Main: 503-823-4519
City/County Info: 503-823-4000
TDD: 503-823-6868
1120 SW 5th Ave, Suite 114, Portland, OR 97204
Our Programs
Civic Life provides a wide range of neighborhood livability direct services as well as information and referral services. These programs are funded through a combination of City general funds and inter-governmental agreements with other City, County, State, and Federal agencies. The programs include:
Adapt to Impact
Collaboration to transform the ways bureaus engage with Portlanders
- Maintaining Mental Health During COVID-19
- Learn more about Adapt to Impact
- Partnerships
- Our Team
- How our Citywide Public Involvement Best Practices Program transforms your engagmement
- How our Mental Health Program transforms your engagement
- How our Disability Program transforms your engagement
- How our Advisory Bodies Program transforms your engagement
- Bank & Build Knowledge
Cannabis Program
City of Portland Cannabis Program
Community and Neighborhood Involvement Center
Through our programs you can get involved in your neighborhood, access information, build community, support diversity and accessibility, organize a block party, clean up your neighborhood, sharpen your leadership skills, impact city policy and more!
Community Safety
Community Safety Program organizes and supports partnerships to build safe communities that are connected, inclusive and engaged.
Constructing Civic Dialogues
Constructing Civic Dialogues is an evolution of the long-standing neighborhood mediation program. Through this program, Civic Life aims to provide neighbor-to-neighbor engagement resources and civic skill building at no cost to community members.
Disability Program
Connects, supports and encourages collaborative civic engagement between the people of the disability community, neighborhoods and city government.
Diversity and Civic Leadership Program
Capacity building program for underrepresented community-based organizations in order to increase constituent participation in the civic governance of the City.
- Engaging for Equity: A Report on Portland's Diversity and Civic Leadership (DCL) Program, 2007-13
- Equity Funding Formula and DCL Program Expansion Project
- Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization-IRCO
- Latino Network
- NAYA Portland Youth & Elders Council
- New and Diverse Voices - 2016 Small Grants Call for Proposals
- The Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO)
- The Urban League of Portland
Graffiti Program
Improves neighborhood livability by decreasing graffiti, in partnership with the Police Bureau, neighborhood and business associations, youth programs, and other community partners.
Information & Referral
823-4000 - Information and Referral for all City and County Services - helping community members access and do business with their government.
Liquor Licensing Program
Civic Life works collaboratively with state and City agencies, Neighborhood Associations, and community members to help ensure that licensed establishments do not unreasonably impact the community in a negative manner.
Multnomah Youth Commission
City of Portland’s collaboration with Multnomah County to help youth involvement in local government decision making.
Neighborhood Program
Supports Portland's 95 Neighborhood Associations and 7 District Coalitions by providing organizing support, leadership development, and technical assistance to community volunteers.
- 2018 EPAP Grant and Municipal Partnership Project Awards
- City Notification Improvement Project
- Community & Civic Engagement Small Grants Program
- Demographics
- History of the Neighborhood System
- Neighborhood Articles of Incorporation
- Neighborhood Association Pages
- Neighborhood Business Associations
- Neighborhood Bylaws
- Neighborhood Directory
- Neighborhood District Coalitions
- Neighborhood Maps
- ONI Standards and City Code
- Training Opportunities and Resources
New Portlanders Programs
Integrating immigrants and refugees
Noise Control Program
The Noise Control Office is responsible for enforcing the provisions in the City of Portland's noise code (Title 18 ), helping to resolve citizen's noise concerns and assisting with noise variance applications.
Public Involvement Best Practices Program
Builds support of public involvement processes citywide that are more accessible to the community