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P o rtend Observer August 28. 1980 Pegs 6 S e n io rs h o ld b e n e fit te a T u c s o n , A r i z o n a , w as o n c e an I n d i a n v i l lage b e lie v e d to d ate back to the ninth century. The Senior Citizens Task Force Finance Com m ittee w ill hold a “ kick-ofP’ fund raising tea on Sep tember 7th, 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. at Matt Dishman Center. The tea is to raise funds for a new senior center. The Task Force was organized in February o f 1980 to locate and develop a site for a senior center. There is no charge for the tea but donations w ill be accepted. A program w ill list sponsors ($5.00 donation or more) and patrons (SI .00 donation). Potential spon sors and sponsors should call Mrs. LaVerne Smith, Patron Chairman (281-0177) by August 29th. A musical program w ill be presen ted every half-hour. “ Center Facts” will be given by Mrs. Marie Smith, first chairman o f the Senior Adult Service Center Board, and Mrs. Maude Young, current chairman of the advisory board. Victor Clark is learning how to become a day care w o rk e r in a special p ro g ram at P o rtla n d C om m unity C ollege's Cascade Center this s u m m e r. C lark is a sin g le p a re n t w h o has n e v e r w o rked w ith children in a group setting, but is practicing his new skill at the St. Vincent dePaul Child Care Center in northeast Portland. Community Calendar P ortland’s Black Repertory Theater and the dance company Cirque, will be videotaped on-location as part o f a series of video workshops due to begin Saturday, September 6, 1980, through October 11, 1980, from 2:00 pm - 5:30 p.m. Tuition is $100.00 non-credit; $138.00 credit with all equipment and videotape provided. The class will experience all aspects o f videotape production, camerawork, video and audio recording, lighting and editing. Emphasis will be placed on maximizing technical, aesthetic and dramatic quality. Liberty Cable is providing equipment and facilities and will cablecast the complete tapes. For registration and information call 238-2763 or 229- 3539. The M ilita n t B o o ksto re w ill present a talk entitled “ Grenada: Big Revolution in a Little Country.” The speaker will be Paul Freeman. The forum w ill be on Sunday, September 7, at 7:30 p.m . at the M ilita n t Bookstore, 711 N.W . Everett St. in Portland. A one dollar donation is requested. For more information contact Bev Hansen at (503) 222-7225. Leadership D e v e lo p m e n t fo r W om en: Serving on boards, C om missions and in Elective Office, at Smith Memorial Center, Room 338, Por tland State U n ive rsity, September 17, 1980 - 8:30 a m. - 4:00 p.m . Register before September 15, 1980 by calling 1-800-452-7813 (Salem: 378- 6520). Center for Urban Education (CUE) w ill continue its monthly series of emerging issues seminars with a program on government support o f private investment in urban development, to be held on Monday, September 8, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at the Center for Urban Education, 0245 S.W. Bancroft in Port land. Registration will be $2.00. For more information, call 221-0984. The N orthw est A rtists W orkshop will be having a Benefit Jazz concert and Jam at the Euphoria on Sunday, August 31, 1980 at 8pni with David Friesen and John Stowell. The Euphoria is located at 320 SE 2nd, Portland. Admission charge $3. Ed Leek, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention will speak on “ Highlights o f the Democratic Convention,” at the Tuesday, September 2, meeting of the East Central Democratic Women at the Dahlke Manor, 915 NF. Schuyler, at a brown bag lunch at noon. The public is invited. KBPS will launch the Labor Day weekend at 7 p.m. Friday, August 29, with a four-hour exclusive extravaganza when National Public Radio’s JAZZ A LIV E ! transports its audience to the 1980 Chicago Jazz Festival. Regular Friday night programs will be preempted by this special broadcast. KBPS 1460 A M : Friday, September 5, 1980, 7:00 p.m. Black Perspective: SOME ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM WEIGHT WATCHERS. George Rankin, Director o f Economic Development and Employment for the Urban League o f Portland, is interviewed by host LeRoy Patton. The Portland Private Industry Council meets Wednesday, September 10th, 7:00 am, at 621 SW Alder, Room 200. The meeting is open to the public for question and comment. Iran: First hand account of the Country’ s revolution will be presented by Laura Brown, Thursday, September 4, 1980 at 7:30 p.m., N.W. Service Cen ter. For more information call 282-5034. M usic, Skits, and regional energy politics will fill the bill at a Picnic for Public Power, August 31st at Portland’s Laurelhurst Park. The potluck pic nic will begin at 1 pm; the program starts at 3. For more information call 231- 9911. Solar W ater Heating Seminar, Thursday, September 25, 7-10 p.m. at the Portland Audubon House, 5151 NW Cornell Road. Course fee is $5. The seminar will cover such topics as solar energy principles, how to evaluate your site, how to size your system, what kinds o f systems are available, in stallation, servicing and maintenance. For more information call 239-7470 or visit the office at 628 SE M ill Street. Volunteers of Am erica announces the sponsorship of the USDA Child Care Food Program. Meals will be made available to enrolled children at no separate charge, without regard to race, color, or national. Meals will be provided at Volunteers o f America Child Care Center, 234 S.E. 7th Avenue. C am p Fire C lubs w ill be organized throughout M ultnom ah and Washington counties, beginning with the opening o f schools. Before a club can organized, however, volunteer leaders and assistant leaders must be found. If you would like to know more about Camp Fire, call the Camp Fire office at 224-7800. Senior A d u lt Service Center o f near Northeast invites you to a Com munity Tea, Sunday, September 7, 1980- 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., at