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...
Clean Start PDX Off To A Great Start
by Mischa Webley, NECN Staff Writer
On a Monday morning, J.P. King starts up the engine to his pick-up truck and heads across the river from Old Town to the Inner Eastside. As the lead...
Non-Profits Bring Music to the Kids
By Mischa S. Webley, NECN Staff Writer
The bell strikes at 2:30 PM and the hallways of Rosa Parks Elementary fill with kids from all directions. Some are going home, others to play sports, and...
Non-Profit Spotlight: Do Good Multnomah
By Mischa Webley, NECN Staff Writer
When you hear about a young entrepreneur who moves to a new city, puts everything on the line and bootstraps their business from a makeshift office in a basement,...