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Thank you for coming to Career Connections, Urban League of Portland's 17th Annual Job Fair, "Bridges to Sustainable Jobs."

Find that New Job or New Career at the Urban League of Portland’s 17th Annual Career Connections Fair from 10-4pm pm on April 21st. Career Connections was held at the World Trade Center 2, 121 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR.


Participating Companies Include: Health Care, High Tech, Banking, City Agencies, State & Federal Government, Education, Legal, Nonprofit, Skilled/technical, Retail, Fire/Rescue/Law Enforcement, and more.  Sponsored by American Family Insurance, PGE, Comcast, and Pacificorp.

Our speakers included: Women of Color in the Workplace, Surviving & Thriving, Dr. Carol Parker Walsh, Resume writing and Interviewing: What Hiring Managers Look ForShauna Hardy, USBank & Doug Rice, Enterprise, Opportunities in Renewable Energy, Erik Westerholm, NW Energy Education Institute, Exploring Careers at Trimet - W. Jean Brown, Carol Crossen, Trimet, Stepping into Sustainability: Master Recycler Program, Segeni Mungai, Where Are the Green Jobs? Vicki Lind and Gail Nicholson, Career Counselors, Jobhunting in a Down Market, Peter Paskill, Careermakers ,Bridging the Green Divide, Alan Hipolito, VERDE , Jobs for You in the Energy Industry, Margaret LaJewel Lewis & Toni Cheatham, Bonneville Power Administration, Jumpstart your Jobsearch with Web 2.0, Mazarine Treyz, Urban League of Portland   

Click here to download the powerpoint on Jumpstarting your Jobsearch with Web 2.0.

A partial list of participating employers: Adecco, American Family Insurance, Bonneville Power Administration, Central City Concern, City of Portland, DEEP, City of Portland, HR, City of Portland, Bureau of Purchases, Clackamas County, Clark County HR/City of Vancouver HR, Comcast, Concordia University, Evans Glass, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iron Mountain, Kaiser Permanente, KATU 2, LifeWorks NW, Metro, Multnomah County, Natural Resource Conservation Service, NAVY, New Seasons Market, North Clackamas School District, Oregon Department of Energy, Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Lottery, Outside In, Pacificorp, PHC Northwest, Port of Portland, Portland Community College,  Portland General Electric Company, Providence Health & Services, SAIF CORPORATION, Self Enhancement, Inc., The Standard Insurance Company, State of Oregon-Department of Administrative Services, The Boeing Company, US Bank, VESTAS,  Washington County, Willamette University-School of Education, Worksource Oregon


 

Thank you for joining us at our Equal Opportunity Day Dinner

October 21st, 2008

Our keynote speaker was Dr. Julianne Malveaux, who is President of Bennett College for Women.  Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, she is also an economist, author and commentator, and has been described by Dr. Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.”  She appears regularly on CNN, BET, as well as on Howard University’s Television show, Evening Exchange.

We honored Lolenzo Poe and Vera Katz as our Equal Opportunity Day Award and Edwin C. "Bill" Berry Awardees, respectively.

Please tell us what you thought of the dinner.

All responses are anonymous.

 

 

Thank you for coming to our

Hold On To Your Memory Conference

Picture of event participants

On Saturday September 6, 2008, at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus

Keynote speaker: Monique Williams -Quality Culturally Responsive Care for Older Adults

 

This was a community sponsored event supported by The Urban League of Portland, OHSU, Providence ElderPlace, Volunteers of America Oregon, Legacy Health Systems, and others.

 

 

 

Drumming by Nyewesi Askari

 

 

 

 

 

A caring woman holds another's hand

 

 

 

Urban League Senior Center Participant Ms. Cornelia Welch (l)

 

 

 

 

Thank you for coming to our Annual Meeting on June 17th.

If you have ever wondered about the history of African-American people in Portland, read papersby talented OSU students Andrew Seher and Meaghan Josh, who wrote award-winning papers on the history of the Urban League in Portland in the 1960s

Also, check out OSU's digital collection of Urban League historic photographs, part of their multicultural archives.

 

Honorees, Ms. Lillian Whitlow of the Federation of Women (l) and Mr. Harvey Rice (r)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Laverne Bagley Brown, Urban League board member (center), and friends

 

 

 

Ms. Cyreena Boston, Urban League Board member (l), and friend.