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Alliance Links Breaking News! Front Page A few words Arts & Culture Cartoons Community Calendar KBOO PORTAL Progressive Directory Poetry Previous Issues Locations Links Advertising Ad Rates	The Portland Alliance Portal to MRG http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/mrg Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:00pm until 8:00pm Come to MRG's Justice Social Happy Hour on March 12th! at Queen of Sheba Int'l Foods 2413 NE M L King Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97212-3730 Enjoy good conversation and a drink with other progressive folks! This month's special guest is Jo Ann Hardesty, one of Portland's leading activists for police accountability. Jo Ann serves on the AMA Coalition for Justice & Police Reform Steering Committee and is a Principal at Consult Hardesty Services. You're probably reading a lot about Portland's Police Bureau these days. Do you want to know more about how community members are organizing to make our police more accountable? Come hear Jo Ann's perspective on what's going on, what we can do to build safety and accountability, and share your thoughts. Stop by for some light appetizers and great conversation. We'll be at Queen of Sheba Restaurant, 2413 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. in Portland. This event is free, wheelchair accessible and family-friendly. No host bar. Queen of Sheba Int'l Foods 2413 NE M L King Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97212-3730 View Map · Get Directions About The McKenzie River Gathering Foundation McKenzie River Gathering Foundation has given out over $12 million in grants since 1976. MRG Foundation pools money from Oregon’s progressive community and distributes it back to grassroots groups working on a wide range of social change issues. MRG funding supports the most strategic work unfolding at the local level to address globalization, poverty, war, racism and environmental destruction. We currently provide well over half a million dollars in funding to progressive organizations a year. MRG Foundation’s grassroots grantmaking is unique. We recruit our board and grantmaking committee members from the communities we serve throughout Oregon. With the direct knowledge these grantmakers bring, we are able to respond to new ideas and fresh thinking. MRG Foundation makes grants that other foundations may view as “risky” but are often funding years later. Using our grassroots grantmaking process, we have been an early funder on key issues including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, immigration, and globalization. Quick Facts about MRG: MRG Foundation has given away more than $12 million in grants since 1976 We have over $7 million in assets and an annual budget of over $1 million We make over 50 grants per year across the state of Oregon.
Navigation:	Navigation: FrontPage / Activism / Interactive Calendar / Donate / Flyer / YouTube / Poster / Subscribe / Place Ad / Ad Rates / Online Ads / Advertising / Twitter / News! / Previous Issues / Blog/ Myspace / Facebook1 / Facebook2 Features: Active Community / A Few Words /Arts & Culture / Breaking News / Jobs / / Labor History / Music / NewsBytes / Progressive Directory / Cartoons / Community Calendar / Letters / Poetry / Viewpoints & Commentary Columns: Beeman, Brown, Engelhardt / Kucinich / Munk / Myers / William Reed / Schwebke / Norman Solomon / Vorpahl / Wittner Partners: AFD / AMA / Bread&Roses / CAUSA/ CLG/ Common Dreams / DIA / FSP /ISO / Jobs w\ Justice / KBOO / Labor Radio / LGBTQ / MRG / Milagro / Mosaic / Move-On / Occupy / OEA / Occupy PDX / Peace House / The 99% / Peace worker / PCASC / PPRC / Right 2 Dream Too / Street Roots / Skanner / The Nation / TruthOut / Urban League / VFP / Voz / Topics: A-F AIPAC / Civil Rights / Coal / Death Penalty / Education / Election 2012 / Fair Trade / F-29 / Environment / Foreclosure / Topics: G-R Health / Homeless / J-Street / Middle East / Occupy Blog / Peace / Persian / Police / Post Office Topics: S-Z STRIKE! / Tri-Met / Union / VDay / War & Peace / Women / Writing / WritingResource Coming Soon: Service Directory / Editing / Flyers / Ground View / Flying Focus / Literacy / Rashad Sanctuary Mvmt Oregon Dear ONSM friends, Please remember to purchase your tickets for our five year anniversary celebration dinner! You can send a check to our office at: ONSM 2710 NE 14th Ave Portland, OR 97212 Or click on the "donate" button on our website at www.oregonsanctuary.org and indicate in the comments section that you are purchasing a dinner ticket. Tickets are $25. We can't wait to have you celebrate with us! Beth March 13, 2012 3:09pm Sanctuary Mvmt Oregon Please register for our celebration dinner through our website at http://www.oregonsanctuary.org/?cat=14. We want to make sure that we have a seat for you! Beth The Portland Alliance: P.O. Box 14162 / Portland, OR 97293-0162 Phone Number: (503) 327-8377 Fax (503) 327-8949 Cell (for emergencies) 503-697-1670 Production office: 5926 N. Albina Ave. / Portland, Oregon / 97217-2210 (Archives on S.E. Alder.) For questions, comments, or suggestions for this site, please contact editor@theportlandalliance.org or ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com © 1981-2012 NAAME Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media & Education, dba The Portland Alliance: All Rights Reserved. A 501C3 Oregon Non-profit Corporation for Public Benefit Support local media: The Asian Reporter \| Kboo \| The Oregon Peaceworker \| Portland.Indymedia.org \| The Skanner

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

6:00pm until 8:00pm
Come to MRG's Justice Social Happy Hour on March 12th!

at Queen of Sheba Int'l Foods
2413 NE M L King Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97212-3730
Enjoy good conversation and a drink with other
progressive folks!

