CN! project Rain City Slam presents it’s 2019 Grand Slam featuring legendary poet Wil Gibson. This is Rain City Slam’s most fierce competition of the year!
Did you know that we support grassroots projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana?
Join us, other awesome Cascadians, and climate activists around the world in signing the petition asking the Nobel Foundation Board to create a new Nobel Prize for the Fight Against Climate Change NOW!
Great Northwest Productions, a CN! nonprofit family member, presents an art & music series, filmed & recorded in unique locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Nourishing Neighbors is a "pay-it-forward" program that lets patrons of local businesses donate towards the next meal for a community member in need.
Join The Duncan Connection, a project of CascadiaNow!, on a morning social walk around the Mount Baker neighborhood on Lake Washington in Seattle every Sunday through the end of October.
CascadiaNow! is an exciting place for interns from all over the bioregion to learn the inner workings of a small, grass-roots non-profit organization. Internship opportunities vary, but we will work with you to make sure that your passions and skills are utilized to help energize the Cascadia social movement!
Our internships are offered typically at least one academic quarter, either for individual study or for school credit. You may be asking yourself, "Do I have to be in school to participate in a CN! internship?" Nope! We welcome people of all ages, experiences, backgrounds, and skill sets to join the team and create projects that both the staff and intern will find mutually beneficial.
Below are a few of our current internship offerings:
CascadiaNow! seeks a motivated intern with a strong work ethic to document all finance and administration workflows. This position will report to the Associate Director and will have a unique opportunity to help formalize the operations of a nascent nonprofit.
Minimum time commitment: 8+ hours/week for three months
Duties include:
Shadowing the Associate Director to learn all current finance and administration workflows
Making recommendations on workflow improvements
Formalizing workflows in an easy-to-navigate document
Conducting research projects related to human resources best practices
General administrative tasks as needed
Required skills:
Proven ability to work independently and meet deadlines
Close attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communication
Successful candidates will have an interest in nonprofit management as well as bioregionalism and/or the Cascadian social movement.
The CN! Outreach team is looking for a tech savvy social media guru to help streamline our branding and increase our online presence! This position will report to the Director of Programming and Outreach and will have the opportunity to grow our ever-expanding network across the bioregion.
We ask for a time commitment of 8-10 hours a week.
Duties Include:
Required skills:
A successful candidate will have an interest in social media management as well as bioregionalism and/or the Cascadian social movement.
The CN! Outreach team is looking for a passionate graphic design intern to help us with new Cascadia driven programming projects! This is a fantastic opportunity for an up and coming graphic designer looking to add to their portfolio, while also having their work displayed to a large online audience! The Graphic Design Intern will report to the Director of Programming and Outreach.
We ask for a minimum time commitment of 8-10 hours a week.
Duties Include:
Required Skills:
A successful candidate will have interest in pursuing a career in graphic design and a passion for bioregionalism and/or the Cascadian social movement.
CascadiaNow! seeks an intern with both a sense of visual story-telling and a knowledge of database design. This person will define and build a searchable visual library that is scalable for our future growth. This position will report to Development Director and will be given freedom to incorporate their own ideas and experience into structuring a highly-intuitive library.
Minimum time commitment: 8+ hours/week for three months
Duties include:
Required skills:
Strong candidates will be able to demonstrate awareness of the Cascadia bioregion, and describe how this internship supports their career goals.
CascadiaNow! seeks an intern who is interested in contacting HR departments throughout the Pacific Northwest electronically and by phone. This person will create an internal searchable list of organizations which offer “matching” for employee donations of time and/or money.
Minimum time commitment: 6+ hours/week for four months
Duties include:
Required skills:
Strong candidates will be able to demonstrate awareness of the Cascadia bioregion, and describe how this internship supports their career goals.
BENEFITS TO INTERNING WITH CASCADIANOW!:
A unique perspective on the inner workings of a blossoming grassroots nonprofit and social movement.
Networking opportunities with many passionate Cascadians!
Professional references upon successful completion of internship.
