RE:Cap of RE:Conference 2024

Over 250 advocates, practitioners, and community members gathered in Salem on October 15-16 for RE:Conference 2024, exploring how renewal through reclamation can transform Oregon’s housing and economic landscape.

Welcome Roberta Phillip-Robbins

Roberta is Neighborhood Partnership’s new Organizational Director. Roberta is excited to share with the NP community her years of experience as a facilitator, training as an advocate, and orientation as a policy wonk. After the pandemic, she joined Engage to Change (ETC) to support state agencies, local government, not-for-profit organizations, and private firms as they […]

Neighborhood Partnerships Signs Our First Union Contract

On June 21, Neighborhood Partnerships and ILWU Local 5 signed the organization’s first ever labor contract! This milestone is the result of principled, collaborative negotiations by NP’s employees – both workers and management – over the course of a year. This work followed NP’s voluntary recognition of the staff union in spring 2023. The new […]

Celebrating Two Amazing Trainings

Financial Coaching for Prosperity We are excited to announce that a cohort of 33 staff that work with IDA savers (from 24 different IDA Provider organizations) just completed our first 28-hour Financial Coaching for Prosperity Training Series! This training, which spanned 2 months, both in person and virtual, provided staff from across the Initiative comprehensive […]

Announcing $11.5 million in IDA Funding

Espanol Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), in partnership with Neighborhood Partnerships (NP), announce $11.5 million in funding to support the Individual Development Account Initiative statewide. An Individual Development Account (IDA) is a matched savings account, where the money participants save is multiplied up to five times by the program. As Oregonians face inflation and […]