A Message from the Director With this issue of RAIN, CUE is pleased to offer its contribution to the discussion of critical community issues. One of our primary goals is to help individuals and organizations in the Portland metropolitan area grapple with the rapid changes that affect our society, economy, and political system. CUE's board members, staff, and volunteers are engaged in a continuous scanning effort to uncover and understand the trends and community needs that will affect all of us in the coming years. RAIN is a vehicle for us to communicate with the broader public some of what we see and, we hope, to stimulate a dialogue that can lead to creative new ways of responding to the ceaseless change we all experience. CUE itself is undergoing change these days. In November, our director of the past thirteen years, Stephen V. Schneider, left CUE to pursue his own longstanding interest in the ministry. A decade ago, CUE was a small agency providing service to the religious community and offering occasional RAIN Volume XII, Number 4 Fall/Winter 1986 Editor Steve Johnson Designer Susan Applegate Interns Phyllis Manos Alan Saklofsky Andris Wollam Printing Argus Printing RAIN is published quarterly by the Center for Urban Education. RAIN subscription and editorial offices are at 1135 S.E. Salmon, Portland, OR 97214, 503-231-1285. Subscriptions arc $18 per year. Writers' guidelines are available for a SASE. RAIN is listed in the Alternative Press Index. Copyright © 1987 by the Center for Urban Education. No part may be reprinted without written permission. ISSN 0739-621x. Page 2 RAIN Fall/Winter 1986 conferences on emerging issues. Today, CUE is a community resource center: helping non-profit groups with management and technology, creating innovative social service systems for refugees and other populations, and airing controversial public issues for broad discussion and creative problemsolving. The leadership Steve has provided to CUE and the metropolitan Portland community will be deeply missed, but we look forward to hearing from him in other ways in the future. For CUE, 1987 will be a year of continued change and program innovation. With the generous help of the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust, in July we will begin a series of bi-weekly cable television shows designed to deliver social services directly to seniors in their homes. Our School of Non-profit Management schedule is being expanded to include classes in media relations and computer applications, and we will be offering direct management assistance to individual organizations for the first time this year. Oregon Community Foundation is supporting a new program to provide similar assistance directly to Portland's neighborhood associations. The community computer center will be offering expanded hours and the use of new computers in its desktop publishing service, and we look forward to offering a new database development service in the spring months. Apple Computer company has continued to provide generous support to the center, and with their help, we will be offering agencies access to a 24-hour bulletin board service this winter. CUE's refugee programs will continue to set a national standard for innovation in the delivery of integrated cash, medical, and social services, as our Refugee Early Employment Project moves into its second year. And we look forward to another year of growth for the Shared Housing project, as the problems for Portland's homeless population continue to grow, matched by the increasing need of low-income elderly to remain in their homes and receive financial or homemaking assistance. We are only able to undertake these ambitious projects with the support of individuals, foundations, and businesses in the Portland area. We have listed some of the organizations that have been particularly generous to CUE in 1986, and we look forward to expanding our support base in
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