• DMA Program Updates
  • Division Midway Alliance Participates in May Day
  • Low-Income Fare
  • Festival of Nations Planning Committee
  • Karen English Classes
  • Karen Gardening Workshop
• Resources
  • DMA Community Hours
  • Storefront Grant
  • SE Works
  • BOP
• Events
  • Proud Ground at Rosewood
  • Community Investment Trust
  • Midway Business Association Monthly Meeting
  • Business Outreach Program Workshop: The Life of a Lease from Negotiation to Renewal
  • Business Outreach Program Workshop:  What You Need to Know Before You Sell Your Business

Lute, DMA's Business and Asian Pacific Community Liaison, visited Oregon's Capital to support bills that will affect refugees and immigrants and to participate in May Day. Lute was able to meet state representatives and governor, Kate Brown. Governor Kate Brown signed the proclamation for Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

One of the bills discussed with state representatives was The Drivers License for All Bill, a bill that eliminates the requirement that a person provides proof of legal presence before the Department of Transportation issues non-commercial driver license, driver permit or identification card. 

TriMet Low Income Fare Partner

Festival of Nations Planning Committee 2019

DMA is looking for active members to join our Festival of Nations Planning Committee! For more information feel free to send an email with the subject: FoN Planning Committee to info@divisionmidway.org

Karen English Workshop

Lwe, our Karen Community Liaison, has recently started teaching basic English to her Karen community. Lwe has been helping her community learn basic sentence structures and answering questions in full sentences. Lwe’s community members will apply the skills they learn through the English workshop to pass the verbal portion of US Citizen interview.

Karen Gardening Workshop

The Karen Gardening Workshop visited the Oregon Food Bank. The group saw different plants that will be planted in their plot of land. They also received composite to use in for their garden. They toured the garden space and learned about different plants and learn how to transplant plants to different locations.

DMA Community Hours
Community Support hours for May - June 2019
Pacific Islander Community hours - Thursday  11 am - 4 pm
Burmese/Karen Community hours - Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Latino/Hispanic Community hours - Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm

SE Works

Are you looking for a job? Do you know someone who needs assistance in finding a job? At DMA our Community liaisons can help. Community liaisons provide information to our SE works coordinator, Nathaly Parrell, and she gets in contact with the community member and the community liaisons. If you need translation in Karen, Burmese, Tongan, and Spanish let a Community liaison know, and we can help!





Business Outreach Program
The BOP offers open office hours every Wednesday from 9 am - 12 pm. If you have an existing business or want to start a business, the BOP Business Advisors can answer questions during open office hours. Check the events section for upcoming training/workshop.
 

Proud Ground
May 7 - 5:30-6:30 pm @ Rosewood

Info session for Proud Ground, a nonprofit that makes first-time homeownership accessible and affordable to middle- and low-income folks in Portland will be at Rosewood Initiative, 16126 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97233. See the flyer for more information.