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ELGL Willamette Valley Forum: Community Rhythms & Public Leadership

ELGL Willamette Valley Lunch Forum Join ELGL’s Willamette Valley chapter this Thursday, June 20th at noon to hear from Elena Fracchia  Associate Director of Income at United Way of Lane County. “All communities have an ingrained narrative which can help to accelerate or block effective civic action. The key is to know the narratives at … Continued

Volunteers Needed! Portland Sunshine Division

The Portland Police Sunshine Division is in need of volunteers to help deliver food boxes this Saturday, June 22nd.  The Sunshine Division delivers emergency food boxes and clothing to Portland families and individuals in need.  This Saturday they need help delivering over 1,000 food boxes to school age children in Portland.  This is part of … Continued

ELGL’s Twitter Becomes a Video

Twitter and Vizify recently partnered up to create a feature that Twitter is calling #FollowMe.  Essentially Vizify takes the information from your Twitter account and makes a video showing your top tweets, some of the pictures you’ve posted, and the other Twitter accounts that you interact with the most. The feature is used to promote … Continued

New Sensation with Brian Southey, City of Bloomington, IL

Since ELGL is not a big fan of icebreakers and since we would rather not know what animal you want to be, this blog feature will serve as a means of introducing new members. While you won’t learn about their favorite animal, you will learn about their ideal Sunday morning, which dead people would they … Continued

Elected with Hillsboro Council President Aron Carleson

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kNF4M-HlU&w=560&h=315] We heard from Milwaukie Mayor Jeremy Ferguson in our first edition of the Elected. Mayor Ferguson discussed Milwaukie’s flirtation with the Yakima Bears. Today, we hear from Aron Carleson, Hillsboro Council President who was part of the effort in bringing the Bears to Hillsboro.  Tonight is the first home game for the Hillsboro Hops and … Continued

Three Day CPBB Conference Sale

The Center for Priority Based Budgeting is extending its social media discount to ELGL members!  If you register for their conference “A Summit of Leading Practices” by 2pm on Friday, June 14th you’ll receive a 20% discount on the cost of admission. For more information and to register visit their website.  

The Takeaway with Cal Horton, Former Chapel Hill Town Manager

In a way Cal Horton introduced several ELGL members (Heather Martin, Kent Wyatt, and Kirsten Wyatt) to the world of local government in Oregon. While first year students at the UNC MPA program, we signed up for a City Management class taught by Cal Horton, Chapel Hill town manager (at the time) and David Ammons, … Continued

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