Southeast Uplift's Community Partnerships

Southeast Uplift strives to develop healthy and diverse partnerships with our community. Through our fiscal sponsorship we assist groups with financial support, non-profit status and bookkeeping.

Sunnyside Swap Shop

Helping Sunnyside residents build community with each other by providing an ongoing space for residents to exchange goods and services.

Sunnyside Community Renovation Project

To see funds and in-kinds donations to renovate the areas of church property, to bring in a sliding scale daycare and retail space, and to serve meals and proved shelter to the disadvantaged.

Give a $Buck for Buckman Campaign

Campaign to raise money for three purposes: 1. Create conservation/or historic preservation for the Buckman neighborhood. 2. Educate citizens, city governments and agencies about the value of old neighborhoods. 3. Create a fund for legal expenses associated with development issues.

Society for Haitian Arts and Culture

Create computer lab, secure a van to transport members to events, purchase musical instruments and funding to pay members to give music lessons, train members to sew and crochet, secure a building for community resource center with computer lab and meeting hall and hold a May 18th Haitian Flag Day event.

Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood Repair Project

Working to transform Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood by putting in a triangle-shaped traffic median, a low cement wall, art elements, plant and gravel to create a welcoming space for pedestrians. Long-term plans include the installation of history placard (site was part of Portland's famous trolley system). kids' art, or even a partial street closure, which could extend the building site even further. Read more about their project.

Friends of the Woodstock Community Center

In response to possible closure of the community center in the 2004-2005 budget season, the Friends work to keep the Woodstock Community Center open by helping it run cost-neutral. By volunteering time and effort for regular landscaping maintenance and general house-keeping, Portland Parks and Recreation is able to continue offering classes. The Friends also support the Community Center through outreach and fundraising through awareness-raising events held at the Community Center.

Alliance of Portland Neighborhood Businesses Association

The APNBA is an allliance of the 30+ business district associations (BDAs) in Portland, Oregon. BDA members are the merchants, property owners, and employees in the commercial districts surrounding the downtown. BDAs support and promote their commercial area.

A strong, active business district association is part of the glue that holds neighborhoods together, giving them the distinctive identities that characterize Portland. Many of them serve the functions of a small town, offering the services and providing space for public interaction and community celebration. The well-organized business district association can be the business voice of this "micro-village" to the surrounding municipalities. Visit their website.

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