Fwd: URGENT ALERT: Tell the Mayor to Increase Funding for District Coalition Offices
Kerns Neighborhood Association
From: Nanci Champlin <Na...@seuplift.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Subject: URGENT ALERT: Tell the Mayor to Increase Funding for District Coalition Offices
To: Nanci Champlin <Na...@seuplift.org>
Dear friends:
The City’s Office of Community and Civic Life, Southeast Uplift’s primary funding source, submitted a budget to the Mayor last Friday that will cut our funding by 31% starting on July 1. This will severely impact our capacity to provide YOU- our community of organizations and individuals - with the resources, trainings, and capacity-building support that fuels your amazing work throughout our district. And it will severely underfund the three other District Coalition Offices that will join SE Uplift in welcoming in our new form of government.
PLEASE TELL THE MAYOR TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR DISTRICT COALITION OFFICES. And please spread this a call to action to your network! Below is a sample message that you can send.
Please don’t wait. The Mayor is developing his budget now to present to City Council in March. The time to act is now!
Thank you for all you do to make our Portland communities great. See more details below the letter.
-Nanci
Nanci Champlin (she/her) | Executive Director
3534 SE Main Street | 503.232.0010 x 1 | na...@seuplift.org
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Collaborating with the Southeast Portland community to build informed, engaged, and participatory communities that support our social and ecological well-being since 1968. We also joyfully support neighborhoods in Northeast Portland that are south of I-84.
To mayorw...@portlandoregon.gov and hayley....@portlandoregon.gov
Subject: Increase Funding for District Coalition Offices!
Dear Mayor Wheeler,
For 50 years, District Coalition Offices (DCOs) have helped Portlanders improve the livability of their neighborhoods and engage with city government. In any given year, DCOs support hundreds of grassroots organizations that activate thousands of volunteers in every corner of the city to make Portland a more safe, equitable and resilient place to live, work and raise a family.
DCOs serve as the highly cost-effective centerpiece to Portland’s internationally-recognized civic engagement infrastructure. They have a vital role to play in connecting Portlanders to their new form of government, and in helping city bureaus communicate public policies to the people they serve.
Don’t let this popular program wither under your watch! Please increase funding for District Coalition Offices in the next fiscal year’s budget.
Thank you,
[Name]
[Address]
Want to learn more?
- Watch the Civic Life District 3 Info Session held on February 15. (starts at about minute 10)
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