Skip to Main Content View Text-Only

The City of Portland, Oregon

Community & Civic Life

Promote the common good

Main: 503-823-4519

City/County Info: 503-823-4000

TDD: 503-823-6868

1120 SW 5th Ave, Suite 114, Portland, OR 97204

Working documents for ONI BAC deliberations

Below are support documents to help guide process - facilitation and deliberations - of the ONI Bureau Advisory Committee regarding funding equity allocation formula and DCL program expansion discussions during fiscal year 2013-14, July 2014 through June 2015.


Budget Equity Assessment Tool - City of Portland

A general set of questions to guide city bureaus and their Budget Advisory Committees in assessing how budget requests benefit and/or burden communities, specifically communities of color and people with disabilities.

Community Connect: What successful implementation looks like

What successful implementation looks like/outcomes if Community Connect's Five Year Plan is successfully implemented. Jan. 2008, page 13.

Description of key elements in report on coalition equity funding

Description of key elements in report outlining research and agreement by the directors and board chairs of the seven Neighborhood Coalitions on what would an equitable funding formula look like distribution of additional resources.

DRAFT - Civic engagement work ONI funds

DRAFT - Civic engagement work ONI funds across all partner organizations

DRAFT - Comparative statistics for ONI civic engagement partners

DRAFT - Comparative statistics for civic engagement work across all ONI partner organizations.

Draft schedule for year-long BAC process

Proposed schedule for year-long ONI Bureau Advisory Committee deiberations on equity funding formula and DCL program expansion.

DRAFT shared values for developing equity in ONI budget

DRAFT concepts drawn from Nov. 17, 2014 BAC mtg when we brainstormed ideas for our shared values for developing an equitable budget for ONI's civic engagement programs. To be considered at Jan. 12 ONI BAC mtg.

FY 2014-15 ONI Requested Budget Add Package Summary

At the Dec. 1, 2014 ONI BAC mtg participants asked to see where we left off the previous year's budget deliberations to help inform our discussion about gaps in our civic engagement programs. Attached are the priorities the BAC adopted in Jan. 2013.

Ground Rules - ONI Bureau Advisory Committee

Ground rules agreed to for the FY 2013-14 ONI Bureau/Budget Advisory Committee (BAC) deliberations.

Ideas for ONI partner retreats re: BAC equity discussion

Suggested questions to help frame early caucus meetings of ONI CNIC partner grantees to encourage reflection on values - why we do this work, program and budget needs, and what equity looks like to help inform and focus ONI BAC meetings re: equity funding

ONI Goals, Value and Bureau Advisory Committee goals

Goals and values for ONI and its Bureau/Budget Advisory Committee (BAC)

Questions to consider when evaulating for equity - City

Questions for city bureaus to consider when evaluating programs, policies, and or procedures for equity impacting communities of color and people with disabilities.

Questions to gude equity initatives - County

Critical thinking in action: Questions used by Multnomah County for guiding equity initatives.

Report on Increasing Equity in Neighborhood Coalition funding

Report outlining research and agreement by the directors and board chairs of the seven Neighborhood Coalitions on what would an equitable funding formula look like distribution of additional resources.

Summary of possible data sets available to ONI BAC

Summary of possible data sets available to ONI BAC for funding equity models, distributed at June 2015 BAC mtg.

Who We Are and What We Do - Chart

PDF - Chart Template description of ONI partner/grantee organizations and types of work ONI funds. To be completed as exercise as part of ONI BAC mtgs. December 2014.

Working definition of equity for ONI BAC

Proposed working definition of equity for ONI BAC deliberations on creating an equity funding formula.