News From SE Uplift!

SE Uplift has received 48 grant applications requesting a total of $230,229 by the November 1st deadline. This year's Neighborhood Small Grants Program has $46,058 in available funds. The 5-person volunteer selection committee will be reviewing each application and making recommendations for funding as group by mid- December. The committee's recommendations will then be presented to the SE Uplift Board of Directors for approval on Monday, January 2, 2012. All applicants will be notified of final decisions by January 9 along with an announcement of the winners on our website and in local media. We're pleased to have received so many new and exciting proposals this year!

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Neighborhood News

wikman

SE Uplift is excited to be a supporting partner in the effort to create a new public space in the Foster-Powell neighborhood. The Wikman Building, located at 4420 SE 64th Avenue, was once the Arleta library but is now vacant. Multnomah County currently owns this beautiful building but it has been deemed a surplus property. A coalition of community organizations is collaborating to acquire the Wikman Building and restore it for community use. The partners envision a combination of entrepreneurial and community-building activities such as a multi-cultural community center, grocery co-op, farmers market, business incubator, commercial kitchen and internet café, which would also offer multi-purpose rooms for meetings, classes and events.

Please join us in supporting this effort! Here are some ways you can help:

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

1. Sign up for the list serve; email nick@rosecdc.org.

2. Tell your friends and neighbors.

3. Contact Nick Sauvie at ROSE Community Development with your questions and

comments: 503 788.8052 x16 or nick@rosecdc.org.

Feast for Southeast is a grassroots Thanksgiving event, for the community BY the community. It is planned by a group of neighbors from all over Southeast Portland and focused on the neighborhoods encompassing Mt. Scott/Arleta, Woodstock, Brentwood/Darlington and Foster/Powell. The group is led by Roberto Selva and strongly supported by Lifehouse Church, various SE Portand Neighborhood Associations, local nonprofits and businesses, and other sponsors as well as individual donors and volunteers.

Feast for Southeast will take place at Mt. Scott Community Center on Thanksgiving day - from 2pm to 4pm. Whether individuals are interested in attending, volunteering, or both - it is a wonderful opportunity to share a great meal with some neighbors, talk about what you're thankful for in 2011, and what you'd like to be thankful for in 2012.

Land Use and Sustainability

The Portland Plan is now Available- SE Uplift encourages you to take a look at the Portland Plan and attend the hearings occuring during the month of November. You can find both the summary and full-length documents along with the hearings schedule here.

In order to assist your review of the documents, SE Uplift has prepared a "cheat-sheet" pointing out the sections of the Portland Plan we think our coalition neighborhoods will be particularly interested in. If you have questions or concerns about the Portland Plan, please feel free to contact Leah Dawkins 503 232.0010 x314.

It's time! The low-limbed trees are waiting. The underground moles are tunneling away from the surface. The dirt is piled and ready for exploration. We are armed with spoons and magnifying lenses, bug boxes and collection bags. We have curious minds, imaginative ideas and swift-moving feet. We are not stopped by wind, rain, clouds, or shade. We are Nuts About Nature!!!

City Nature's "Nuts About Nature" programs have become a popular way for young children to enjoy the nature of Portland's Parks. Offering programs since April 2008, we have found the perfect mix of play, imagination, science, stories, art and songs to keep every child engaged. Our experienced Environmental Education Teachers are highly trained and finely tuned to the developmental level of the young child. Plus, we like to sing silly songs, are not afraid to teach about local plants and animals using puppets & real clipboards, and we can turn just about any ecological concept into a tag game.

Learn more about this program!

bring your bag

Kicking the plastic bag habit: practice makes perfect Learning something new takes practice, time and patience. So does forming a new habit, like remembering to bring a reusable bag to the grocery store.

In October, the City of Portland enacted a landmark restriction on the use of single-use plastic bags at most grocery stores and large retail stores. These are the bags that many shoppers received in grocery stores and pharmacies, and they also can cause environmental problems, including at recycling facilities and littering Oregon rivers and the Pacific Ocean.

Fix It Fair The City of Portland's 25th annual Fix-It Fair season will kick off in November. The first Fair of the season will be:

Fix-It Fairs are free events where you can learn simple and effective ways to save money at home and stay healthy this winter and beyond. Featuring exhibits from numerous community partners, these events also include an extensive schedule of workshops held throughout the day. Experts will be available to talk with you about water and energy savings, home and personal health, food and nutrition, community resources, recycling and yard care, lead testing, bike tune-ups and more! Free professional childcare and lunch is provided at all Fairs.

To find out more information about scheduled workshops, view the Fix-It Fair brochure.

The Growers Alliance is a new cooperative marketing effort designed to help small farmers access direct markets.

INFORMATION SESSION FOR INTERESTED GROWERS
When: Monday, November 14th at 7 pm
Where: Lucky Lab Tap Room (1700 N Killingsworth)

Who: Vegetable and fruit growers in the Portland area who would like to gain access to direct produce markets. We are a group of small growers focused on helping beginning growers break into direct markets.

What: We will give an overview of the goals of the Alliance, our current market outlets and what crops we're looking for. We are also interested in hearing input from interested farmers--do you have any exciting ideas to bring to the Alliance?

