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Working with Oregonians to enhance our quality of life by building livable urban and rural communities, protecting family farms and forests, and conserving natural areas.
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350PDX is the local chapter of 350.org, a climate change focused group of activists. Join us!
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a non-partisan and moderate public policy study and advocacy forum in Portland, Oregon.
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Automated Event Aggregation - into Filterable Community Calendars. Our main site is a hub for civic engagement and activist events. Our platform is available for purchase by other communities, coalitions and businesses.
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The Alliance for Democracy works to end corporate rule, establish true democracy and create a just society based on a sustainable, equitable society
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Historical Society with two House Museums
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Have an Activist-y event NOT sponsored by an existing organization? Is it Arts related? List it here!
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We provide free support services to mothers and families coping with perinatal mood disorders such as postpartum depression, anxiety or stress related to welcoming a child.
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Defending and Restoring Mt Hood National Forest
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LGBTQ political advocacy
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Benton County Community Rights Coalition (BCCRC) is a non-profit formed to educate citizens about their rights to local community governance.
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The Bicycle Transportation Alliance is an advocacy organization creating healthy, sustainable communities by making bicycling safe, convenient and accessible.
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Birthingway trains midwives, lactation consultants, and doulas in Portland, OR. We are passionate about empowered beginnings for new families, access to knowledgeable health care professionals, and informed choice in health care.
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Radical films, political remix videos, skill-shares from PDX
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BPF’s programs, publications, and practice groups link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change.
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Media-based gathering Sept 19th-21st, 2014
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Supporting activists in their work for social justice and ecological regeneration
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A bioregional education organization that supports participatory democracy, community resiliency, social equity and justice, and the rights of nature.
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City of Portland: Innovation. Collaboration. Practical Solutions.
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City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking.
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Fostering action to protect, enhance, restore and revitalize the Columbia Slough and its watershed.
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The Community Cycling Center, founded in 1994, broadens access to bicycling and its benefits. Our vision is to build a vibrant community where people of all backgrounds use bicycles to stay healthy and connected.
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A free resource for sharing community-building stories, strategies and ideas
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Our mission is to protect the rights of people & the natural world by dismantling corporate rule from the local up.
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Creatively Reducing Waste - Upcycled Art & Rescue Center
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Musical theatre company offering professional acting, singing and dancing education for children aged 4-18
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A hub for all things dance in Portland.
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Depave promotes the transformation of over-paved places to overcome the social and environmental impacts of pavement. We engage communities and reconnect urban landscapes to nature through action-oriented projects, education, advocacy and stewardship.
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Creating unique running events geared to challenge the individual and unite the running community
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Sustainability in Schools, Sustainability Education
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community workshop for everyone
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Friends of Family Farmers is working to promote and protect socially responsible agriculture in Oregon.
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The Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge is a non-profit dedicated to promoting and supporting educational programs of the Ridgefield NWR, and protecting and enhancing its wildlife habitat.
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Working to ensure that the beautiful Columbia Gorge will remain an unspoiled treasure for generations to come.
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Urban Forestry non-profit striving to engage community and promote social justice through tree planting events
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A community-based organization that engages the greater Lents community in developing a more livable, thriving place.
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A community-based organization that engages the greater Lents community in developing a more livable, thriving place.
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Groundwork Portland is a non-profit organization that brings about sustainable, community-led improvement of the physical environment in low-income areas, while advancing environmental and social justice.
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Hatch is a space for visionaries and realists who are working for a better world. It’s a place where local and social entrepreneurs can imagine, launch and scale enterprises that improve communities.
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An ongoing series of presentations by activists and scholars on a wide variety of social justice organizing topics in Portland and elsewhere.
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Home Orchard Society, established in 1975, is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to assisting both novice and expert fruit growers, preserving heirloom fruit varieties, and promoting the science, culture, and pleasure of growing fruit at home
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All-volunteer, free-roam, no-kill cat shelter in NE Portland since 1999.
