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Year 23 • Issue 07 31 October 2016 1. For Oregon’s Recreation Economy, A Watershed Moment 2. Travel Oregon Winter Campaign Toolkit 3. Toward Pedagogies of Critical Community-Based Learning Symposium – November 4th, 2016 at Portland State University 4. How To Tell A Story That Sparks A Movement 5. Mobilizing Community Partnerships in Rural Communities: Strategies and Techniques 6. New NACo Report: Digital Coast: Tools to Promote County Resilience 7. Why These Freelancers Ditched Cities For Rural America 8. Friday Transportation Seminar: Lessons from the Development of a Guidebook on Pedestrian and Bicycle Connections to Transit 9. Listen Now! Heart & Soul Talks: Big Ideas for Small Town Business Success 10. 3 Ways That Turning Parking Spots Into Parklets Helps Businesses 11. Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice 1. For Oregon’s Recreation Economy, A Watershed Moment Love of land and water runs deep for Oregon’s recreation guides.

Quote of the Week: Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ~Dean Acheson

Oregon Fast Fact: The John Day River has more miles of scenic waterway than any river in the United States. The river's total length is 281 miles.

How’s this for a nice chunk of undeveloped real estate: roughly half of Oregon’s 62 million acres is publicly owned. A good bit of that’s water, and whether you’re a visitor setting first sights on the majesty of an Oregon river, the seasoned guide who paddled him or her safely there, or the trained conservationist working behind the scenes to protect that waterway’s pristine conditions, it’s easy to recognize the value of keeping it healthy and accessible.

Oregon’s Outdoor Recreation Industry is flourishing in every corner of our state, forging an economic expansion from which good stewardship and smart enterprise flow outward, annually generating $12.8 billion in spending on gear, services and travel and providing a vital shot of revenue to rural communities.

To access the full story, click here.

2. Travel Oregon Winter Campaign Toolkit Through our conversations with the Regional Destination Marketing Organizations, as well as our tourism town hall discussions around the state, Travel Oregon understands there is an industry-wide need to increase marketing efforts in winter to boost shoulder season visitation.

In response to this, we will begin a winter marketing campaign in midOctober based on the strategy that Oregon’s cool climate doesn’t take away from the beauty and experiences our winters offer visitors. This winter, we’ll celebrate the unexpected opportunity in all of our weather elements, with the honesty and understated cool that Oregon is known for.

To access the toolkit, click here.

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3. Toward Pedagogies of Critical Community-Based Learning Symposium – November 4th, 2016 at Portland State University Community organization leaders as well as faculty, staff, and graduate students with an interest in community-based learning are invited to attend the first Toward Pedagogies of Critical CommunityBased Learning, a practitioner-focused, one-day symposium hosted by the Office of Academic Innovation (OAI) at Portland State University.

Tailored to all levels of proficiency, the primary purpose of the symposium is to illuminate the power inequalities that undergird community-based learning and promote community engagement pedagogies that are rooted in social justice ideals and values. By integrating community engagement experiences with thoughtful introduction, analysis, and discussion of issues important to understanding social justice, critical community-based learning pedagogies strive to promote positive social change, examine the distribution of power in society, and to focus on developing authentic, synergistic relationships between higher education institutions and the communities being served.

Registration for this one-day symposium is free and includes participation in all sessions, lunch, and opportunities to network and learn from other community-based learning enthusiasts across the Portland Metro area.

For more information about this symposium, click here.

4. How To Tell A Story That Sparks A Movement Storytelling is central to every successful movement in time. A good story connects hearts, drives empathy and inspires action.

To spark a movement, you must return to the human story.

To access the full story, click here.

5. Mobilizing Community Partnerships in Rural Communities: Strategies and Techniques This Report describes how rural communities can develop and maintain organizational and community partnerships with local health departments, community health centers, healthcare organizations, offices of rural health, hospitals, and non-profit organizations.

To access the report, click here.

6. Digital Coast: Tools to Promote County Resilience This NOAA-sponsored website is focused on helping communities address coastal issues and has become one of the most-used resources in the coastal management community. The dynamic Digital Coast Partnership, whose members represent the website’s primary user groups, keeps the effort focused on customer needs.

Learn more in our About section, or just dive in. And please provide feedback as often as possible.

