The City of Portland and R & R General Contractors have bid opportunities available in the scopes of work for Gateway Discovery Park . The Community Benefits Plan negotiated Targeted opportunities for MWESB’s and Small Businesses located in the area and zip codes 97220, 97230, 97216, 97233,97266 and 97236. We also have workforce objectives for […]
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Festival of Nations Sponsorship Drive Picks Up Steam
Division Midway Alliance (DMA) began its sponsorship drive for the 2016 Festival of Nations at the beginning of April. Several media sponsors — KBOO, I Heart Radio and Slavic Community Center of NW — are on board to help DMA reach the public with news about the Festival. Without media sponsors, DMA would have to […]
Online expert shares insight on websites and Google-think
By Ann Ereline Blog + Facebook + Twitter = Great web presence and great business Sounds simple, right? To hear Guy Edwards tell it, it can be. Just an hour, OK, maybe two or three, a week makes a big difference to your online marketing. Guy enthralled the about 20 East Portland business owners at […]
Mt. Hood Wellness Center Serving East Portland
Bob Dylan sang the “Times they be a changing” fifty years ago, and it is as apropos as ever. This author never thought that in his lifetime he would be writing about a legal cannabis business, but that is the case. The Oregon Voters have spoken and cannabis is legal. It has come out of […]
Calling all East Portland Artists
Division Midway Alliance’s President Lorelei Young is compiling a list of artists who live or work in East Portland. Opportunities to hire artists for community projects arise but seldom get response from East Portland artists. The list will be shared with neighborhood associations, festival coordinators and agencies that have commissions or funding for art projects. […]
Division Midway Businesses Form First Business Watch
After March’s business mixer, several Division Midway business owners expressed interest in forming a Business Watch in the district. Mark Wells, Crime Prevention Specialist with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, conducted two outreach meetings with business and property owners to ascertain their issues and concerns. The Business Watch is currently located in the commercial node […]
East Portland Jobs Fair May 11th.
The East Portland Neighborhood Prosperity Initiatives (NPI) are hosting a Jobs Fair on May 11th from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The three NPIs – Historic Parkrose, Division Midway Alliance, and Rosewood – are joining forces with Mt. Hood Community College and SE Works to help East Portlanders find work. The NPI is a program […]
DMA Capital Improvement Committee Improves Storefront Improvement Grant Program
Improve. Improve! IMPROVE!!! Yes, that is the message the Capital Improvement Committee would like to share with Midway business and property owners. Again this year, DMA is offering storefront improvement grants for Midway business and commercial property owners located in the NPI boundaries along SE Division Street between 117th & 148th Avenues. (more…)
DMA hits the airwaves to pitch events to Slavic communities
By Ann Ereline Festival of Nations’ sponsor Slavic Community Center of NW and Slavic Family Radio, which reaches tens of thousands of Slavic-languages speakers in our area, put DMA on the air recently to promote not only the festival but also the May 11 job fair. By all accounts the part-English, part-Russian chat went well. […]
Barb Klinger: Long-time Community Activist Keeps On Giving
What makes a community, and an organization, great are the individuals who are a part of that community.. So often these individuals make contributions that are never seen by the larger community. One of these individuals is Barb Klinger. Barb has lived in Southeast Portland almost all of her life. She is part of the […]
