Join Us Next Tuesday

Multilingual Community Connections
English, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese
 

Through speaking with over a dozen existing gatherings about this project, holding five community conversations in English, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese with our community partners, and having over 1,000 people participate in A Survey of Civic Life, Civic Life has been Gathering Perspectives and Adding Voices.

Join Us! Civic Life is hosting a multilingual community party for Portlanders to come together over great food, view the collected community input and see how this input is shaping the work of Civic Life.
 
Connect with the many communities that we are engaging, learn from one another and see how the intentional process of updating the city code that defines the work of our bureau is so much greater from gathering perspectives from a rich cross-section of Portlanders.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019
5:30 - 8:00 PM
Mercy Corps
45 SW Ankeny Street
Portland, OR 97204

Food and childcare will be provided. For language and ADA accommodations, please contact Sabrina Wilson at least 5 days before the event at Sabrina.Wilson@portlandoregon.gov.

Additional details and updates will be posted on the website as available here: portlandoregon.gov/civic/codechange 

Apply for a Cannabis Social Equity Grant

The City of Portland invites you to apply for the 2019 Cannabis Social Equity Grant! 

This is a restorative justice and community reinvestment grant opportunity funded by the City of Portland’s 3% local tax on retail cannabis sales.

In fiscal year 2018-19, $490,000 is available for Cannabis Social Equity grants.

Visit www.portlandoregon.gov/CannabisTax for more information.

Join us for one of our information sessions to learn more:

• April 26, 2019 from 10am-11am at East Portland Community Office (1017 NE 117^th Ave, Portland OR 97220)

• May 2, 2019 from 4pm-5pm at Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (4815 NE 7th Ave, Portland, OR 97211)

Registration for 2019 National Night Out in the City of Portland has opened! National Night Out has been celebrated across North America on the first Tuesday of August since 1983. When neighbors get to know each other, they create more connected and safer communities. Every year, more than 20,000 people in Portland participate. 

When is National Night Out?

• Official date of NNO: August 6th, 2019. Residents and businesses have an option to host parties any day of the week from August 2nd-11th. 

• Registration opens the April 22nd, 2019 at https://www.portlandoregon.gov/civic/64974 

• Registration closes July 23rd, 2019.

Learn more at Portland's National Night Out webpage: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/civic/55345