Stuff I Didn't Know: Home Forward Kids Represent 7% of ALL Multnomah County Kids in Kindergarten.

Have updated the the Home Forward Board packet in right pane under Home Forward YTD Board Packages.  (Be patient, file is now 600 pages+, so will take a while to download).

On PDF page 26 for the July 17th Board meeting XO Steve Rudman report says that Home Forward kids are 7% of all  Multnomah county kids in kindergarten. (you can add that to the long list of stuff I did NOT know).

A kindergarden round up report beginning on PDF page 31 provides more details about what Home Forward is doing to work with families with children. ( Similar demographic data should be available for LIHTC properties, but don't get me started..).

Highly recommended reading. 

Anyone else see a need to connect Oregon families and children in HUD assisted and LIHTC properties to Oregon's "Prosperity Initiative"?

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog. 

Federal Reserve/OHCS Hosting Closed Prosperity Roundtable Meeting with Select Business Officials Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve SF Community Development staff and OHCS are hosting an invite only Prosperity Roundtable for select business leaders in Salem on Wednesday PM. An outline of the program for the meeting is HERE. 

I wanted to attend because I am in the dark about the whole Prosperity Initiative effort in Oregon, including opportunity communities, KIVA Oregon, and the Oregon Solutions Prosperity Project. 

I also don't know if this meeting is designed to engage the business oriented members of the separate Oregon Prosperity Project or if some other subset of business officials were invited. (My request for a list of names of those attending the meeting was declined).  

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.