While updating my web site last week, I realized that I have done FAR more training here in the Portland, Oregon metro area since moving here in Fall 2009 than I did in Austin, Texas while living there from 1996 through 2000 – in fact, it was rare I presented in Austin, or the rest of Texas, when it was my home. It was a shock to realize this – I consider Austin my spiritual home, and get misty eyed at the sweet memories of living there. But, indeed, the greater metropolitan Portland area has been much kinder to me, professionally speaking.
So I want to give credit where credit is due: thank you, PDX! And a long overdue thank you to the people and organizations who have made this happen:
- Kathleen Joy and Oregon Volunteers (Oregon Commission for Voluntary Action & Service)
- Northwest Oregon Volunteer Administrators Association (NOVAA)
- The fabulous Erin Barnhart
- The Rose City Rollers & Heather Wilkinson
- Nonprofit Network Southwest Washington
- PDXTech4Good
- Institute for Nonprofit Management – Portland State University
- Friends of Family Farmers
- Qwest Pioneers Volunteer Network
- Northwest Portland Hostel and Portland Hawthorne Hostel, both a part of Hostelling International – USA
Here’s more information about the training I provide (both onsite and online training!).
I’m been quite hard on Portland since moving here – but the reality is that it’s a community that has believed in me. And I am oh-so-grateful for that support!