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Seed to Supper/Siembra la Cena
Learn to grow your own food during a five-session introduction to gardening course offered by Marion-Polk Food Share, the Salem-Keizer Education Foundation, and OSU Extension Master Gardeners. The program highlights practical, low-cost gardening techniques for building, planning, planting, maintaining, and harvesting a successful vegetable garden. This class is open to low-income adults (defined as earning an income of $1945 or less per month for one individual).
Two English Courses and Two Spanish Courses:
McKinley Elementary School, 466 McGilchrist Street SE, Salem
Tuesdays from 6-7:30 PM starting March 31st
(in English, childcare and food provided)
* Filling up quickly, limited spaces still available!
Grant Community School, 725 Market Street NE, SalemWednesdays from 6-7:30 PM starting April 1st
(in Spanish, childcare and food provided)
Northgate Community Church, 3193 Silverton Road NE, Salem
Saturdays from 10:30-noon starting April 11th
(in Spanish, food provided)
John Knox Presbyterian Church, 452 Cummings Lane N, Keizer
Thursdays from 6-7:30 PM starting April 16th
(in English, snack provided)
Please sign up here: Click Here to Register
For more information, contact Ingrid at 503-798-0457 or ievjenelias@marionpolkfoodshare.org.
Marion-Polk Food Share | 1660 Salem Industrial Dr. NE | Salem | OR | 97301
Hello gardeners,
I wanted to alert you all of an open job posting here at the Food Share. Applications are being accepted now; see below for full details.
Best,
Jared Hibbard-Swanson
Farm and Garden Program Manager
Summary of role - Agency Relations Coordinator
MPFS supports a network of over 100 partner charities that directory distribute food to the local community. The Agency Relations Coordinator is responsible for supporting our partnering food pantries and meal sites through monitoring, data tracking and other agency network coordination efforts.
Statement of Purpose:
Maximize the impact of Marion-Polk Food Share by fostering positive relationships with Partner Agencies and supporting an effective Partner Agency network.
Areas of Responsibility and Tasks:
- Provide excellent customer service to our network of food pantry and meal site managers and volunteers.
- Conduct biyearly monitoring and occasional extra assessments of pantries and meal sites. Ensure adherence to network, state and federal standards and regulations.
- Collect and compile agency network statistics.
- Assist partners in becoming interconnected with neighborhood and regional resources to provide client referrals.
- Assist in implementation of client-focused agency best practices, education and programming in the MPFS partner agency network.
- Understand partner agency financial support needs and coordinate requests to obtain funding.
- Analyze and compile reports of client service data. Produce reports for Agency Relations Manager and other Marion-Polk Food Share Departments.
- Proactively build positive relationships with partners that encourage a culture of trust, collaboration and philanthropy.
- Assist with coordination of Spring Break Lunch and nutrition education programming.
- Other duties as assigned.
Position Proficiency Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent; college degree or some college preferred.
- Comfortable working with individuals from diverse backgrounds, including families in crisis, non-English speakers, seniors and faith-based organizations.
- Able to keep up with a work environment of frequent interruptions and tight schedule while maintaining a high level of organization and communication.
- Good oral and written communication skills required.
- Proficient at Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel) and comfortable learning new computer programs.
- One year minimum experience in customer service or social service related position preferred.
- Experience with data entry or data collection a plus.
- Fluency in Spanish desired.
- Must support the mission of Marion-Polk Food Share.
Posting Details:
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Wage: Starts at $13.00 - $15.00/hour. DOE.
Status:This is a .75 FTE, temporary position, with the duration of at least 1 year. Continuation of position after 1 year is possible. As a temporary position, this position does not include health benefits. Prorated sick, vacation and holiday leave are included with this position.
How to apply:
Send 1) MPFS completed general application, 2) resume and 3) cover letter to careers@marionpolkfoodshare.org or deliver to 1660 Salem Industrial Dr. NE, Salem, OR 97301.
Emailed applications preferred.
Download the MPFS general application at http://www.marionpolkfoodshare.org/ContactUs/Careers.aspxs.
For questions about the position contact Megan Rivera, Agency Relations Manager, at mrivera@marionpolkfoodshare.org.
Deadline to apply: Friday March 27, 2015, 5pm.
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TEDxManhattan: "Changing the Way We Eat" streaming live this Saturday, March 7, 2015
Kendra Kimbirauskas (Farmer and Chief Executive Officer of SRAP) and Michele Merkel (Co-Director of the Food & Water Watch Justice Project and President of SRAP's Board of Directors) are going to be giving talks about factory farms this Saturday at TEDxManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat.
Kendra and Michele will be joining amazing food and farming experts from across the country. You can learn more about the other speakers here.
You can tune into the live stream from the event this Saturday, March 7, 2015 from 10:30AM - 6:00PM EST by going to http://www.tedxmanhattan.
org/webcast/ .
To view the schedule of the speakers and the speaker times, please go here. We encourage you to attend this event and spread the word by telling your family and friends and posting it on your Facebook page. You can also join the Twitter conversation at #TEDxMan and @TEDxManhattan.We appreciate your support!
SRAP
249 Liberty St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
Salem City Watch Members,
The Police Facility Task Force will be meeting at the Broadway Commons next week on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, from 6 pm to 8 pm to further discuss the best location for a new police facility. The public is invited and encouraged to attend so you can lend your support for an appropriate location. A new Police Force Facility is sorely needed and members of the community who serve on the task force are particularly anxious [sic -- eager] that it be built economically, with expediency, and in a carefully thought out way that can best serve the needs of the police and the community. After all 56% of the City of Salem's general fund is spent on Police and Fire every year.
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In Oregon, we are moving quickly on plans to cut carbon pollution, the dangerous stuff that fuels climate change.
But Oregon's inspiring clean energy program is at risk of being polluted by Big Oil. The oil industry is trying to kill the program that has phased in a mix of cleaner fuels for our vehicles while reducing the amount of dirty fuels that pollute our air, water and land.
Protect the law that protects Oregon -- tell your state representative to stand firm against Big Oil's attacks on clean fuels.
The Oregon State Senate voted last month to extend the Clean Fuels Program -- but, true to form, the oil industry is investing big money to lobby the House to block extension of the program.
The Clean Fuels Program is already working by phasing in a mix of cleaner fuels for our cars and trucks since 2009.
And hundreds of innovative companies are now producing cleaner fuels, including sustainable, advanced biofuels, clean electricity and biogas. We're creating clean energy jobs, right here in Oregon, and saving money on fuel at the same time.
The Clean Fuels Program will continue to spur investments in clean energy, cut our oil consumption and introduce more fuel competition to the state. But we can't stop now.
Tell your Oregon representative to stand up for Oregon's Clean Fuels Program.
We cannot afford the oil industry's monopoly over our transportation fuels, economy and health. Don't let profitable polluters take our state backwards -- help protect Oregon's clean energy future.
Thank you,
Joel Reynolds
Western Director, NRDC
The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
"Climate Change to End Spring Break, Scientists Say"
"Scientist say white kids and some kids of color (who aren't too colored to be kind of scary) will not be able to party their asses off in Cancun by 2020 due to coastal beach resorts being submerged. Scientists have had to ask the tough question: "won't someone think of the children (white meritocratic high achieving children, of course)?"
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