The AJC Neighborhood Association always welcomes volunteer help, and our current vacancies/needs are listed below. Whether you’d like to help with one of these or have a totally different idea on how to contribute, please get in touch!
NOTE: Some of these positions have “Portland” in their names or have something to do with Portland, but you do not need to live in the Portland portion of AJC to fill these roles.
Current Needs
Chair
We’re seeking a new Chair to help steer this ship! Duties include running the monthly meetings, presenting grant requests and other issues for discussion, liaising with city governments as needed, and other general leadership tasks. Please reach out if you have other questions about what this role entails!
Public Safety & Transportation Representative
Our current Public Safety & Transportation rep is looking to step down in the next year or so, so we’re hoping to get someone (or multiple someones!) to fill his shoes. Duties include attending public safety and transportation meetings, presenting AJC neighborhood concerns and queries at those meetings, and keeping the AJC neighborhood association informed of projects and issues.
Portland District Four
At the beginning of 2025, Ardenwald-Johnson Creek became part of Portland’s District Four. We would welcome a volunteer to be a point of contact between AJC and the District Four Coalition. This person would represent AJC at meetings of the District Four Coalition, report back to AJC any of the Coalition’s requests, initiatives, etc., and be a general liaison between the two groups.
Grant Requests
If you know how to find open grants and/or write an effective grant application, we would love to get you on board. To finance our August Concerts and other neighborhood initiatives, we’re always looking for fundraising opportunities. This person would help with searching for grant sources and the composition and submission of necessary paperwork.
Concert Support
In addition to fundraising for our August Concerts in Ardenwald Park (see Grant Requests above), we have plenty other opportunities to support the many facets of organizing these concerts, such as:
- Advertising: Finding and implementing various ways to get the word out for our concerts and increase attendance.
- Permitting & Insurance: Navigating and securing the necessary permits and insurance required for these events.
- Raffle Support: Gathering prizes, handing out raffle tickets, and/or announcing the winning tickets to help the raffles run smoothly and help draw more attendees to the concerts.
Land Use
The Land Use committee reviews upcoming land use pre-applications and Type 2 & 3 applications for building and development projects in the neighborhood. If you have knowledge about (or interest in learning!) the land use process for both Portland and Milwaukie, we could use your help. The main goal of the Land Use committee is to review and discuss any issues or concerns that may arise from a proposed plan or project within the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek Neighborhood District Association.
Arts
The AJC Arts committee serves as a liaison between the neighborhood and both Milwaukie’s Arts Committee and Portland’s Office of Arts & Culture to coordinate public arts initiatives and information between AJC and its city governments.
Membership
The Membership committee focuses on ways to recruit AJC neighbors to get involved with the neighborhood association. The more volunteers we have, the greater our ability to enrich the neighborhood with resources and events.
Graphic Design
We can always use an artist’s help with designing posters, lawn signs, t-shirts and other swag for fundraising, and probably other things we haven’t thought of yet. This person would create compositions meeting the requirements of each project and deliver artwork in the necessary file format(s).
Portland Coyote Crew
The Portland Coyote Crew (a partnership between the Humane Society of the United States and a number of Portland-area nonprofits) pursues ongoing learning about urban coyotes and educates the public on how to keep people, pets, and coyotes safe. Volunteers will learn about urban coyotes from experts and pass that education on to the public via flyers, lawn signs, and presentations to the Neighborhood Association about how we can better coexist with coyotes.