Volunteer & Community Links

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Other Links:

Office of Neighborhood Involvement... Get Involved! Popular City and County Sites

Foster Care & Kids

Annie E. Casey Foundation's Publications NRCYD
Foster Care Network DHS Independent Living
Powerhouse The Inn House Boys & Girls Aid Society of OR
Charity Navigator Friends of the Children Foster Care Month
Jim Casey Aging Out of FC PBS Resources FYI3.com
Oregon Resources OFPA Adopt Us Kids
Mockingbird Society Jumpstart Coalition Aging Out (Book)
    Last Chance (Kids Book)

If you are a Foster Parent or Foster Child and would like help getting your financial house in order I will give you personal debt management and investment coaching at a deeply discounted rate.  You must show proof that you are either a Foster Parent, a Foster Child, or a child who recently aged out of the system.  Please see the Money Site for financial links, including my contact information.

“To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affordable Housing/Housing Related

Reach CDC Community Energy About CDC's
Rose CDC Community Partners for Affordable Housing Habitat for Humanity
South East Up Lift CDC Development Assistance Fannie Mae and Communities
Peninsula CDC Portland Development Commission Housing Connections
  Bureau of Housing & CD  

Community Related

Metro Multnomah Co. Citizen Involvement Neighborhood Houses, Inc.
P:ear Creatively Mentoring Youth Clackamas County ReBuilding Center
Volunteer Center Boise Neighborhood - North Portland Outside In
Student Assistance - Aspire Hands on Portland Swift-WA
Portland Impact Central City Concern Get on a Committee or Board
At Risk Youth    

“NOTHING SPLENDID HAS EVER BEEN ACHIEVED EXCEPT BY THOSE WHO DARED BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING INSIDE THEM WAS SUPERIOR TO CIRCUMSTANCE.”    ‐ Bruce Barton (1886-1967)

Other/Multiple

Oregon Mentors Cascade Link Human Solutions
Volunteers of America - OR Scrap Dining For Districts
Multnomah County Score Business Counseling Kink FM 102 Change the World
Metropolitan Family Casa for Kids Oregon Zoo
Serendipity Center Start Making a Smart Reader Today Ride Connection
Youth Opportunity Center Worthwhile Magazine New Tithing
Charity Watch Jumpstart Coalition  

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