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Portland State Opens Business Outreach Center
Dean Boyer, Coordinator, PSU
S o u th ea st Portland B usiness
Outreach Center
small business owner, will coor­
dinate the center, which offers
counseling and practical assis­
tance to small business opera­
tors. Boyer will work with indi­
vidual clients, backed by the as­
sistance o f PSU undergraduate
and graduate business students.
“Our business school is com ­
m itted to providing assistance to
small businesses in the Portland
m etropolitan area, and this of­
fice will greatly enhance our abil­
ity to do s o ,” said R o g er
A hlbrandt, dean o f PSU ’s School
o f Business A dm inistration.
The center is funded through a
contract between PSU and the City
o f Portland Bureau of Housing and
Community Development. The bu-
Portland
Averts
Teacher’s
Strike
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Southeast Portland residents
who operate or plan to start a
small business have a new, free
source o f help with the opening
o f the Portland State University
School o f Business adm inistra­
tio n ’s Southeast Portland Busi­
ness Outreach Center.
The center is headquartered in
space donated by First Interstate
Bank at the b a n k ’s 46th and
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W oodstock branch. A second
office is located in space donat­
shame we get our raise because peo­
ed by Bank o f A m erica at that
ple don’t want 57,000 kids on the
b an k ’s Eastport Plaza branch at
streets. Not because they think'tdu-
3952 SE 82nd Ave., ju st south o f
cators are worth it,” an unidentified
SE Powell B oulevard
teacher said.
Dean Boyer, a longtim e south­
“We were fortunate that we were
east Portland resident and former
able to avert a strike, but the crisis is
not over,” said Mayor Katz.
The school board gave its official
OK Thursday. Now it must deal with
other unions representing more than
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3000 secretaries, bus drivers, custo­
el u oj
dians and teacher aids who are work­
ing without contracts. The specter of
kJySCe i y layoffs, program cuts and larger class
sizes still loom in the near future.
Love in the spring
Still, Jack Saggar, president ofthe
Portland Association ofTeachers was
promotion. First 100
elated. “A week ago I would not be
smiling like this," he said.
callers who register will
A Ithough the threat o f a theacher’s
receive a free membership. strike is over, Portland’s public
school system is still in crisis. We
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Next week: How did we get here?
ENCOUNTERS
reau uses federal economic develop­
ment assistance funds it has received
through theU.S. Department of Hous­
ing and Urban Development (HUD)
to fund the program. The $50,000
contract runs through Sept. 30,1996,
and will be extended based on con­
tinuation of HUD funds.
Alan Zeiber, director of PSU’s
Business Outreach Program, said the
new center fits in well with the city’s
targeting o f southeast Portland’s
Brentwood-Darlington and Lents
neighborhoods for economic devel­
opment PSU will work closely with
the Portland Development Commis­
sion and the Bureau of Housing and
Community development to make
sure the neighborhoods have direct
access to technical and financial as­
sistance.
“There are areas of the city that
clearly want and can use what we
have to offer,” Zeiber said. “We seem
to get better response when we have
a presence in the neighborhood we’re
serving. We’ve become part of the
neighborhood we re serving. People
don’t have to travel to PSU to look us
up.”
Zieber said early response to the
southeast Portland center is encour­
aging, and is similar to the positive
response he’s seen at PSU’s North­
east Portland Business Outreach
Center, which opened two years ago.
Zieber and Tim Shea, coordinator of
the northeast Portland center, have
served more than 50 clients in that
part of the city.
Steve Rudman, director o f the
Portland Bureau of Housing and
Community Development, said the
agency was attracted to PSU’s busi­
ness outreach efforts because o f the
success ofthe university's northeast
Portland outreach office.
“The program works because it
involves a one-to-one mentorship
model,” said Rudman. “It seems to
work particularly well for small,
emerging and minority businesses,
particularly in low-income areas.
"We see the value in pursuing this
type of program in a true public-
private partnership This is a great
example o f a town-gown relation­
ship,” Rudman added.
Overall, nearly 150 Portland State
students have worked in the Busi­
ness Outreach Program, serving doz­
ens of small-to-medium-sized busi­
nesses, Zeiber said.
Person seeking assistance at the
Southeast Portland Business Out­
reach Center may contact Dean Boyer
during regular business hours at 225-
2396 (fax: 225-3359).
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