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Meet Em, NP’s Evaluation Assistant
What do you do at NP? I assist with the administration of the Oregon IDA participant feedback survey. What area of expertise and interest do you have? While I believe that working towards the eradication of inequity for all people should be a top public priority, my primary interest is in affecting change in the field of youth […]
2015 RE:Conference Early Bird Discount Tickets Are Now Available
Join us again this year at the Salem Convention Center on Oct. 29 and 30. Last year 93% of participants said it was one of the best conferences they attended all year. Oct 29 is Savings and Asset Building Day where you’ll get innovative ideas about ways to catalyze healthy financial futures for our communities […]
You Can Go Home Again
By Jill Winsor On May 13th’s Housing Opportunity Day we saw members concerned about housing needs in communities across the state—from Eugene to The Dalles—people who are housed and unhoused, and one extra special person, my mom. My mom, Lindsay, grew up in Milton-Freewater, a tiny town in the northeastern corner of Oregon. Below is […]
How Philanthropy is Shifting Opportunity for Oregonians with Low Incomes
By Janet Byrd, Executive Director In 2006, the New York City Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) began to test a number of pretty radical concepts to “educate, empower, and protect individuals and families with low incomes.” This work was sparked by Mayor Bloomberg, financed in its early years by him personally, and by philanthropic and corporate […]