Hearing from you is what makes the Digital Coast work.

For more information, click here.

7. Why These Freelancers Ditched Cities For Rural America "We had gunfire in our Harlem neighborhood. We have daily gunfire here, but it's from hunters and gun enthusiasts," explains Hans Hageman, a creative marketing consultant and strategist. A New

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York native who remembers an earlier, grittier incarnation of the city, he's doing today what would have been hard to conceive of earlier in his career—living in a rural area and working for himself.

At one point, Hageman was living in a brownstone and making six figures as a nonprofit executive, but he wanted a different life. So he moved to Pine Island, New York (population 1,534), 55 miles northwest of New York City, but about as small-town as you can get and still within driving distance.

"I only wish I had walked this path sooner," he says. "In the changing world of jobs and work, I want my kids and the students I have taught to realize that the traditional path is dead."

To access the full story, click here.

8. Friday Transportation Seminar: Lessons from the Development of a Guidebook on Pedestrian and Bicycle Connections to Transit To improve safety and increase transit use, transit agencies and the jurisdictions they serve have to approach transit service as door-to-door not just stop-to-stop.

Walking and bicycling are key modes for transit access.

Working with the Federal Transit Administration, a team from Portland State University developed a guidebook on improving pedestrian and bicycle access to transit (forthcoming). As part of the guidebook process, the PSU team conducted case studies on best practices of recent efforts in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

This presentation will cover key lessons from the case studies, along with an overview of the guidebook.

Seminar Speaker: Nathan McNeil, Allison Duncan and Drew DeVitis; Portland State University Event Date: Friday, November 4, 2016, 12:00pm to 13:00pm PDT Seminar Credit: 1 Where: Room 204 of the Distance Learning Center Wing of the Urban Center at PSU Follow this link on the day of the seminar to stream it live.

For more information, click here.

9. Listen Now! Heart & Soul Talks: Big Ideas for Small Town Business Success The Orton Family Foundation is excited to share with you a recording of the October 20 Heart & Soul Talks: Big Ideas for Small Town Business Success. Listen now.

Find call notes along with additional tips and examples in our Google Doc: http://bit.ly/2cBIjkt.

10. 3 Ways That Turning Parking Spots Into Parklets Helps Businesses How you feel about parklets—street-parking spaces converted into temporary gathering spots— depends in large part on how you get around the city. If you walk or take a bike, and generally prefer a more human scale to the urban environment, you probably love these little plazas and sitting places.

If you drive and spend much of your life in the endless Costanzian battle that is finding a parking spot, you probably don't.

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Those positions aren't likely to budge anytime soon. So the real tiebreaking question, at least in terms of public opinion, is how businesses themselves feel about repurposing their storefront parking spots for pedestrians. If Chicago retailers are any indication, get ready for the parklets.

Chicago started allowing businesses to create parklets called People Spots a few years ago. Nine emerged across the city: two in Andersonville, four in Lake View, one in the downtown Loop, and two in Bronzeville. This past summer, the local Metropolitan Planning Council evaluated the business impact of these spots by recording a full day's activity at each and interviewing parklet users and retailer owners alike.

To access the full story, click here.

11. Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice Looking to ratchet up your nonprofit’s effectiveness and accountability?

Maintaining the public trust is critical to preserving the charitable sector’s diversity, adaptability, and capacity for innovation for the purpose of improving life and the natural world.

Independent Sector’s Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice is the foremost guide for sound and successful practice by charities and foundations in the United States. Thirty-three principles succinctly provide clarity about legal compliance and public disclosure, effective governance, strong financial oversight, and responsible fundraising.

The Nonprofit Association of Oregon has partnered with Independent Sector in the dissemination of the Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice as a means to provide a strong guide for private foundations and public charities that aspire to high standards of governance and ethical practice. We join in encouraging board and staff leaders of every charitable organization to examine these principles carefully and determine how best they should be applied to their own operations.

The 2015 edition provides considerable new value, reflecting changes in law as well as new circumstances in which the charitable sector functions, and new relationships within and between sectors. New highlights include principles applying to:        

A Code of Ethics Whistleblowers Risk tolerance and mitigation as they concern technology advances New business and earned income opportunities Transparency versus privacy Executive compensation Overhead costs Fundraising

To access this publication, click here.

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