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 […]

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 […]

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Welcome Rochelle Wasula

Rochelle joins Neighborhood Partnerships with more than 15 years of experience in operations and project management and most recently came to us from Mercy Corps Northwest. Her talents include system and vendor coordination, improving processes and project and office management.

Exciting News! Our Next Executive Director

Joel Madsen, Board Chair, Neighborhood Partnerships Neighborhood Partnerships is excited to announce that Carlos Garcia will become executive director, effective September 8.  Carlos has served as NP’s Director of Economic Opportunity since 2018.  In addition to overseeing the Oregon IDA initiative, he works with local, regional, and national partners to support movements and create policies […]

From the Director – November 2019

Neighborhood Partnerships has had an intentional focus for the past two years on thinking about how we as an organization can help to create a more equitable Oregon, one in which the bounty of our state is shared by all who live here. As a team of people who focus on meeting statewide housing needs […]