East County Rising Community Projects

“The organizations 990 is reviewed by the Executive Director and Operation Manager prior to filing. In the current situation where the organization is in a hiring process for an Executive Director, the 990 has been reviewed by the Interim Operations Manager. After filing, a copy of the 990 will be distributed to all board members.”

“Conflicts of interest must be disclosed when they arise. When that happens, any board member involved recuses him/herself from the board discussion and vote on the matter.”

“The organization uses the Oregon Nonprofit Association compensation survey to inform the setting of compensation for all employees.”

“The organization makes its conflict of interest policy, governing documents, and financial statements available upon request.”

“Program Service Expenses 34,066, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Covid 19 Resource Navigation - n late 2020 we received emergency funding to support COVID resource navigation in East Multnomah County. We used this funding to provide information on COVID testing and vaccines, as they became available. We also shared information about emergency assistance for utilities, rent, mortgage and preventing evictions due to COVID-related lost wages. In addition to this, we helped local businesses source emergency funding for lost revenue. We utilized our website, social media, emails to our listserv and direct calling and meeting with residents and organizations/businesses to disseminate the information and facilitate the connections to the resources.”

“Program Service Expenses 18,799, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Coalition Building - Through our organizing, the community has continued to call our attention to the importance of housing, especially housing stability post-pandemic as eviction moratoriums are lifted, and the need for greater access to and funding for public greenspaces and recreation in our community. In response, we are prioritized two key initiatives in our outreach and organizing efforts in 2021 1 housing justice campaign and 2 parks equity initiative. This work was done primarily through the Our Parks, Our Future coalition, which formed to explore ideas and feasibility for increasing access to parks and nature and recreational programming in East Multnomah County. We were successful in getting the city of Gresham to fund a feasibility study for a dedicated parks and recreation district, which would provide sustainable funding for these types of programs.”

“Program Service Expenses 7,252, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Advocacy/Lobbying - Our housing justice campaign was identified through our organizing efforts as residents have always expressed a need for additional affordable housing in our area and that rent is prohibitively high for many of our community members. As the COVID pandemic developed and strengthened, there were additional needs to organize and advocate for eviction moratoriums and financial assistance for property owners and renters. We supported successful efforts across the state to urge the state legislature to impose eviction moratoriums and local jurisdictions to provide financial assistance from their ARPA funding.”

“These funds were held by the East County Rising Community Projects fiscal sponsor and reported on preivious 990s from the fiscal sponsor organization”