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Welcome Luann, Our New Communications Director!
Please join us in welcoming Luann Algoso as our new Communications Director! We are SO excited to have Luann on our team and we know you’ll love her, too. Next time you’re at an event or online, tell her hi! Luann has a lot of communications, nonprofit and advocacy experience and comes to us from our partner organization, Asian […]
Kelly’s Story
Kelly’s Story: I live in Portland in a household of 4, with my husband and our 2 kids. Milo is 4yrs old and Quillan is 15 months old. I have been worked with pregnant and nursing moms for 2.5yrs, as an on-call employee with no benefits. My husband works part-time as a barista and has […]
Amy’s Story
Amy’s Story: I gave birth to my beautiful daughter but soon after found out she needed extra stay in the NICU. My husband and I were extremely stressed and heartbroken to be discharged from the hospital without Aubrey. At the time, I was employed at a Portland nonprofit. I worked with at-risk students and led […]
Jenna’s Story
Jenna’s Story: My partner and I spent three years preparing financially to have a baby. We knew it would be a financial struggle and that we needed to finish our education and save as much as we could before the baby was born. We knew that even if our jobs granted any parental leave, it […]
Paisly’s Story
Paisly’s Story: My name is Paisly. I am nineteen years old, and I am a low wage earner. I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. My mom and I still live at the same residence where I grew up. I graduated from Jefferson High School last June. I work two low wage jobs. At […]
Hila’s Story
Hila’s Story: My name is Hila, I work for Metro in Solid Waste. I have been an employee here for two years, and I love my job and working for Metro. My spouse and I have a two year old and we are expecting our second baby in June. My husband is a full time […]
When Work Works Award | 2016 Oregon Winners
We are excited to announce the 2015-16 Oregon winners of the prestigious national When Work Works award for flexible employers! Please join us in congratulating these forward-thinking employers who know that making work work for their employees is good for everyone, including their bottom line, the communities where they operate, and our state’s economy! We […]
Multnomah County Adds Paid Parental Leave Policy for Employees
Multnomah County Employees Will Have Paid Parental Leave Six weeks of paid parental leave will promote the health and economic security of County employees, their families, and their community Effective November 1, 2015, Multnomah County employees will be eligible to take up to six weeks of fully paid parental leave when they welcome a new […]
Apply by November 6, 2015 for the When Work Works Award!
We know that creating a family-forward workplace takes courage and leadership. That’s why we’re celebrating the Oregon employers who are operating flexibly and making work work for their employees. Every year, Family Forward facilitates the When Work Works Award in Oregon. When Work Works is a prestigious national award program that recognizes employers who are successfully building flexible workplaces that really work for […]
Film Screening | The Raising of America
The U.S. is a can-do nation. So why is child well-being in the U.S. so much worse than in other rich countries? How does what Paul Kershaw calls “the growing squeeze” on so many young families and caregivers—the squeeze for time, for money and for resources—“drip down” on their infants and young children, literally […]
Author Event | Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over
Please join us to hear Caroline Fredrickson, author of Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over, discuss how a growing swath of working women such as domestic workers, part time workers, small business employees and farm workers get left out of U.S. labor laws – and what to do about it. Wine, beer & light […]