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The group was headquartered in Leadville, Colorado, but moved to Portland, Oregon in 1905, where it remained through the 1970s. [1] The Neighbors of Woodcraft merged into the Woodmen of the World in July 2001.
YWCA of Greater Portland is a charitable organization with a mission to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. The organization serves Multnomah County in four major areas of programming including youth services, domestic violence services, senior services, and social change.
During this period, the main issues of the Gray Panthers included forced retirement, ageist stereotypes, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and world peace.. There had been a mandatory forced retirement age at 65, based on the perception that older persons could not be productive members of a workplace after that age.
The Woodstock Community Center is a community center and former fire station built in 1928, located in the Woodstock neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] The building was converted to a community center when Portland Parks & Recreation acquired ownership in 1958. In 2003, community members prevented closure due to budget ...
The Timbers Army was founded in 2001 as the Cascade Rangers, [4] a reference to the Cascade Range of mountains in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.The group began with a group of eight people who decided to step up their support, and began congregating in section 107 (erroneously labeled on the stadium diagram to be behind the north goal) of the stadium then known as PGE Park to ...
2015 – Two homes are completed at the Community Center in Beaverton. Edwards Center Inc. establishes a partnership with Meals on Wheels and Washington County Disabled, Aging, and Veteran's Services to serve lunches to seniors and veterans providing new community connections for several groups that might otherwise become isolated. [7]
The Arlington Club is a private social club organized in 1867 by 35 business and banking leaders of Portland in the US state of Oregon.First called the Social Club and later renamed the Arlington Club, it offered its all-male, largely white membership consisting of banking and business leadership.
The City Club of Portland is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic organization based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1916, the organization had approximately 1500 members and a paid staff of 4 in 2013. The former Mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, served as executive director 2013 to 2015. [1] The current executive director is ...