December Power Breakfast – Meet the New Faces of Oregon Economic Development
Sentinel Hotel 614 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97205This month's Power Breakfast will bring together our state’s new economic development powerhouses. They’ll share their vision for the future, as well as how they work collaboratively with the business community. Meet Our Speakers: Sophorn Cheang, Director, Business Oregon Monique Claiborne, President & CEO, Greater Portland Inc. Maria Isabel Ellis, Economic Equity Manager, Oregon Department…
Goalmakers National Conference
Virtual EventDecember 8th and 9th 2021 The Goalmakers annual conference is the premier event for global development practitioners, funders, companies, and partners on the West Coast. The past 18 months will be remembered as a period of massive global disruption and upheaval. The overlapping crises of the pandemic and social inequities have also created an opportunity to reset, re-imagine, and…
GlobalPDX Development Drinks
Shared Upon RegistrationDevelopment Drinks is a monthly gathering hosted by GlobalPDX, for people interested in world affairs and international development. This social event is a chance to connect with others and to learn about the work of GlobalPDX members. This networking event has been going on for years, and was the spark that lead to the…
Human Rights Day
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look…
To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives
OJMCHE“To Bear Witness” takes its name from the words of the late Nobel Prize-winning writer, activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who emphatically proclaimed, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” And so we present these profiles of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, genocides in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and unimaginable atrocities…