Activities in the Community Life Service Group:
Other groups comprising community life may find a home in the CLSG. The benefits are communication and support as needed from among all the KCC Service Groups.
Service Group Coordinator:
Debra Elisa Wohrmann
The mission of the Sattva Social Club is to support the sangha by creating opportunities to relax together and nurture supportive connections in the dharma. To propose an activity for the sangha that you would like to support, email .
The Needs & Care Group has created a Program of Care for the KCC sangha. The group will share learning, provide support, and build ongoing awareness and opportunities for KCC as a Practice Community of Care.
To ask for support, send an email to .
Use KCC Survey Data as a Practice Community of Care
Use Meal Train for coordinating help with meals.
Short term meals support is available to sangha members due to illness, surgeries, or other life disruptions. Through KCC’s Meal Train account, we can also schedule rides to appointments and care support at home. Cynthia Irvine, Debra Woerhman, and Judathe Kline are available to talk with you and create Meal Train Plus pages to support your emergent needs.
Upon request, sangha members who cook for each other may be reimbursed for up to $9 per meal they provide through Meal Train. Recipients may donate $1 to $9 through Meal Train for meals they receive.
Refer to the Portland Area Support Services list
Promote awareness of Villages.
Keep our resources current and share support and learning in community.
The mission of the Engaged Buddhism Group is to support social causes to reduce suffering and to develop Bodhicitta both on and off the cushion. Past activities includes writing letters for Vote Forward to get out the vote, volunteering time and donating money to non-profits in Portland, and building awareness of Climate Change, its disproportionate effects, and how we may respond as Buddhists. Many of us are engaging in the wider world in myriad ways, and all are welcome to join. Email .
Click here to read our latest meeting notes:
What distinguishes Buddhist activism from any other kind of activism?
–Excerpted and reworked from The Intersection Point: Buddhist Activism at the WTO by Diana Winston, Turning Wheel, Spring 2000 www.bpf.org
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A joyous new year to all! Climate Corner offers a suggestion the first week of each month for a small change we can make for our earth and all beings. As the new year dawns, we look back at the suggestions from Climate Corner, 2025.
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Karmaoke 2025 was a resounding success! Our second annual Karmaoke event took place on November 23rd, beginning with a Thanksgiving potluck and concluding with the dedication of $53,000 in pledged contributions to keeping the Dharma flowing at KCC for the benefit of all beings.
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A great gift to our Sangha was started some years ago with the occurance of daily morning meditations over Zoom. We want to appreciate and name the current people showing up regularly to offer this opportunity to others!