You’re invited to the third annual Harpers for Housing Sunday, December 4th at 2pm at the Lincoln Street United Methodist Church, 5145 SE Lincoln St., Portland Suggested donation: $10 (please click here to see a map) Come enjoy a festive holiday concert featuring harpers, singers, and a wonderful mandolin player! This is a benefit for [...]
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OK, I know it isn’t a huge sum, but it is a good showing for a small, all-volunteer event. At the beginning of our concert, the executive director of the Northwest Pilot Project, a local housing nonprofit, stood up and announced that the funds we’d raised the previous year helped three elders find permanent housing. [...]
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Every fall a group of harpers from the Portland area gathers to participate in a benefit concert. In recent years the organization chosen as the recipient of funds raised is the local housing charity, the Northwest Pilot Project, which offers assistance to elders 55 and older who are in danger of homelessness. This is an [...]
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