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  • April 21, 2021
  • 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Zoom

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Shared Prosperity Initiative


Speaker: Elizabeth Kennedy-WOng
Port of Portland


In a recent employee Town Hall, Port of Portland Executive Director Curtis Robinhold spoke about how the Port was founded in supporting people with existing businesses and wealth. 100 years later, they realize their responsibility to expand the access to wealth to the people and communities whose work and homelands enabled the wealth creation of colonizers. 

These individuals and communities bore the burdens — physically, environmentally, economically, and socially and did not share in the benefits. They have taken the important first step of recognizing that Black, Indigenous and People of Color have a right to share in the benefits of our industry, now we need to work with those communities to understand what shared prosperity looks like for them.

Elizabeth Kennedy-Wong, Community Engagement Manager, is coming to our Town Hall meeting on April 21, 2021, to have a conversation on how we see their “shared prosperity initiative” may be implemented. There are no defined programs in place to put a stamp of approval on. This is a beginning discussion.  

They are looking for your ideas. It's a changed strategy for them, and they are starting a conversation with their neighbors about what we need and get to know us better, and also to let us know them better.

Please come to the April 21st meeting to help start the conversation from a small business perspective.

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