, selection criteria, and how to apply.
Attend a virtual information session to learn more!
6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 28. Register for this session.
10-11:30 a.m., Thursday April 29. Register for this session.
Can’t make it to an information session? Contact Portland Harbor Community Involvement Coordinator Jessica Terlikowski at 503-865-6704 or jessica.terlikowski@portlandoregon.gov.