Jean Ann Van Krevelen will provide guidance
on HIV/AIOS programs and policies to
President-elect Barack Obama.
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News of the Bookstore’s financial crisis
reached supporters by email Dec. 10, according
to Carter, who is one of two 3/4-time paid staff
members at the nonprofit. She says In Other
Words has launched an aggressive fund-rais
ing campaign and is getting the word out via
Facebook and MySpace.
After that APB, donations flooded in from
friends and philanthropists both locally and na
tionwide. By Dec. 18, rhe nonprofit raised $10,000
of its $11,000 goal.
If now has set a second goal. “We want to
make an additional $10,000 by the beginning of
March,” said Carter.
That sum will pay off a credit line that expires
next month with little hope of renewal.
“We always operate with a certain amount
of debt, but we need to keep it at a responsible
level,” she said. “With our store sales down, we
weren’t able to pay it down.”
In Other Words, founded in 1993, is the
only surviving nonprofit women’s bookstore in
the United States. After leaving its Southeast
Hawthorne Boulevard digs three years ago
for the cheaper rents and more grungy feel of
North Portland, it hoped to reinvent itself in
a new part of town, cutting costs and adding
more public events into the mix, according
to Carter. It hosts book study and discussion
groups, yoga classes, a women’s music se
ries, a fitness class called “Homorobics” and
rhe popular monthly open mike series “Dirty
Queer.”
Carter says she is optimistic that In Other
Words will survive the recession. “I don’t think
the Portland community is going to let us go
down.”
A dance party benefiting In Other Words will
be held from 7 to 11 p.m. Dec. 21 at Zaytoon,
2236 N.E. Alberta St.
An After Solstice Book Sale runs in January
with selected titles marked half off.
The community is urged to send tax-de
ductible donations to 8 N.E. Killingsworth St.,
Portland, OR 97211, or www.chi-cash-advance.
com/sforms/appeal804/contribute.asp.
President s Advisory Council on
HIV/AIDS Adds Portland Member
access to care is my main concern,” said Van
Jean Ann Van Krevelen, the former executive
director of Cascade AIDS Project, has been ap
pointed to rhe President’s Advisory Council on
HIV/AIDS.
The council, which meets twice a year in
Washington, D.C., provides advice, information
and recommendations to the secretary of health
and human services regarding programs and poli
cies related to HIV/AIDS.
Van Krevelen was recommended to the post
by outgoing U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.,
whom she described as a “champion for HIV in
the state.” She resigned from CAP April 16 and
has since consulted for Lillian Shirley, director of
the Multnomah County Health Department, and
Lolenzo Poe, senior policy adviser for Multnomah
County Chairman Ted Wheeler and the HIV/
AIDS Directors’ Consortium.
The Oklahoma native moved to Portland more
than two years ago after leading Regional AIDS
'Intercommunity Network in Oklahoma City.
To fulfill her duties, she says she must stay up
to date on what’s happening in HIV both domes
tically and internationally as well as policy issues,
news and research about vaccines and treatment.
According to Van Krevelen, most of her col
leagues on the council have backgrounds in re
search and medicine. She brings the unique ex
pertise of being a care provider.
“I’m definitely a big prevention person, but
Krevelen.
With rhe reauthorization of the Ryan White
bill, she says this is a big year for those who receive
those funds.
Human Rights Week Flops
A GLBTQ Equity Panel, the second in a string
of events dubbed Human Rights Week, sponsored
by the city’s burgeoning Office of Human Relations
and its Human Rights Commission, ttx>k place Dec.
4 at Portland City Hall.
But good luck trying to find out. about this
or any of the other Human Rights Week events,
which ran from Dec. 3 to 10.
It seemed that in the shuffle of getting one of
the city’s newest offices on its feet—led by former
Latino Network executive director Maria Lisa
Johnson—it forgot to get the word out about its
first major event.
At the commission’s second meeting Dec. 4,
Johnson touted her office’s work in putting to
gether Portland’s first-ever Human Rights Week
and passed out posters and postcards with original
art commissioned with city funds, a press release
dated Dec. 2 and a Web site address adorning the
materials.
But the Web site was dead, and the Office of
Human Relations’ Web site offered no informa
tion about Human Rights Week.
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