JULY 27, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 43
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CENTS
News ..........................3,8-10,12 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 AIDS Funding ...................8
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO COURTESY OF PHCC
HUNDREDS MARCH
A coalition of community organizations is concerned
about the proposed plan for the Portland Harbor.
Groups
Oppose EPA
Harbor Plan
A
diverse coalition of community
organizations have come out in
opposition of the proposed En-
vironmental Protection Agency
plan to clean the Portland Harbor Mega
Superfund site. The Portland Harbor
Community Coalition is pushing for
a more aggressive clean-up plan and
more time for public comment.
The superfund site is a 10-mile stretch
of the Willamette River from the Broad-
way Bridge to Kelly Point Park. Water
and sediment in these areas has been
contaminated with hazardous sub-
AP PHOTO/JASON PATINKIN, FILE
See HARBOR on page 3
In this ile photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016,
displaced people walk next to a razor wire fence at
the United Nations base in the capital Juba, South
Sudan. South Sudanese government soldiers raped
dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week
just outside a United Nations camp, and at least
two died from their injuries, witnesses and civilian
leaders said.
World News
Briefs page 10
Kam Williams Gives
'Hollywood Beauty
Salon' Four Stars
page 6
Hundreds of people took to the streets July 21, on the same night of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the GOP Convention, to protest the recent
shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. People in the crowd circulated Initiative 873; the “John T. Williams Bill”,
named after an Indian woodcarver who was killed by the Seattle Police in 2011. Initiative 873 would change the wording of current law to make it easier
to prosecute police oicers who use deadly force.
Report Looks at OCF’s Diversity, Equity Work
Philanthropy watchdog inds disconnect with communities served
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
A
report
published
last month on the
Oregon Community
Foundation identi-
ied a history of cultural
insensitivity and poor
outreach to communities
of color — but also said the
organization is making
strides toward improving
its diversity practices.
The National Center for
Responsive Philanthropy,
a watchdog organization
that examines grantmak-
ing organizations, worked
with OCF as well as OCF
grantee organizations on
the report, titled, “The Or-
egon Community Founda-
tion: Can It Build a State-
wide Legacy of Equity and
Inclusion?” The report was
part of a newly launched
project — called Project
Philamphlify – intended to
examine how large foun-
dations (those with $1 bil-
lion or more in assets) are
beneiting the most mar-
ginalized populations in
the country.
“There’s kind of a culture
of niceness and deference
to foundations because
they have a lot of resourc-
es,” said Lisa Ranghelli, one
of the report’s co-authors.
Part of the idea behind
Project Philamphlify is to
embolden people to take a
closer look at how grant-
makers approach their
work.
Ranghelli and coauthor
Caitlin Dufy surveyed
OCF’s grantees, and in-
clude several anonymous
quotes from the list. (The
Skanner News contacted
some organizations and
coalition groups that have
received Oregon Commu-
nity Foundation Funding
in the past – including the
Coalition of Communities
of Color — for comment on
the report but did not re-
ceive a response.)
Ranghelli said OCF pro-
vided researchers with a
list of all grantee organi-
zations, along with contact
information and they sent
surveys asking about the
foundation’s work.
“What I think was actual-
ly most surprising was the
disconnect between what
leaders of color and LGBTQ
leaders were saying about
See FOUNDATION on page 3
Obama Returns to Convention Stage
Democrats should be ‘running scared’ by Trump,
he tells reporters
Josh Lederman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack
Obama acknowledged Wednesday
that his hopes for a new tone in
politics, embodied in the rousing
Democratic convention speech he
delivered 12 years ago, never mate-
rialized. Still, he says he remains un-
daunted.
In 2004, he was the obscure Sen-
ate candidate from Illinois whose
words catapulted him to the center
of American political consciousness.
On Wednesday night, he steps on the
convention stage as the battle-hard-
ened president hoping his legacy
won’t be eroded by the outcome of
the election to replace him.
It’s hard to overstate what Obama
has at stake as he implores voters to
elect Hillary Clinton. Take Republi-
can Donald Trump at his word, and
if elected, he’d undo just about every-
See OBAMA on page 3
AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, FILE
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Activists say most don't
realize how toxic harbor
actually is
In this Sept. 6, 2012 ile photo, President Barack
Obama speaks at the Democratic National
Convention in Charlotte, N.C. The president
acknowledged Wednesday, July 27, 2016, that
his hopes for a new tone in politics, embodied
in the rousing Democratic convention speech he
delivered 12 years ago, never materialized. Still,
he says he remains undaunted.
