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Does your organization need an AmeriCorps member?
You could have a full-time volunteer of your very own! Our Oregon State Service Corps and Clara Barton VISTA Corps programs are now accepting applications for the 2009-2010 year. Every […]
DISASTER ACTION TEAMS RESPOND
Monday, 26 Jan 09, saw three new 901 Cases: Two families (4 adults and 2 children) renting one house were displaced by a major house fire in SE Portland. Clients […]
Disaster Housing: A New Strategy
A while back, I did a post for Apartment Therapy about FEMA trailers and how people managed to pack their entire lives into pretty tiny spaces after Hurricane Katrina. The […]
Boosting Your Iron With Breakfast
Have you ever gone to give blood and been turned away because your iron’s a little low? It happens to the best of us, including many right here in our […]
Tonight: “Live To Tell: Who Survives?” On 20/20
You’re walking along the Oregon Coast, enjoying a fine day at the beach. But something strange catches your eye. It’s the water. It looks….well, frothy. And it keeps coming closer […]
Celebrate The Year Of The Ox With Us!
Are you totally stoked about the Year of the Ox? Good! Come celebrate with us at the Chinese New Year Cultural Fair tomorrow. To quote our volunteer manager, “I understand […]
Inauguration Day: We Rock For Barack
Jan. 20, 2009 — I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d probably be up the night before Inauguration Day, and was I ever right… Up at midnight, shower, shave, […]
See Us On Lovelab!
Check it out — Singles CPR is on the front page of the Portland Mercury’s Lovelab personals! IMHO, Lovelab is THE site to find cute PDX singles. You know, the […]
High Schooler Helps Identify How Hurricanes Intensify
A hurricane is not one, big, homogenous blob of swirling weather. It’s made of many individual bands of rain. So when they say the eye of the storm is growing, […]
Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the major (and sometimes small, but interesting) international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of nice little bite-sized […]