Summer is coming for the Woodlawn Farmers Market
It's been a long winter but the Woodlawn Farmers Market is getting ready for the summer with a food assistance fundraiser, plans for live music performance, new vendors and more.
Harvey Rice Heritage Housing Development Honors Beloved Sabin Activist
Harvey Rice Heritage is bringing two new affordable housing complexes to inner Northeast Portland, named after renowned artists. This is the Isaka Shamshud-Din Development.
Rachelle Dixon: Building a stable base for permanent housing
By Lisa Loving, NE Coalition
Rachelle Dixon is a visionary who gets things done: Hot meal programs, community gardening, political campaigns and more. The pandemic shut down some of...
Afro Contemporary Art Class Continues with Social Distancing
The Afro Contemporary Art Class (ACAC) at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School began as an after school initiative that interweaves programming into and between public schools to cultivate confidence, expand...
Portland Food Project Brings Food to the Hungry
By Karen Beck
We hear it on the news. We talk about it at work. Portlanders are concerned about the housing crisis and the rising number of people who regularly struggle to make ends meet....
Gardening For Food Justice
By Jolie Donohue
With mounting tuitions and the escalating cost of living expenses, today’s community college student is struggling to survive and is often saddled with excessive student loan debt after graduation. At Portland Community...
Meals on Wheels Turns 50
By Mischa Webley, NECN Staff Writer
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but at the Meals on Wheels Center on NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, lunches are dished out, free...
Teaching Outside the Box: Alliance High School
By Mischa Webley, NECN Staff Writer
The first sign that this isn’t your average urban high school is the curriculum. There’s a class called Manhood, another called Skateboard Manufacturing. There’s Mindfulness, Leadership, a class on...
Nonprofit Spotlight: Repair PDX
By Mischa S. Webley, NECN Staff Writer
PDX Repair received fiscal sponsorship from NECN in 2017. We interviewed its founder, Lauren Gross, shortly after.
Hey Neighbor (HN): Tell us about your organization.
Lauren Gross (LG): Our mission...
Nonprofit Spotlight: BARK
by Courtney Rae, Bark Community Organizer
Oregon’s forests foster an enormous sense of pride for our communities, but what goes on behind the “beauty strips” surrounding popular recreation sites and roads is purposefully misrepresented by...