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Friday, October 12, 2007

Mercury Who Wants Thousands of Dollars?

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Fri, Oct 12 at 5:30 PM

(I’m bumping this up for the weekend—we start paring down our list on Monday, so speak up ASAP!)

The Mercury’s Holiday Charity Auction is just around the corner, which means it’s time to pick this year’s lucky charity recipient—and we want your input!

Tell us about the great non profits in town that could use a whole big pile of cash—last year, it was $11,000, from readers who ponied up for auction goods like an autographed bass guitar from Storm Large, and a ride on the tram with Sam Adams.

Our criteria is simple: We’ll choose a charity that’s relatively little known, underfunded, and doing great work in Portland. In other words, we want to hand a ginormous pile of cash to a non-profit where it will make a big difference.

Previous recipients have included JOIN, Resolutions Northwest, and the Portland Relief Nursery.

We start researching charities next week. If there’s a group that should be on our list of potentials, leave a note in the comments, or email me.

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I nominate the Portland Women's Crisis Line.

Posted by Blog Junkie | October 12, 2007 1:03 PM

PDX Pop Now!

Posted by Jen Caruso | October 12, 2007 1:39 PM

I suggest a group that provides women/children shelter and other outreach services. PWCL is good too!

Posted by Mike | October 12, 2007 2:17 PM

I second PDX pop Now!

Posted by Steph Hays | October 12, 2007 2:38 PM

I nominate Northwest Worker's Justice Project -- they are one of the few, if not the only, non-profit law firms in portland who handles immigrant worker cases involving wage discrimination, harassment, etc. They are awesome and deserve some loot!

Posted by Nicole W | October 12, 2007 3:01 PM

PDX Pop Now??? hah! good one.

Posted by jim | October 12, 2007 4:07 PM

I nominate p:ear.

Posted by Scott Moore | October 12, 2007 5:54 PM

IRCO (Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization) is a great organization providing services for Refugees and Immigrants in Portland. I know many families who have received help of many kinds from these folks.

Not locally focused, but your neighbors Mercy Corps obviously do great things.

The Old Library Studio, Ethos and Spun are all great local music non-profits. And yes, I like PDX Pop Now!, too.

Posted by Cary Clarke | October 12, 2007 6:05 PM

Oh, and AMP is pretty cool, too, providing homeless and at-risk youth with music education opportunities.

Posted by Cary Clarke | October 12, 2007 6:14 PM

I would like to nominate a really great group, Sisters of the Road. they feed a lot of people very low cost meals and if you go by what you read in the paper are always seemingly in battle for what is right and good. I met Genny Nelson the founder one time and she is a very kind lady. Sisters of the Road is definatly a class act.

Posted by eggyolks | October 13, 2007 9:49 AM

How about Write Around Portland?

They facilitate writing workshops for groups like domestic violence survivors, teens in rehab, and veterans. Workshop writers then have some of their work published in a twice-yearly journal.

Posted by Green Peas | October 13, 2007 1:41 PM

I nominate The Pangea Project (http://www.thepangaeaproject.org)

Posted by meg | October 15, 2007 10:48 AM

I nominate the Portland Schools Foundation.

Posted by Student | October 16, 2007 11:08 AM

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