Institute for Policy Research and Engagement
The Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Program was founded in 1994 as a way to bring service-learning to Oregon and to offer the skills, experience, and idealism of University of Oregon students to many of Oregon’s depressed rural communities. Continue reading “RARE AmeriCorps Turns Twenty!”
Representatives of a wide range of local, state and federal government agencies, private organizations and local businesses and residents gathered at the Jim Riggs Community Center Monday, March 10, to send the South Santiam Community Forest project forward to its next Continue reading “Signing Marks New Stage for Community Forest”
Experts from across the country will converge in Milton-Freewater next week to help focus local revitalization efforts.
The Milton-Freewater Downtown Alliance said Tuesday it is working with Oregon Main Street Continue reading “Gathering puts focus on revitalization in Milton-Freewater”
Speaking in Chinuk wawa, the native language of the Grand Ronde tribe, Michael Karnosh said Monday afternoon that “his heart was very happy to be standing here today.”
Karnosh was one of several dozen stakeholders who formalized their commitment to the South Continue reading “South Santiam Community Forest Corridor members formalize land deal”
Milton-Freewater Rotary Club President-Elect Shane Abell told fellow members about the President-Elect Training Session he attended in Seattle Feb. 14-16.
About 700 Rotarians from nine Rotary districts were on hand to hear speakers on a variety of Continue reading “Milton-Freeewater Rotary Club hears from city’s Downtown Alliance director”
If you’re a young person interested in the outdoors, or someone who works with kids, or in outdoor recreation, Laura Goodrich wants to hear from you.
Goodrich, who is serving as on-the-ground director of Sweet Home All Lands Collaborative Continue reading “Community Forest Planner Holding Meeting to Talk About Youth, Outdoors”
Do you care about the way food is grown, distributed and consumed in western Washington County? A meeting early next month in Forest Grove is just for you.
Members of the Dairy Creek Community Food Web and representatives from the Oregon Food Continue reading “FEAST invites citizen comment on local food”
City leaders are brainstorming how best to push downtown Coos Bay to the next level.
Downtown business owners and city officials filled Black Market Gourmet Thursday night for Coos Bay Downtown Association’s annual meeting, this year dubbed “Celebrate Downtown.” Continue reading “Downtown ‘has to thrive’”
The Eastern Oregon Beer Festival will soon be coming to La Grande.
That was the name decided by event organizers at a meeting Thursday night.
If Sauvie Island’s future matters to you, here’s your chance to shape it.
County planners who are working to update the island’s outdated land use and transportation plans want to know what “rural” means to you and the other million-plus people who use the Continue reading “Sauvie Island rural plan update: Multnomah County survey asks participants to define ‘rural’”