Community Partners
Reward OTI with your Fred Meyer Points
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. is now part of the Fred Meyer Community Rewards program! Now when you do your shopping at Fred Meyer stores, you can link your rewards card to OTI and contribute to a quarterly donation!
Fred Meyer is donating $2.5 million per year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, based on where their customers tell them to give. Here’s how the program works:
• Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to OTI at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards. You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number (87334).
• Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. earn a donation!
• You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates, just as you do today.
• If you do not have a Rewards Card, they are available at the Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store.
Pacific Power Awards Grant to OTI
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. is pleased to announce a $5,000 grant awarded by Pacific Power Foundation for our Pathways to Success program.
The foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations in the categories of education; civic and community betterment; culture and arts; and health, welfare and social services.
With a focus on apprenticeship, our Pathways to Success program offers the Trades and Apprenticeship Career Class (TACC). It is a 7-week, pre-apprenticeship training class that helps women prepare for a high skill, high wage career in construction.
This generous award will help fund student support services, such as books, work boots, tools, rain gear, and bus vouchers and assist staff in placing our students in trades careers and apprenticeships as well as develop relationships with local employers. Students graduate from the state-certified program with everything they need to start working in the trades, from to tools and work boots.
Learn more about our TAC Class or sign up for an information session about the class, the first step to enrollment in the program.
OTI thanks Pacific Power Foundation for its support of our program!
In Kind Donations Make a World of Difference
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. relies on the support of community on a number of levels. We welcome financial support from donors, private foundation, government granting entities and private business.
Thank You!
We also receive generous gifts in the form of goods and services from local businesses and community based organizations like Atomic Direct and The Rebuilding Center.
Atomic Direct donated tools and miscellaneous gear for our recent Social Hour Tool & Gear Swap. The towels, assorted hand tools, drill kits and other gear were very popular with the tradeswomen who attended the event. Atomic Direct builds brand awareness for a variety of clients using direct response television and is based in Portland. The company was also one of our partners in last year’s Give!Guide campaign.
OTI has been working with The ReBuilding Center on N. Mississippi for quite some time and we recently returned to the center seeking 80 feet of CVG material for a project in our office. The center came through with a generous donation so our Pathways training program can now finish a project building out a mezzanine here at our office.
The ReBuilding Center, a project of Our United Villages, is a vibrant resource working to strengthen the environmental, economic, and social fabric of local communities. The center includes DeConstruction Services, a sustainable alternative to conventional demolition, and will soon be launching ReFind Education, featuring workshops and classes on how to safely and creatively work with used building materials. They also offer a free pick-up service, purposeful volunteer opportunities, and donations of used building materials for community projects.
OTI thanks Atomic Direct and The ReBuilding Center for their generosity. If you are interested in our in kind donations program as a method of supporting OTI’s mission, please send an email to dennise@tradeswomen.net.
Worker to Leader: Construction Leadership
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. is very grateful to the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) for supporting activities that increase the retention of diverse women and men of color in the trades. We are excited to offer a course of five 2-hour workshops to introduce tradesworkers to construction related leadership development. Attendees will commit to attending all 5 classes and can expect to be introduced to concepts like project management and becoming a foreman. We know this will be a great opportunity to develop relationships for diverse, experienced tradesworkers to start on their pathway to leadership
Deadline: March 20
Classes will be held Monday evenings from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm in the Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. classroom at 3934 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., #101 (in the basement). The dates will be:
- March 23
- March 30
- April 6
- April 13
- April 20
Topics include: Leadership Panel, Basics of Blue Prints, Stepping up to Foreman, Project Management Basics, and Introduction to Project Scheduling.
We have limited slots available for these workshops. If you are interested please call or email Tiffany Thompson. She will need to know a few things to process your application:
- First and Last Name
- Date of Birth
- Trade
- A short, one paragraph statement about your interest in the courses and what you hope to get out of them
- Gender (optional)
- Race (optional)
Applicants should be diverse women and men of color who are:
- In their last term of apprenticeship OR
- Who have completed highway trades apprenticeship in the last 2 – 5 years OR
- Who can provide a reference from a company, union, or apprenticeship
New Member Benefit: Clinton Street Theater!
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. is thrilled to announce a new benefit for members of OTI: two for one entry into general screenings at the historic Clinton Street Theater in Southeast Portland!
The mission of the theater to support the community through the power of independent film and live events. They accomplish this by creating a safe and welcoming environment where people can be true to themselves while learning about the world around them. They value direct contact with each other in an effort to build a collective, social experience, encouraging a world rich with diversity and unique points of view.
A landmark of Portland cinema history, The Clinton Street Theater is one of the oldest operating movie houses in the United States. Opening in 1915 as the Clinton, the theater became the 26th Avenue Theatre in 1945 and the Encore in 1969. In 1976 it reverted to its original name.
Famous for its long-standing exhibition of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the theater is currently a magnet for independent / revival films. In April of 2012, the Clinton Street Theater was purchased by Roger and Lani Jo Leigh. It has a revolving cast of volunteers and film freaks who enjoy helping support its existence. Most recently, the CST has been visited by local celebrities Chuck Pahlhinuk, Tom Potter and Gus Van Sant.
Click here for showtimes and other information. OTI thanks the Clinton Street Theater for its support of our work in the community! Make sure you have a current OTI membership card when you to check out a screening as you need it in order to get the buy one, get one free entry.
See you at the movies!