Metropolitan Family Service promotes equity, helps people gain prosperity, and builds a connected community for all ages.
Portland, Oregon
Joined May 2008
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What an honor to moderate this panel at #ASEE2024 with our community partners from @MtHoodCommunity Head Start and @mfspdx Ready, Set, Go! program. Grateful as always for their insight and expertise. What a treat to share their voices with @ASEE_DC! @TERCtweets @ieiatnd @STEMatND
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🚲🧳 Our e-cargo bike lending library, with partners @MFSpdx & @theStreetTrust, launches in April. Focused on disadvantaged communities, we'll showcase e-cargo bikes as affordable car alternatives. Check out our board member's article on e-bike incentives ow.ly/SRZF50QMXSF
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#AmeriCorpsWeek is almost here & we're highlighting our amazing #AmeriCorps OregonServes programs! @mfspdx AmeriCorps members address critical community needs, while also gaining valuable professional & personal experience, insights, & growth. Learn more: mfspdx.org/americorps
ALT 'Program Highlight: Metropolitan Family Service (MFS). MFS AmeriCorps members address critical community needs, while also gaining valuable professional & personal experience, insights, & growth for their next steps after AmeriCorps.'
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We met Maxi last summer at the @mfspdx food pantry at Parklane Elementary School. Learn more about Maxi and her amazing work to #EndHunger in our community. 👏👏👏
ALT photo of Maxi Hernandez handing out a cauliflower to a family at the MFS food pantry at Parklane
Meet Maxi Hernandez, a Food Systems Ambassador, whose goals are to teach community members to grow and harvest their own food and help them find their voices and join their group of leaders in the Spanish-speaking community.
Read her full story: OregonFoodBank.org/Maxi
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Excited to share: @ginasvarovsky presented at @theNASEM PreK-12 STEM Education Innovations Committee Meeting session focused on in-service teacher PD. Gina shared about @NDSTEMFellows and the early childhood engineering PD she runs with collaborators @TERCtweets @mfspdx @HeadMhcc
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Grateful for this opportunity to share about the life-giving teacher/EC educator PD work - and rep the amazing teams - I get to be a part of through @NDSTEMFellows and our Head Start on Engineering/Ready, Set, Go! Engineering projects w/ @TERCtweets, @HeadMhcc, & @mfspdx!
Excited to share: @ginasvarovsky presented at @theNASEM PreK-12 STEM Education Innovations Committee Meeting session focused on in-service teacher PD. Gina shared about @NDSTEMFellows and the early childhood engineering PD she runs with collaborators @TERCtweets @mfspdx @HeadMhcc
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Check out this article from researchers in the Center for STEM (including @ginasvarovsky), @TERCtweets, and community partners from @mfspdx about the unique potential of engineering with young children and families! #earlychildhoodengineering
Ignite Early Engineering Curiosity!
Learn how young children & their families are embracing engineering. Explore our research-backed article for valuable insights.
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#engineering #familylearning #stem #stemed #handsonlearning #edresearch
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This #HungerActionMonth, we thank the many volunteers like Maxi Hernandez who work to end hunger in our community. Maxi has been a volunteer for more than 5 years at the @mfspdx food pantry at Parklane Elementary School, where her son, 8, and daughter, 6, attend school.
ALT Volunteer Maxi Hernandez hands a cauliflower to a child and their family at an MFS food pantry by Parklane Elementary School.
ALT Two children grab zucchini and mangoes at an MFS food pantry by Parklane Elementary School.
ALT Two children grab zucchini at an MFS food pantry by Parklane Elementary School.
ALT Volunteer Maxi Hernandez organizes green beans at an MFS food pantry by Parklane Elementary School.
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Staff from Forth & Splendid Cycles gave AmeriCorps volunteers an EV & e-bike training at @mfspdx. "Volunteers who understand the benefits of e-mobility as well as rebates for low-income earners are equipped to share their knowledge in the community,” notes Forth's Ian Sergeant.
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🎉 We had an incredible time yesterday hosting another Bite of Reality Fair! Huge shoutout to our amazing friends @mfspdx for generously volunteering their time to guide and support these students. 👏 Can't wait for the next one! 😊 #BiteOfReality #financialeducation
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Our E-cargo bikes clocked 20 test rides in four hours at Gateway Discovery Park Familia Fest last Saturday! We offer EV & e-bike education with our partners @mfspdx on their Electrified Ways to Work program.
Read more!
👉ow.ly/RgqK50OEEph
#ebikes #micromobility #electric
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🚲 Exciting news! Forth won a $150,000 grant from Portland Metro for an #electric cargo bike library. With our partners @thestreettrust and @mfspdx, we'll increase access to this healthy #transportation with a focus on families this fall. Stay tuned!
👉 forthmobility.org/Micromobil…
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🚲 Two kids & your groceries? A friend? A moving box? ECargo bikes can do the job. We helped participants at the Portland @SundayParkways event test ride these versatile two-wheelers. Forth & @mfspdx gave first-hand info about loans for low-inc. earners. 👉ow.ly/ksAF50OkW1w
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Are you a well-organized and self-directed accounting professional? @mfspdx is #hiring an Accounting Manager. #PDXJobs #ORJobs ow.ly/TXTL50NLp9w
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. @mfspdx is #hiring a Program Assistant - Project Linkage. Successful candidates will be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and communicate effectively with a broad range of individuals. #PDXJobs #ORJobs ow.ly/qlr050N5aO2
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PCL is proud to support @OregonFoodBank’s hunger relief programs for kids, in partnership with @IRCOnews, @latnet_PDX, @mfspdx, @SelfEnhancement, @EPHC_Official, @ImpactNW, @PDXParksandRec.
ALT photo of mother and child receiving food at Floyd Light Middle School
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Patton Home, Portland, OR: Our community partner, Our Streets PDX, serves a free daily meal to the residents, and our partner, Metropolitan Family Services, offers a free weekly shuttle to take our residents to do their grocery shopping. #HealthyAging #FoodInsecurity @mfspdx
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It's been a great few days in Portland working with our collaborators from @mfspdx, @HeadMhcc, @OMSI, and @TERCtweets on our @NSF funded projects focused on engaging young children and their families in #earlyengineering experiences! @STEMatND @ieiatnd
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. @mfspdx (Portland, OR) is #hiring an Impuestos Comunitarios Program Coordinator. Ideal candidates will have a demonstrated understanding of the tax system and how it affects lower-income populations
#PDXJobs #ORJobs ow.ly/bcg350L3uC2
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@mfspdx (Portland, OR) is hiring a Program Coordinator - Ida And Financial Coaching. Salary: $45,000.00 Salary/year #PDXJobs #ORJobs ow.ly/3FZ230soXho
