Portland voters will be using Ranked-Choice Voting in the November election to elect its Mayor, Auditor and City Council. Learn how Ranked-Choice Voting works and remember to make your voice heard by Tuesday, November 5.
From celebrating our 25th year at our Summer Soirée to strengthening community power through opportunities and milestones from our research, environmental justice, and advocacy teams at CCC, catch up on the latest by reading our summer newsletter!
The 2026 Legislative session has officially wrapped. Despite it being a short session with only 35 legislative days to pass policies, CCC members were hard at work and successful in passing meaningful policies to protect immigrants and refugees, improve tenant rights and access to housing, expand access to childcare for working families and more! Read our full recap.
This Black History Month, we honor a founder who has made a lasting impact in Portland—through the organization he started for Black youth and families and as a driving force behind establishing the Coalition of Communities of Color 25 years ago.
Tony Hopson Sr. sat down with us to reflect on his upbringing, the shifts that transformed culturally specific services, and why working across racial lines matters more than ever.
Read our first newsletter of the year! From action opportunities to protect climate justice investments in Portland to advocating for legislative policies in Salem to protect our communities, we hear many opportunities to continue legacies of freedom and change built by Black Americans this Black History Month. Plus we share the latest findings from our Nonprofit Study in partnership with the Nonprofit Association of Oregon.
