Welcome to Center for Intercultural Organizing

CIO is a diverse, grassroots membership organization working to build a multi-racial, multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights.

Quick Research Notes, Vol. 1

This the first in a new series entitled “Quick Research Notes,” which will focus on new research or data on immigrant & refugee issues. This week we’re looking at a report - “Undocumented Workers are Taxpayers, Too” -  just released by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) on undocumented immigrants’ tax burdens. Feel free to send [...]

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CIO Women’s Slumber Party

Title: CIO Women’s Slumber PartyDescription: Ladies! Slumber Party Time!! Remember when we were teenagers and we would spend the night at our best friends’ house and have a ‘slumber party’ staying up all night and doing makeovers, telling stories, eating all night and most of all just laughing and having a great time?! Well here [...]

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CIO’s Party Planning Committee is meeting this Thursday!

Want to put in some volunteer hours in a fun way? Then join us in planning our Annual Party. Expertise needed for this event is far and wide. Volunteer for the day of the event only or work on behind the scenes logistics in making this a successful event! We’re kicking off the process this [...]

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February First Friday gathering

Title: February First Friday gathering Description: Join us on our Next First Friday in February as we discuss as a community how we can be prosperous and support each other. We will have special guest speakers on what it means to bid for city contracts, the value of networking and how we do business as [...]

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Getting To Health Equity: Participating in Policy Change

CIO and its partner organizations are working on health equity policy in the Oregon State Legislature. Watch this video produced by Northwest Health Foundation and find out how … and why!

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Become a CIO Member

Become a CIO member and help create a stronger, more vibrant, more inclusive democracy. At the Center for Intercultural Organizing, immigrants, refugees and allies work across cultural lines to advance the rights and liberties of all. We are a vehicle for social justice and real change, welcome aboard!

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Oregonian Coverage of CIO’s Beaverton Organizing Work

From the Oregonain, “Community organizers said Tuesday night that they enjoy festivals and celebrations, such as the Party in the Park’s International Celebration pictured here. More needs to be done, they said, to provide fair and equal resources for ethnic minority groups.”

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CIO and Metro

The Center for Intercultural Organizing is proud to announce a new partnership with the Metro regional government & the Opt-In Panel, to make sure that our community has a chance to express its voice on issues facing the Portland area. We’d like to take a quick moment to tell you about Metro, the Opt-In Panel, [...]

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