Matt Dishman Community Center, 77 N.E. Knott, Portland, Oregon. KBPS 1460 AM “ Other Peoples, Other Ways,” Wednesday, September 3, 1980, 2:00 p.m. Interviewed today are David Lukhele, executive councillor o f community af fairs for Ka Ngwane Homeland, South Africa; and Siddiquc Hossain, former professor o f economics and now executive producer of Bandladesh television. KBPS 1450 A M . Tuesday, September 2, I98O, 2:30 p.m., “ Viva Latino!” Host Armando B. Rendon presents the first in a 13-part series on the United States Latino with an examination of basic statistics and a discussion of the evolution o f terms used to describe the Hispanic. Included are comments by Latino leaders in government and education in the United States and Puerto Rico. Economic development planning (Continued from Page 1 Col 6) m unity politics wasn’ t r ig h t.” Boundaries have been set up to ex tend from NE Interstate to NE 42nd Avenue and from NE Broadway to NE Columbia Blvd. In this proposal, one that provides only a vehicle for business and industry expansion w ith o u t community involvement, enough? C ould broader com m unity economic development goals be met if the corporation formed was o f an alternative model, whether fo r p ro fit or n o n p ro fit? C ould the current proposal and its projects be successfully implemented given the inner northeast political climate? Who would directly benefit and how much indirect benefit w ould be derived fo r others? W ho w ould provide control and direction of the proposed corporation? How does economic development begin in areas o f much poverty? Geoffrey Faux, a former director o f the Economic Development Division o f OEO, states that there are three essential ingredients to economic development in poverty areas: 1. Social investm ent, which requires government - usually federal -- resources; 2. C om m unity c o n tro l, which requires local organization; 3. Business organization, which requires freedom from bureaucratic constraints (Faux, “ Politics and Bureaucracy in C om m unity C on trolled Economic Development,” 1971). Effective economic development in areas without competitive labor forces and with slim management talent requires that someone cover the costs o f developing the labor force and management. Also required is coverage o f costs to provide fo r the organizatio n o f community support and ownership and for making long-term invest ments to improve impoverished area economics. As 1960’ s antipoverty programs demonstrated, however, the direc tio n in which governm ental program benefits flow is partly a fu n c tio n o f who controls the program. Only when development area residents themselves have con trol (with incentives to assure that benefits flow in their direction) will economy stimulating investments be o f lasting value, “ economic development must be self development” (Faux, Ibid.). Besides public development and community control, a third item is needed for economic development in poor areas: a set o f techniques and organizational forms proven ef fective in producing economic development in the private sector. C om m unity economic develop ment corporations are operating nationwide as a vehicle capable o f meeting the three crite ria just described. There are more than 400 in the U.S. and all are different. Corporation models vary in con trol, use o f profits, and broadness or narrowness o f program scope. T ra d itio n a l Local Development Corporations have focused only on loan provision and packaging to business w ith membership and programs listed. Such L D C ’ s are profit-making ventures with profits going to stockholders rather than to the general community. N onprofit forms invest in small businesses as a way to support not only local en trepreneurs but the general economic and social climate of the com m unity. (C haracteristics, ad vantages and disadvantages o f the A t a Weight Waft hers m eeting you II hear com plim ents Many a kind w ord ArxJdozensof discussions that II help to give you a new appetite for the thinner life Those are |ust a few of the reasons why Weight Watt, hers has helped m ore people lose m ore pounds than any other w eight loss program in the world Every week thousands of our members gather m classrooms □cioss the country They m eet to nonprofit and the for-profit forms are summarized in an accompanying article next week). Corporations that are involved in more than business development operating under the guidance, direct or indirect, o f local residents, (and in for-profit models, the ownership o f community investors), serve as multipurpose com m unity tools to carry out the development programs and policies the community wants. Often starting slowly w ith a few project focuses, such as cooperative housing as Buckman neighborhood intends, a variety o f economic organizations are built that will at tract outside capital on community approved terms, im prove the physical environment, increase job and business opportunities for area residents, and provide or encourage others to provide services and goods on a more accessible basis fo r residents. Institutions controlled or owned locally can include business firms; in d u stria l development parks; housing development corporations; banks and credit unions; cooperatives (such as food) and organizations or services that upgrade the human and social en vironment, increasing the economic value and energy o f the community and allowing it to participate in the economic advantages and growth of the rest o f society. Next week’ s article w ill discuss com m unity development cor p oration organizational form s - characteristics, advantages and disadvantagess - o f fo r-p ro fit and nonprofit corporations. Later ar ticles w ill discuss community con trol and examples o f development corporations operating nationally and being organized locally in Buckman neighborhood. : ‘ 100 0“ : ran taociaai North Portland Carpenters Hall 2225 N. 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