MARCH NEWSLETTER:
- DMA Updates
- Clean-Up Day with YELP
- Local Business Highlight
- Resources
- DMA Community Hours
- Trimet Low Income Fare (LIF) Program
- Livelihood NW
- SE Works
- Events
- Portland Stand with Refugees and Immigrants
- Green Workforce Academy
- Hate, housing, and the Landscape of our City
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Clean-Up Day with YELP
The Division Midway Alliance Youth Environmental Leadership Program would like to invite you to the first Division Midway District Clean Up event!
We will start at SE Division & SE 117th and then spread out into the neighborhood.
Date: April 4th, 2020 
Time: 10 am - 12pm
Meeting location: Division Midway Alliance's Office:
11721 SE Division St
Portland, OR 97266
Use the link below to sign up to be part of this amazing event and help us make our community and waterways cleaner!
https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000PYlx1?layoutViewMode=tablet
Local Business Highlight
Casa Del Sol
14324 SE Division St.,
Portland, OR 97236
Santiago is a proud owner of Casa Del Sol and he thinks the storefront grant has been very helpful to improve the structure of his restaurant and enhance its visibility. He is one of the storefront grant recipients. His improvement project consisted of a new main pole sign with LED Lights and security light installed, a new box sign installed on the roof, fencing around the business and a garbage disposal area along with a gate. He invites you all to enjoy the delicious food his restaurant offers, He says, "As you may know, the weather is warming up, come and enjoy a margarita with us! And check out our website for our menus!"
portlandcasadelsol.com
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DMA Community Hours
Pacific Islander Community Hours - Wednesday and Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Karen/Burmese Community Hours - Wednesday and Thursday 9 am - 5 pm
Congolese Community Hours - Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Hispanic/Latino Community Hours - Tuesday and Thursday 10 am - 12 pm.
Trimet LIF Program
 We are excited to be a partner site for TriMet Low Income Fare Program. Visit our office to know more about the program. We can help you to identify your eligibility and assist you enroll in the program. We can serve in 7 different languages- Karen, Burmese, Spanish, Swahili, Nepali, Tongan, English. If you know anyone that can benefit from this program, please refer them to us. We are located on 11721 SE Division St
Language support is available:
English/Swahili: Monday-Friday 9 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 5 pm
Spanish/French Tuesday and Thursday 10 am - 12 pm
Karen/Burmese: Wednesday and Thursday 9 am - 5 pm
Tongan: Wednesday and Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
For more information about the LIF Program click here.Livelihood NW
 The Business Outreach Program has a new name, Livelihood NW! Livelihood NW still offers drop-in office hours at DMA 9 am to noon every Wednesday. For more information visit their website at livelihoodnw.org or email a business advisor.
New emails
The email has changed for the Business advisors:
SE Works (Workforce navigator DMA office hours)
 Are you looking for a job? Do you know someone who needs assistance in finding a job? Our Community liaisons here at DMA can help! Community liaisons provide information to our SE workforce navigator, Nathaly Pretell, and she gets in contact with the community member and the community liaisons. She has office hours at DMA 2nd and 4th Wednesday from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM. You can reach Nathaly Pretell by email @npretell@seworks.org or (971) 284-4635
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Portland Stand with Refugees and Immigrants
Looking for events to attend in March?
Please join Parks for New Portlanders - Portland Parks & Recreation as we come together to welcome, honor, heal, and celebrate. We welcome all community members, of all ages, especially refugee and immigrant families.
"Every welcome, Every generous step, Every moment of patience, Every action of solidarity, Every gesture of support, Every helping hand, Every time you take a stand, Every connection, means a sense of belonging for refugees & immigrants, and early integration into their new home!"
 
Green Workforce Jobs
5 weeks PAID training in Green Jobs for Native Americans and African Americans Ages 18-25!
Info Session:
Wednesday, March 4th,
4:00 PM at Ecotrust
721 NW 9th, Suite 900
Portland, OR 97209
For more info contact: Terresa Gaddy | tgaddy@ecotrust.org | 503-467-0789
Hate, Housing, and the Landscape of our City
Participants will understand and acknowledge our shared history; embrace our common values as neighbors and gain knowledge about our rights and responsibilities in housing. From racial exclusion laws in Oregon's constitution and racially exclusionary housing practices such as "redlining" and restrictive deed covenants to continuing involuntary economic displacement from neighborhoods, we must learn and acknowledge the history of racial discrimination, segregation and displacement to understand the different experiences of and disparate outcomes for our most vulnerable community members. Our history consciously intended to divide us by race and class. We must find our way forward to more open and inclusive communities in a way that unites us.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 6:30 pm
North Portland Neighborhood Services
2209 N. Schofield Street
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