BOB BENSON © 1977Binda Colebrdok Page 32 RAIN November/December 1985 Pacific Cascadia Bioregion Report Join the Pacific Cascadia Correspondents Network WANTED: Individuals living in the region roughly bounded by the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean who are in touch with innovative local projects and other news of region-wide significance to correspond with magazine editors with interests in same. Because our bioregion report seeks to highlight grassroots projects and activities, which are by nature low profile, we recognize that we could be more effective in our mission if we were in regular correspondence with people who live in the communities of our region and are in contact with a wide range of activities in their communities. To that end, we are creating the Pacific Cascadia Correspondents Network. We would like to get at least one correspondent in each major city in the region, and some in smaller communities, too. Network members enter into a mutually beneficial (some ecology- minded types might call it “symbiotic") relationship with our magazine; I ■' We get responses to questionnaires we periodically mail to you, which will give us names and addresses of interesting projects and other relevant news, and at least one report per year for publication in our magazine. You get a free subscription to RAIN, the chance to see your writing published, and a chance to inspire and inform people of this region and others with news of good work. We also encourage those who see themselves as good community- watchers, but perhaps not good writers, to contact us. We can make arrangements with you, too. Interested? Contact Pacific Cascadia Correspondents Network, RAIN magazine, 3116 North Williams, Portland, OR 97227; 503/249-7218. Washington State Employees Give at the Office As of October 1985, for the first time ever, Washington State employees have the chance to make contributions to the Women's Funding Alliance and other charities through the convenient mechanism of payroll deduction. The Women's Funding Alliance is a new, innovative, and efficient mechanism established to provide a permanent funding base for women's programs in King County. It is a coalition of nine organizations formed and controlled by women providing essential services to women and girls throughout King County. For the past two decades, there has been a battle throughout the nation over whether charitable organizations should be able to solicit contributions from employees in the workplace and whether employees should be able to make those contributions through payroll deduction. For the past 40 years, most employers have allowed only one charitable group, the United Way, access to such workplace solicitation. Recently, employers have been changing those policies in many public and private workplaces. They have done so because employees have asked for freedom to choose among the wide variety of groups providing essential services to American commu-
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