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JUN E 17, 2011 OREGON S LGBTO NEWSMAGAZINE tionships course and regularly partners with local organizations to provide education and outreach. Because these initiatives weren’t in the budget, Mendez had to find her own funding sources, including the Pride Foun dation, Equity Foundation and benefits or ganized by the local queer community. The PSU social work graduate says she facilitates at least four trainings a month, both in domestic violence for queer groups and in LGBTQ_ cultural competency for domestic violence organizations. But the eight-week Healthy Relationships classes have been particularly successful. The cours es, which use an LGBTQjspecific curricu lum developed by Seattle’s Northwest N et work, fill up quickly, she says. “I t’s a good way to get people involved, also have support groups for partners o f sur because nobody wants to talk about do vivors and for more culturally specific groups, mestic violence, but everyone wants to talk as well as a speakers bureau. For now, she’s about relationships,” M endez explains. just happy to be doing what she’s doing. W hile she expected the classes to function “I just love working with the queer com as a tool for domestic violence prevention, munity,” M endez says. “That’s what I wanted she says they have actually served as a to do, so it’s amazing that it worked out.” feeder into support services. For more information, visit bradleyangle.org. In an ideal world, Mendez says she would — E rin R ook Come Together, Right Now hammad Yunus— Baker’s vision is seen through his Blue Voice E nter prises. Essentially, the idea is to pro vide a localized spotlight on indepen The new economic visions of dent craftsmen, artisans, laborers, designers, etc. through a social media Michkael Baker center called a C A C O O N (Creative Practicing sustainability. Stim ulating the Arts C enter o f Online Organized local economy. Eating well. Supporting Networks), collaborations which are then your community. These life guidelines are to be featured on an online television net not lost on a majority of Portlanders. But work called Showcase Networks. People for Michkael Baker, they’ve become the would then be able to stream and view basis for a life turnaround, and the founda these shows from the local sites and busi tions o f a promising business model. nesses to connect with other people online, For the past three-and-a-half years, and find resources in the marketplace to Baker, 41, has dedicated his energies to help boost independent, local business cultivating an ambitious, localized collab around the world. Baker hopes for funding for the larger orative business plan, centering on a new way for people to work together to subvert project within the next three months, but the corporate mechanism while pumping the public is already privy to one aspect o f up the local economies o f the world. Fueled his vision: The Open Kitchen series. Open by the idea o f “social business” and “social Kitchen unites local vendors, wineries, enterprise”— terms coined by Bangladeshi chefs and artisans to create a completely economist and Nobel Prize winner M u- local meal while bringing together those 53_JÍ 20 AUGUST 2011 7 pm - 2 am $40 ADVANCE • $45 W/ SHUTTLE SERVICE / n I ncludes A ll D rinks , F ood & E ntert J iì J men D J T r o n ic • S u n s e t L u a u • F ir e D a n c e r s • H u g e B o n fir e vepnight E ncouraged • S i iuttle S ervice from O C e . ng • ■. D owntow rkETS AND INFO VISIT WWW.FIREONTHECOLUMBIA.C j fcEEDS BENEFIT THE OREGON CRUSADERS AND THE Q'Ctì ► W iiit c J . la fitti a (JfL C L tL .lt VftltLa! 8036 SE 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97202 503.954.2656 loveartgallery.net 3901 N. Mississippi 503-281 sunlaniighting.com o u g h n u t Too o Sunlan Lighting & Lightbulb Lady: We each light up the world in our own way. JO /IB ucvAo S t jo / all youy ddlhJyVAhc n
