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Finance & Operations Director At Caldera, we believe in the power of creativity. Caldera is a catalyst for the transformation of youth from underserved communities through innovative, year round art and environmental programs. Our Youth Program provides students from Portland and Central Oregon with long-term mentoring that nurtures individual creativity, beginning in sixth grade and continuing into young adulthood. Caldera weaves the arts, nature, and personal expression into powerful work that ignites self-expression and allows young people to be creative change agents in their lives and c...

1 of 6 Protestors lined the 11th Street bridge in Hudson on Sunday morning in a show of support for Daunte Wright and his family. Wright grew up in Hudson, and still has family in the area. Rebecca Mariscal / Hudson Star-Observer Tobin Bonesteel creates a poster during the Hudson Bridge Group rally for Blacks Lives Matter on Sunday, April 25. The list included names of some of the Black people who have been killed in recent years. Rebecca Mariscal / Hudson Star-Observer Daunte Wright’s mother, Katie, center, and his aunt, Kelly Bryant, thanked people for coming ou...

Instagram has provided an update on the progress of its new Equity Team, which was formed in the wake of the #BlackLivesMatter protests in the US last year, with the stated intention of addressing systemic bias within Instagram's internal and external processes. Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri pledged to do more to address inequity experienced by people from marginalized backgrounds. That work, Mosseri noted, would include a review of all of Instagram's practices, products and policies, in order to detect issues and improve its syst...

St. James School Board sets 2021 hears board report regarding large-scale STEM education program, and passes summer food program budget St. James Plaindealer On Monday night, the St. James School Board approved one item of new business, and Middle School/High School Principal Karla Beck shared news of a massive grant from JAMF through a St. James  High School alum. In her board report, Beck showed the board the work that JAMF, a software company that developed Jamf Pro, an application used to configure and automate IT administration tasks for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS devices. JAMF's CE...

The 2021 Aspen Leadership Forum on Retirement Savings: Making Retirement Savings Part of an Equitable Recovery Event information Contact On April 15, 2021, the Aspen Leadership Forum on Retirement Savings is kicking off its fifth convening with a free, public dialogue on how retirement savings must be part of an equitable recovery from COVID-19. We invite policymakers, the private sector (record keepers, asset managers, plan sponsors, consultants, fintech), academia, nonprofits, and advocates to join us in a dialogue designed to accelerate the development of a truly inclusive savings system....