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IBEA Foundation brings students together to aid local and international communities. "Innovation with a global purpose." Based in Portland, Oregon
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Indivisible Oregon advocates with our US Senators. We work to win in the Midterm elections to get our nation back.
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In Other Words is a non-profit, volunteer-run, feminist community center in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to inspire and cultivate feminist communities, nurturing social justice.
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The Johnson Creek Watershed Council is a community-based non-profit committed to restoring Johnson Creek. Our mission is to promote restoration and stewardship of a healthy Johnson Creek Watershed through sound science and community engagement.
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youth theater
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Just Out is the longest published LGBTQ publication in the Portland Oregon metro area, having started in 1983. Just Out is available as a monthly, all-glossy magazine.
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The people's radio station
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Know Your City is a nonprofit organization that connects people to place. To fulfill our mission, we organize tours, lectures, publications and youth programs. Our programs engage the public through experiential learning, creative placemaking, policy-maki
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LWV of Portland is a nonpartisan political organization--women since 1920 and men since 1974 as members--that encourages informed and active participation in government through voter service and civic education programs & action.
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We are a community organization formed to inspire and support citizen activism through loving intention.
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Our Mission: We educate and encourage people to make vegan choices for a healthy, sustainable, and compassionate world.
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Oregon Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities.
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Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA) exists to protect, defend and restore Oregon’s high desert. In partnership with more than 4,500 members and supporters, ONDA is the only group dedicated exclusively to the preservation of Oregon’s high desert.
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The Oregon Progressive Party is an official political party in Oregon that offers progressive candidates and pursues issues that the Democratic Party doesn't.
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Oregon chapter of the nation-wide environmental non-profit
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Promoting walking and making the conditions for walking safe, convenient and attractive throughout the Portland metropolitan region.
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Outdoor School for All is a project run by the Oregon Outdoor Education Coalition. This statewide coalition is working to secure statewide permanent public funding to send every 5th or 6th grader in Oregon to a full week of Outdoor School.
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Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
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Non-profit Tech & Tech for Social Change
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promoting nonviolent conflict resolution on local, national and international levels since 1992 in Portland, Oregon
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Our mission: 1. Provide workshops and literatures on political/civic skills 2. Plan actions with existing orgs 3. Build supportive local communities
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PolitiCrowd is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to further individual engagement in government by driving transparent, democratic communication between people and the politicians that represent them.
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We post garden work parties to a calendar on our website. Anyone can host a work party in their yard, or come to a work party listed on the calendar.
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Low income housing non-profit
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PFTP's mission is to increase equitable access to healthy food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.
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Portland Interfaith Gospel Choir (PIGC) is a community-based interfaith choir and non-profit. We aim to inspire joy and unity through traditional black gospel traditions that foster cross-cultural and cross-racial understanding and connection.
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Portland Rising Tide is an all-volunteer, grassroots network of groups and individuals who organize locally, promote community-based solutions to the climate crisis and take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change.
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The Shambhala Meditation Center of Portland is part of Shambhala, a global community of people dedicated to recognizing the basic goodness of all and revealing that goodness in every area of personal and societal life.
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Portland Solidarity Network is an organization that is dedicated to fighting for our rights in the workplace and at home. This includes fighting sexism, racism, ableism, and other forms of discrimination in a way that empowers us and builds momentum to cr
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unleashing the promise of business for social impact
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24-Hour Resources and Support for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
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Power Past Coal is an ever-growing alliance of health, environmental, businesses, clean-energy, faith and community groups working to stop coal export off the West Coast. There are over 100 organizations that are part of the coalition.
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Fighting the for-profit prison industry. We work to break the lobbying power of the private prison industry at all levels of government to make it possible to halt unjust incarcerations of immigrants and people of color.
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A community for social justice/fairness, environmental sustainability, and empathy-based relationships with self and others
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Our agency has been providing emergency domestic violence services for 35+ years. We offer shelter, crisis line support & ongoing advocacy to hundreds of families annually and work tirelessly to break the cycle of violence via community education.
