Always a west coast gal, Amy has happily called Portland home for three years. After graduating with a B.A. in English, focusing on feminism in literature, Amy traveled the coast making stops to work at a publisher of health promotional pamphlets (Santa Cruz, CA), have a baby and work at a coffee company (San Francisco, CA), start a card and t-shirt business (Seattle, WA), and work/volunteer for a number of nonprofit organizations, most recently in the queer arena (Seattle and Portland). Amy came to B-Word/Bitch in May 2007 after working at Equity Foundation, a foundation granting to queer, under-served and non-traditional organizations, to coordinate fund development and outreach efforts and has since evolved to do organizational development and financial management as well.
As a self-proclaimed nonprofit junkie, Amy currently serves on the Board of a domestic violence organization in Portland and volunteers her time supporting a variety of organizations in the area, such as Q Doc, the country's first Queer Documentary Film Festival.
Amy believes that nonprofit organizations don't have to lose their politics to grow and expand and also believes a goal of many nonprofits should be to work themselves out of a job, because that means you've achieved your mission. Amy lives in SE Portland with her family and loves to cook, read, hike, play cards, and go to the movies.
Favorite color: chartreuse or chocolate brown or tangerine
Turn-ons: well-read, outspoken, good hearts, good hair
Turnoffs: greed, apathy, intellectuals with attitude
Anyone out there have summer reading suggestions for our on-line readers? Non-fiction and fiction....? graphic novels? essays? bring it all on.
My gal, my son and I are heading out on a roadtrip this Sunday to a little cabin in Montana for a week of reading and relaxing and I would love to take a stack of reader suggested books with me, as I am sure many of us would. Then maybe we could write reviews and post them to this post as comments?
Keep those book ideas coming. Everyone should have (and have access to) a good book on their nightstand.
Over the past year at B-Word/Bitch we have been talking about growing. And doing some growing, too. But within these discussions there are some fundamental questions that not just B-Word contends with, but many, if not most, non-profits.
When is enough, enough?
When have we grown enough? How do we stay grassroots and evolve? When is the evolution over?
I was about a month into my job at Bitch and seeking meetings with many who are closest to B-Word's heart. I had the pleasure of meeting the individual who wrote this pitch about a year ago in a Seattle coffeeshop. Her words have blown us away and got us thinking about raising money and the values around procuring donations, sponsorship, planning events/fundraisers and grant funding and different ways to get folks engaged enough in our work to make a contribution.
B-Word/Bitch magazine is thrilled to announce our first lecture series, “Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture,” a four-evening series made possible by the generous funding of the Oregon Council for the Humanities! We are so happy that we've been dancing around the office. And then panic set in because we need a confirmed line-up of folks to speak!
So, I thought I'd share our potential speaker list, the folks we'd LOOOOVE to partner with and see what y'all have to say about it. Drumroll please.............
New arrival on the B-Word/Bitch doorstep today: Out Traveler : The Standard of Gay Travel. After briefly thumbing through the Fall 2008 issue, it appears (note: strong generalization appearing soon) to be a tool for upper class, white gay males with articles such as "Hawaii's Polysexual Past" or "Art Hotels: Find inspiration among the many shades of gay at these gallery-style sanctuaries." Huh.
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