VIDA Members

Our asset goal is homeownership. Siletz Reservation land is located in Siletz Oregon. Siletz has many services to help it’s members including a health clinic, self sufficiency support services, cultural center and a housing department. We currently have a Down Payment Assistance Program to help Tribal Members buy their first home. Along with the administrative department located in Siletz Oregon, we have three area offices located in Portland, Salem and Eugene to extend services to Tribal Members living in the valley.

Salem - Keizer CDC’s mission is to build community by stabilizing neighborhoods and empowering families. We create safe, high quality, affordable housing and provide families with opportunities and connections to community resources to achieve economic prosperity. Salem - Keizer CDC currently offers a variety of activities including, Rental housing, Homeownership Education, Financial Education, Micro-Enterprise Development Education, Individual Development Accounts and Resident Services. Offer all three asset-goals: Homeownership, Business, Education

Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services, a private nonprofit community development corporation, is committed to improving lives and strengthening neighborhoods through quality housing, homeownership, and economic opportunity and community partnerships. We offer the Valley IDA program for 2 asset goals: Homeownership and Education.

Clackamas County Social Services is a multi-service organization for low-income citizens of Clackamas County. Through a partnership with the Housing Authority of Clackamas County, we are able to offer IDA enrollment and case management to residents of public housing in Clackamas County. These IDA accounts can be used to buy a home or to pursue an education.

MIPO provides inventors and small business owners with consulting, trainings, and resources that focus on bringing their inventions to market as a means of diversifying Oregon's economy and increasing opportunities for solutions to societal challenges. MIPO works with entrepreneurs to move their inventions and conceptional models toward commercialization or licensing ventures. By doing so, local communities will benefit from an increase in higher-paying jobs and better opportunities for products to enter the market that were conceived in Oregon. By partnering with the Avita Business Center, MIPO also provides small business assistance to local entrepreneurs, while focusing on business development, growth, and analysis. MIPO and the Avita Business Center are working together to support Inventors and micro businesses by offering VIDA for small business funding.

Our organization is a non-profit social service agency. Our Mission Statement proclaims that “Lutheran Community Services Northwest partners with individuals, families and communities for Health, Justice and Hope” and it also is the guiding principle for all services delivered by LCSNW. Within the Portland Metro area our office focuses on delivery of services to an extremely diverse community. For this reason LCSNW has worked to assemble a staff that is culturally diverse and competent. At present more than 35 languages are represented by the staff of the LCSNW Portland office. The VIDA program seeks to uphold the agency mission to serve a multi-cultural community including those refugees and immigrants who experience various barriers to employment, education, and home purchases and repairs.

MIPO provides inventors and small business owners with consulting, trainings, and resources that focus on bringing their inventions to market as a means of diversifying Oregon's economy and increasing opportunities for solutions to societal challenges. MIPO works with entrepreneurs to move their inventions and conceptional models toward commercialization or licensing ventures. By doing so, local communities will benefit from an increase in higher-paying jobs and better opportunities for products to enter the market that were conceived in Oregon. By partnering with the Avita Business Center, MIPO also provides small business assistance to local entrepreneurs, while focusing on business development, growth, and analysis. MIPO and the Avita Business Center are working together to support Inventors and micro businesses by offering VIDA for small business funding.

Northwest Housing Alternatives creates opportunity through housing. NHA currently offers homeownership and education IDAs to current NHA residents.

Our mission supports individual success, family stability, and child well-being. With over 25 years of experience in social services, our competent staff and evidence-based programs and services include professional counseling, couple’s classes, parenting, money management, job readiness and placement, youth programs, healthy relationship education, and more. Services are offered in the greater Portland metro area in both English and Spanish.