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RCE (Regional Center of Expertise) Greater Portland connects diverse formal and informal sustainability education organizations in a collaborative network that multiplies our collective capacity to educate for a more sustainable future.
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Collaborately advocates for improved reentry services for justice-involved persons with mental illness and their families.
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Connecting people with healing plants through CSA shares, education, a medicinal plant nursery, and herbal preparations
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Rising Tide is an international, all-volunteer, grassroots network of groups and individuals who organize locally, promote community-based solutions to the climate crisis and take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change. Portland Risin
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For women experiencing homelessness, poverty, mental health or addiction issues, sex workers, and survivors of violence or abuse. **queer and trans friendly ***all ages and abilities welcome/ Questions, email: selfdefenseR2S@riseup.net
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We assist the citizens and neighborhood associations in creating communities that are livable, socially diverse, safe and vital. SE Uplift provides an organizational structure and forum to empower citizens to effectively resolve their issues.
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We are a networking, meetup, resource exchange for entrepreneurs. We do a fun, low stress, high value networking event every third Thursday. Hundreds of people have enjoyed the event. Everyone leaves smiling and with new insights and friends.
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SJAC is run by and for grassroots organizations – especially those of people of color and marginalized communities – as a place to gather, organize, and build culture.
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Social Justice Fund NW is a foundation working at the frontlines of social change. We build progressive power through donor activism.
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We clean, restore, educate and involve our community through volunteerism.
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Communication coaching and workshops that empower the fullest expression of our beauty, truth, and power.
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In 2012, Strike Debt (http://strikedebt.org/) came from a coalition of Occupy groups looking to build popular resistance to all forms of debt imposed on us by the banks. Debt keeps us isolated, ashamed, and afraid.
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list of joseph herbert's facebook calendar events
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The Household Employees League of Portland (The HELP) is an initiative of the Portland IWW that provides trainings, social events and organizing assistance to domestic workers including maids, nannies, cooks and babysitters.
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TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Oregon is the local chapter of a global not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.
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At our unique farm/forest location in SW Portland, TLC Farm brings people together to root into relationships with each other and the land, by sharing tools for community-based sustainability and social change, and tending resilient ecosystems.
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The Urban League of Portland Young Professionals (ULPDXYP) is a volunteer auxiliary of the Urban League of Portland that encourages Oregon young professionals to empower their communities and change lives through the Urban League Movement. We provide serv
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The Urban League of Portland Young Professionals (ULPDXYP) is a volunteer auxiliary of the Urban League of Portland that encourages Oregon young professionals to empower their communities and change lives through the Urban League Movement. We provide serv
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Veterans For Peace Chapter 72 is the Portland Metro chapter of Veterans For Peace, a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.
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Creating a vibrant future through entrepreneurship
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A private, independent, non-profit school practicing democracy in education.
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Supporting the belief that every voice matters. Empowering people to speak and sing with confidence and joy.
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Weaver’s Tale creates community for seniors in our neighborhoods through accessible organic gardening, educational workshops and community events.
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Leveraging the power of music for change.
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Willamette Riverkeeper is a non-profit organization, whose sole mission is to protect and restore the Willamette River. We believe that a river with good water quality and abundant natural habitat is a basic public right. The Willamette River belongs to a
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Workers World Party is a working-class party that fights against capitalism and for socialism with branches across the U.S.
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Providing experiential education and encounters with Pacific wild salmon to connect students and adults with nature and empower community engagement. Our Salmon Watch provides education in the classroom, field study and community service projects.
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We hold free creative writing workshops in hospitals, schools, prisons, senior centers and social service settings. We also offer workshops for new and seasoned writers who want to participate in our workshops while supporting the communities we serve.
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Youth Activism Summer Camp
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The YWCA of Greater Portland’s mission is to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