FOT Friends of Trees Announces Second Annual Portland Leaf Harvest
Nonprofit promotes the benefits of the community coming together for a shared goal.

The Portland Leaf Harvest kicks off November 10, when more than 50 volunteers from Friends of Trees and local Home Depot stores will collect and bag leaves from the yards of homebound seniors served by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Loaves & Fishes Center. This is the second year that Friends of Trees, Loaves & Fishes, and Home Depot have partnered up on the project, which is considered a model for other community groups to follow.

Every community group that signs up for the Portland Leaf Harvest will receive a packet from Friends of Trees that includes yard debris bags and waivers for the city's three leaf depots. However, West cautions that the groups will not be matched up with residents. "We are providing knowledge, tips and waivers for the event, but it is up to the organization to locate those residents who might need the service." West noted that this is an ideal project for organizations like church groups, who are familiar with members of their congregation.

For more information, visit www.FriendsofTrees.org or www.PortlandLeafHarvest.com.

The Tabor Farmers Market runs every Saturday from 10am to 2pm, and is located at Café au Play (5633 SE Division Street). For more information, or to volunteer with the market, please contact the market manager Mitchell Frister at mitchellandrewfrister@gmail.com

For current event listings visit facebook.com/cafeauplay

Community Resources

On-the-Move Community Integration to Offer Reading Classes for Adults with Disabilities

Southeast-based nonprofit organization, On-the-Move Community Integration, has received a grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust to help provide reading classes to adults with disabilities.

Numerous adults with disabilities who currently participate with On-the-Move have requested reading instruction, and On-the-Move is pleased to offer this much-needed functional reading skills program. The classes are open to all adults with special needs in our community. Overall, the reading skills program fills a critical void in the Portland Metropolitan Area, as most adults with special needs are proven to have competency levels much lower than the potential they possess. On-the-Move, founded in 2007, was created for education and charitable purposes to combat the social isolation experienced by adults with disabilities. For information about the program, please contact by email or call 503 287.0346.

Home Energy IQ: Discover easy ways to save energy at home at free workshops in Portland. Discover easy wasys to save energy at home at free workshops brought to you by the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability

and Energy Trust of Oregon

Pre-register at www.energytrust.org/events or call 1 (866) 368-7878.

Tuesday, October 25 | 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Sumner Fire Station #12, 8645 NE Sandy Boulevard

Saturday, October 29 | 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Warehouse / Portland Green Parenting, 3434 SE Milwaukie

Thursday, November 3 | 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Mt. Scott Community Center, 5530 SE 72nd Avenue

Fine Wine and Feather Boas is an opportunity to celebrate you, our supporters, and share with you all of the new and exciting adventures we've had in the past year.

Thank you for making this our most beneficial fundraiser ever, as our programs expand and even more young women become Betties!

Date & Time: November 12th, 2011, @ 7 p.m.

Location: Ecotrust Building (2nd floor), 721 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Entrance Donation: $30 per person

Attire: A magnificent and creative combination of black tie dress and outdoor gear:

gowns and gaiters, tuxedos and toeclips... And if you're stumped, harnesses, helmets and headlamps heat up any outfit!

Auction: Thanks to Greater Giving, we will be able to accept credit cards at the event and checking out will be smooth and efficient! We will also gladly accept checks or cash. For more information or to RSVP.

Equal Opportunity Day
Awards Dinner
Thursday, November 17, 2011,

6:00-9:00 P.M.

Oregon Convention Center,

Click Here to Register

$250 per person, $2,500 for a table of ten

Support our neighbors abroad and send a care package to active military personnel for the holidays.
For detailed information what is needed or wanted please check out the following website: www. soldierpackages.org. This sight offers opportunities to create a smile, make a dark moment brighter and hopefully sends a ray of hope and assurance that we are still and often thinking of our military men and women.

The Changing Face of Oregon: Health-Education-Economic Disparity

Join Dr. Terryl Ross

Thursday, November 17, 2011

6:30-8:30 PM

Central Northeast Neighbors Community Room, 4415 NE 87th Ave.

This interactive workshop will examine the intersection of health, education and economic disparity in Oregon. Specifically, we will discuss how key trends and changing demographics are affecting Portland at the neighborhood level. The second half of this workshop will be a facilitated discussion about how to move into community action in response to these changes.

This free workshop is a follow-up to a previous presentation that addressed the 2010 census. Attendance to the first presentation is not required to attend this one! Space is limited, please RSVP to Sandra Lefrancois at Central Northeast Neighbors (CNN) 503 823-2780.

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 - 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Portland Building, Room C, 2nd floor, 1120 SW 5th Ave

Commissioner Fritz is inviting you to participate in a Community

Forum regarding the upcoming 2012 State of Oregon Legislative

Session. This event is designed to inform the community about the

City's process for developing the legislative agenda, provide an

overview of the upcoming 2012 legislative session and have the

opportunity for community members to share the issues that their

neighborhood and communities are facing with the Commissioner. Please RSVP to Max Bernstein 503 823-3992 - For more information, visit: www.portlandonline.com/oni/townhall

A Special Holiday Art Exhibit and Sale