Page 2 RAIN March/April 1985 RAIN Volume XI, Number 3 March/April 1985 Staff Rob Baird Ben Bishoff Madeline Dalrymple Steve Johnson Alan Locklear Steve Manthe Katherine Sadler F. Lansing Scott Contributors Susan Applegate Tom Bender Ralph Cavanagh Jack Churchill Carlotta Collette Clay Dennis John Harland Patrick Mazza Cecilia Ostrow Jim Stevens Mary Vogel Graphic Design Susan Applegate Printing: Argus Printing Typesetting: Irish Setter RAIN magazine publishes information that can help people lead simple and satisfying lives., make their communities and regions economically self-reliant, and build a society that is durable, just, and ecologically sound. RAIN is published six times a year by the Rain Umbrella, Inc., a nonprofit corporation located at 3116 North Williams, Portland, OR 97227; 503/249-7218. Subscriptions are $25/year for institutions, $15/year for individuals ($9.50 for persons with incomes under $6000 a year). For additional information on subscriptions and publications, see page 39. Writers' guidelines are available for a SASE. Editorial and advertising deadlines are two months prior to publication date. RAIN is indexed in the Alternative Press Index and New Periodicals Index. Members of the Rain Umbrella Board of Directors: E. K. Maccoll, Mimi Maduro, Maggie Rogers, Steve Rudman, Sumner Sharpe, and Michael Wells. Copyright © 1985 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be reprinted without written permission. ISSN 0739-62lx. COVER: Still Creek. Photo by Carlotta Collette. RAINDROPS By the time you read this, Rain Umbrella, Inc., the corporation that has published RAIN magazine since 1976, will be dissolved, and the magazine will be published by its new corporate parent, the Center for Urban Education. Rain Umbrella inherited its incorporation papers from the Full Circle Community Resource Center, a nonprofit group started in 1975 by Lane deMoll and Tom Bender. Coming full circle, as some of you might remember, in 1980, Rain Umbrella took on a joint project with the Portland Community Resource Center, to educate the local community about selfreliance. The Center moved in with Rain, and was renamed the Rain Community Resource Center. For several years, RAIN magazine was published in the midst of a flurry of local community projects and the daily operation of the resource center. Then, in 1984, after nearly 10 years in the same house, RAIN sought a new office. Fortunately, the Eliot Energy House had available space, and RAIN moved into its present location. To follow the full circle one more loop, it should be noted that before the Eliot Energy House existed, its parent · organization, RUNT (Responsible Urban Neighborhood Technology) had its office at Rain's old Victorian house. Over the years CUE and RAIN have worked on many projects together. In early 1984, discussions began about a merger of the organizations. About midway through this process, a new programmatic thrust of CUE emerged as the Information Technology Institute. The institute represents a consolidation of CUE's commitments to education and technical assistance in applications of information technology for nonprofits. The first major program of the institute, a community computer lab, is going to be open in March. The lab is being made possible by the generous support of Apple Computer Company's Community Affairs Program, the Oregon Community Foundation, and the Northwest Area Foundation. I have played several roles, hurrying over here (RAIN) to be editor, while also helping to establish the computer lab. It's been a rather exhausting lesson in patience and juggling. The pieces are coming more into view now, but we expect the dust to be unsettled for awhile. And just how can you, reader, expect all these changes to affect what you read? Well, not much if you expect an all-of-asudden change; but over a longer period of time hopefully you will see some major improvements. You can expect RAIN to remain bimonthly (we had considered a quarterly schedule) and to incr€ase its coverage of issues of common concern to all nonprofit groups. We hope to widen the contributor network, create an editorial board, and work with the Information Institute in finding new ways to bring you useful news and information. -SJ And now for the personal gossip. We have not yet introduced a couple of the newer names in our staff box. The first is Ben Bishoff, who came to RAIN a few months ago from Oberlin College. Actually, he's not officially a RAIN employee; he's a VISTA worker dividing his time between working with the Eliot Energy House and the Farmers Market. But he still managed to find the time to put together the section on children and nuclear war in this issue. · The newest person around here is our intern, Madeline Dalrymple. She will soon complete her Masters degree in Environmental Science from Washington State University. Her primary emphasis has been agricultural ecology. The rest of us are still plugging along. With our latest transitioning, things have seemed kinda crazy around here. But if that weren't the case, it just wouldn't seem like RAIN. -FLS Wanted: One editor. We are looking for a full-time editor/managing editor, to begin as soon as possible. Salary: $1215,000/year. Send inquiry and resume to RAIN by April 15. LOOK! RAIN IS GOING UP! Have you ever seen RAIN go up? Well, we haven't seen it happen since 1978. But since then we've seen everything else go up, so I guess it was inevitable. On May 1, our subscription prices will go up, not quite enough to cover seven years of inflation, but enough to pay the bills. Our new rates will be as follows: $18-one year, regular rate $12-one year, living lightly $30,two years $40-contributing subscriber $60-sustaining subscriber $500-RAIN patron and lifetime subscriber We invite everyone to subscribe, renew, and/or give gift subscriptions at our old rate through April 30.
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