Ten for Teens 2022 Ten years ago, Frugal Living NW featured Welcome Boxes for children entering foster care as an opportunity for all of you to give back to our community. The drive was a raving success as the community showed how much it values vulnerable children in the Portland Metro area. These boxes communicated a much needed message of value, dignity, and worth at a time of great vulnerability and uncertainty in these children's lives. And now we have another opportunity to serve this Christmas season. We're back again this year with our big Ten for Teens giving campaign! Over the last seven years, Frugal Living NW readers have Keep Reading
Masks for PDX: Can you sew masks for local nurses? (cloth mask patterns and instructions)
Cloth Mask Patterns and Instructions I have a contacts at two local hospitals in Portland, Oregon where nurses need cloth masks right away. This is an unofficial request as the hospitals cannot take the liability for giving out homemade masks, but the nurses have been instructed to bring bandannas to protect themselves. If you have any sewing abilities, we need your help! Here are the general guidelines you need to follow as you make your masks: The masks do not need to be fancy or complicated. They do need to have at least two layers of 100% cotton fabric (look through the options at Joann). No flannel, fleece, etc. They do not need the Keep Reading
Portland Family Fun Guide: Volunteer at The Children’s Book Bank
Volunteering at The Children's Book Bank (Portland) Searching for an outing that keeps the kiddos entertained and encourages compassion at the same time? Plan an afternoon as a family or with friends volunteering at The Children’s Book Bank in Portland. Look around your house. Look in the kids’ rooms and under their beds. How many books do your children own? The average middle class household owns 13 children’s books. Are you well above average? For those living in poverty, the ratio of books to children is 1 book per 300 kids. The Children’s Book Bank’s mission attempts to raise that ratio. By collecting donated new and gently loved Keep Reading
17 Practical Ways YOU Can Support Foster Parents
Foster Parent Support My husband and I spent a few years as foster parents in the state of Oregon and we'd learned a whole lot along the way. The most important lesson for us? How critical it is for us to be surrounded by people willing to help us carry the burden of fostering. There isn't any shortage of people and organizations who want to help foster kids. Seriously, if I took advantage of all the groups that offer free stuff to my foster children, the area under our Christmas tree would have been filled and our dresser drawers would have been packed. But support for foster families? The ones on the front lines, parenting and advocating Keep Reading
How you can help Coast Guard units in Oregon affected by the federal shutdown
How to help Coast Guard units in Oregon Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that the ramifications to people affected by the partial government shutdown are beginning to grow. One group that is affected is the United States Coast Guard. Many members of the Coast Guard are obligated to serve even without pay and that is the position they are in right now. This means that a good number of families stationed in the 11 units on the Oregon Coast and on Swan Island in Portland did not receive their paychecks this week but are still working on our behalf. These are families that are typically stationed far away from their own support Keep Reading
Ten for Teens 2018: Give a gift card to a local teen in foster care this Christmas
Ten for Teens 2018 Six years ago, Frugal Living NW featured Welcome Boxes for children entering foster care as an opportunity for all of you to give back to our community. The drive was a raving success as the community showed how much it values vulnerable children in the Portland Metro area. These boxes communicated a much needed message of value, dignity, and worth at a time of great vulnerability and uncertainty in these children's lives. And now we have another opportunity to serve this Christmas season. We're back again this year with our big Ten for Teens giving opportunity! Over the last five years, Frugal Living NW readers have Keep Reading
Ten for Teens 2017: Give a gift card to a local teen in foster care this Christmas
Ten for Teens 2017 Five years ago, Frugal Living NW featured Welcome Boxes for children entering foster care as an opportunity for all of you to give back to our community. The drive was a raving success as the community showed how much it values vulnerable children in the Portland Metro area. These boxes communicated a much needed message of value, dignity, and worth at a time of great vulnerability and uncertainty in these children's lives. And now we have another opportunity to serve this Christmas season. We're back again this year with our big Ten for Teens giving opportunity! Over the last four years, Frugal Living NW readers have Keep Reading
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