Mission Statement:

Puplandia Dog Rescue is a volunteer-driven Oregon nonprofit organized and operated to facilitate the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of dogs while forming partnerships with other local rescues, shelters, veterinarians and businesses. We also educate the public and provide spay and neuter services to prevent unwanted animals and decrease the number of dogs surrendered to shelters and rescues.

Furry Friends, founded in 1999, is a Vancouver, WA, 501(c)(3) non-profit, no-kill cat rescue and adoption organization.

Furry Friends strives to help cats in the Vancouver-Portland Metropolitan and surrounding area receive the medical services and companionship they need. They are operated entirely by volunteers. Their Mission is to rescue abused, abandoned or otherwise homeless cats and house them in a safe, healthy and socialized environment until they find new “forever homes” for them. 

"We believe that a wholesome and secure society depends upon inspired, educated and caring individuals. We are encouraged by the constructive influence on the habit and attitude of young people that comes from positive encounters with the natural world.

Communities of Support and Accountability works with local communities to make our prison systems more humane. They rely on a restorative justice model and develop strategies to connect the community with prisoners in positive ways, such as re-entry victim voices, family visitation, and letter writing to prisoners.

Rigler Elementary is located in the Cully Neighborhood in NE Portland. More information can be found in the Portland Public Schools web pages.

The Apprenticeships in Science & Engineering (ASE) program connects motivated high school students with mentors in pre-professional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) internships.

Living Cully is an innovative collaboration that formed in 2010 between Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East, Hacienda Community Development Corporation, Native American Youth and Family Center, and Verde. Through its work in NE Portland’s Cully Neighborhood, Living Cully reinterprets sustainability as an anti-poverty strategy by concentrating environmental investments at the neighborhood scale and braiding those investments with traditional community development resources.

Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research pursues a vigorous agenda of public health research within large, diverse populations. Their research scientists are a highly diverse and skilled group with specialties ranging from psychology to anthropology to economics to epidemiology.

Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research will host the students’ presentation, and researchers in healthcare disparities will provide feedback.