Lots of free stickers.
Do any of these sound like YOU? Fill out the form below!
CascadiaNow! is excited to share that the Seattle March for Science, one of CN's newest fiscally sponsored projects, was featured on the front page of the Seattle Times along with a picture of Cascadia Arts Collective members Erin Fox, Alan Sato and Eric Lobdell at work on the Resistance Rover, taking place at the Cascadia HQ (under construction).
Spokane began and continued their Cascadia meetings throughout the month of June. The meetings thus far have been pretty informal and are mostly geared towards getting acquainted with those interested in the idea, as well as working out organizational foundations. For those interested, they meet every other Friday at the Riverside Park by the Post Street Bridge.
More information and directions can be found on our Calendar events page or contact Patrick Adams directly at patsamorionadams@gmail.com
Growth in the idea of Cascadia continues to grow throughout the greater Portland area and we’re excited to announce new student coordinators at both Portland State University and Portland Community College.
Those interested should contact:
PCC contact Benjamin Bricker: Benjamin.Bricker@pcc.edu PSU contact Ellona: cascadianmycelium@gmail.com or our general Portland coordinator Lumen: lumen@riseup.net
If you’d be interested in becoming a regional coordinator for Cascadia Now! or starting your own chapter, feel free to email cascadianow@gmail.com or our visit our http://cascadianow.org/get-involvedpage.
A CascadiaNow member from Seattle University has released a great 5 minute documentary that provides a nice introduction of the Cascadia movement.
The short educational film by Kelton Sears is about the Cascadian movement, its origins, its ideas, and its presence today. The video features three interviews with members of the Seattle Cascadia Now! chapter from their May 19th meeting.
The video can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/nB7v5TmAYp8
If you would like to get involved with the Seattle chapter, they meet biweekly on every second Saturday, and you can find more information on our calendar page here: http://www.cascadianow.org/ai1ec_event/seattle-cascadianow-meetup/?instance_id=2638
or directly from their website at: seattlecascadiaproject.org
Beginning in Seattle and Portland and spreading wherever people are interested, Cascadia Now! has started an agitprop campaign. 11x17 black and white posters have been spreading through different neighborhoods in Seattle, while stickers, banners and color origami pamphlets have been appearing in various areas around PDX.
Since the campaign has begun, the http://reddit.com/r/cascadia group has been adding about 100-200 members per week, and pictures continue to filter across Twitter and Facebook of folks randomly stumbling across the idea.
It will be our goal to create a public agitprop and art gallery hosted through our website, where everyone will have access to original PDF’s and PSD files, alter, upload and add pictures of the final product in an open gallery. We’ll be working on this in the months to come.
The Doug flag is the symbol of Cascadia and a new batch of Cascadia Flags have arrived.
Those interested should send $23.50 to cascadianmycelium@gmail.com using either Paypal or Wepay.
The flags are 5′x3′ nylon and will be shipped out as soon as possible, except for between the dates of June 19th to 25th. A portion goes to supporting Cascadia Chapters.
Designed in 1994 by Portland native and professor Alexander Baretich, it can increasingly be found in cities throughout the Pacific Northwest and is becoming a common sight at soccer games, occupy protests and of course, on locally made microbrews (among our favorite, the Secession IPA or Cascadian Dark Ale).
The blue of the flag represents the moisture rich sky above and Pacific ocean along with the Salish Sea, lakes and other inland waters. Our home is of continuous cascading waters flowing from our sky and mountains back to the Pacific. Cascadia is a land of falling water from the Pacific to the western slopes of the Rockies and Cascades where water cycles as vapor and then rain and snow to run through creek and river back to the Pacific. The white represents snow and clouds and the green to represent the evergreen forests and fields of the Pacific Northwest. The lone standing Douglas Fir symbolizes endurance, defiance and resilience, named for explorer David Douglas, the first written account of the bioregion as a land of cascading waters and from where our primary mountain range takes its name. All these symbols of color and icon come together to symbolize what being Cascadian is all about.
