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Dec 21, 2009
Ainsworth Elementary School's Holiday Home Tour gives everyone the opportunity to be the nosy neighbor.
Dec 15, 2009
A group of local photographers known collectively as PhotoForce turn their lenses toward Oregon's fight against hunger in this _Portland Monthly_ photo essay.
Nov 24, 2009
Incight and DePaul Industries held their first joint fundraising event, the Country Harvest Celebration, on Tuesday, October 27, at the Oregon Convention Center, and netted a record-breaking...
Nov 23, 2009
It was 2001, and the troubled organization—an advocacy group for the homeless that runs a café serving low-cost nutritional meals—was losing $100,000 each year. To save Sisters, Beemer spent hours...
Nov 23, 2009
Only 34 percent of Native American students in Portland Public Schools graduate within four years. It’s a number that Matt Morton—board chair for the Native American Youth and Family Center, or...
Nov 23, 2009
Kreeg Peeples is ashamed to admit that years ago, when his son was collecting canned food for needy families, he wondered why the recipients didn’t just go get a job. “I didn’t understand then that...
Nov 23, 2009
For 26 years, the group, armed with rubber boots and waders, has removed trash and invasive species from our rivers’ edges, helped redirect stream flows to make waterways more fish-friendly, and...
Nov 23, 2009
The nonprofit organization, Elders in Action, works to provide seniors with a better quality of life. Sometimes that’s as simple as offering a sympathetic ear, and sometimes it means tackling...
Oct 29, 2009
The aroma of patchouli filled the sari bedecked Melody Ballroom to set the mood for Living Yoga’s Fourth Annual Gala, held October 23. A crowd of colorfully dressed yogis and yogainis traded their...
Oct 20, 2009
In 2004, the Eglands established Abby’s Closet, an organization that collects new and gently used prom dresses and then gives them to students who may not be able to afford their own. In April,...
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