This month's special guest is Jo Ann Hardesty, one of Portland's leading activists for police accountability. Jo Ann serves on the AMA Coalition for Justice & Police Reform Steering Committee and is a Principal at Consult Hardesty Services.

You're probably reading a lot about Portland's Police Bureau these days. Do you want to know more about how community members are organizing to make our police more accountable? Come hear Jo Ann's perspective on what's going on, what we can do to build safety and accountability, and share your thoughts.

Stop by for some light appetizers and great conversation. We'll be at Queen of Sheba Restaurant, 2413 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. in Portland.

This event is free, wheelchair accessible and family-friendly. No host bar.

Queen of Sheba Int'l Foods
2413 NE M L King Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97212-3730

View Map · Get Directions

About The McKenzie River Gathering Foundation

McKenzie River Gathering Foundation has given out over $12 million in grants since 1976. MRG Foundation pools money from Oregon’s progressive community and distributes it back to grassroots groups working on a wide range of social change issues.

MRG funding supports the most strategic work unfolding at the local level to address globalization, poverty, war, racism and environmental destruction. We currently provide well over half a million dollars in funding to progressive organizations a year.

MRG Foundation’s grassroots grantmaking is unique. We recruit our board and grantmaking committee members from the communities we serve throughout Oregon. With the direct knowledge these grantmakers bring, we are able to respond to new ideas and fresh thinking. MRG Foundation makes grants that other foundations may view as “risky” but are often funding years later.

Using our grassroots grantmaking process, we have been an early funder on key issues including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, immigration, and globalization.

Quick Facts about MRG:

MRG Foundation has given away more than $12 million in grants since 1976
We have over $7 million in assets and an annual budget of over $1 million
We make over 50 grants per year across the state of Oregon.

Navigation:

Navigation: FrontPage / Activism / Interactive Calendar / Donate / Flyer / YouTube / Poster / Subscribe / Place Ad / Ad Rates /
Online Ads / Advertising / Twitter / News! / Previous Issues / Blog/ Myspace / Facebook1 / Facebook2
Features: Active Community / A Few Words /Arts & Culture / Breaking News / Jobs / / Labor History / Music / NewsBytes /
Progressive Directory / Cartoons / Community Calendar / Letters / Poetry / Viewpoints & Commentary
Columns: Beeman, Brown, Engelhardt / Kucinich / Munk / Myers / William Reed / Schwebke / Norman Solomon / Vorpahl / Wittner
Partners: AFD / AMA / Bread&Roses / CAUSA/ CLG/ Common Dreams / DIA / FSP /ISO / Jobs w\ Justice / KBOO / Labor Radio / LGBTQ / MRG / Milagro / Mosaic / Move-On / Occupy / OEA / Occupy PDX / Peace House / The 99% / Peace worker / PCASC / PPRC / Right 2 Dream Too / Street Roots / Skanner / The Nation / TruthOut / Urban League / VFP / Voz /
Topics: A-F AIPAC / Civil Rights / Coal / Death Penalty / Education / Election 2012 / Fair Trade / F-29 / Environment / Foreclosure /
Topics: G-R Health / Homeless / J-Street / Middle East / Occupy Blog / Peace / Persian / Police / Post Office
Topics: S-Z STRIKE! / Tri-Met / Union / VDay / War & Peace / Women / Writing / WritingResource
Coming Soon: Service Directory / Editing / Flyers / Ground View / Flying Focus / Literacy / Rashad

Sanctuary Mvmt Oregon

Dear ONSM friends,

Please remember to purchase your tickets for our five year anniversary celebration dinner!

You can send a check to our office at:

ONSM
2710 NE 14th Ave
Portland, OR 97212

Or click on the "donate" button on our website at www.oregonsanctuary.org and indicate in the comments section that you are purchasing a dinner ticket.

Tickets are $25.

We can't wait to have you celebrate with us!

Beth
March 13, 2012
3:09pm

Sanctuary Mvmt Oregon

Please register for our celebration dinner through our website at http://www.oregonsanctuary.org/?cat=14. We want to make sure that we have a seat for you!

Beth

The Portland Alliance: P.O. Box 14162 / Portland, OR 97293-0162
Phone Number: (503) 327-8377 Fax (503) 327-8949
Cell (for emergencies) 503-697-1670
Production office: 5926 N. Albina Ave. / Portland, Oregon / 97217-2210 (Archives on S.E. Alder.)
For questions, comments, or suggestions for this site, please contact editor@theportlandalliance.org or ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com
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