Community Life Service Group

Activities in the Community Life Service Group:

  • The Sattva Social Club
  • The Needs & Care Group
  • The Engaged Buddhism 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:

 

Sattva Social Club

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 .

 

 

 

Needs & Care Group

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 .

 

 

KCC’s Program of Care

Use KCC Survey Data as a Practice Community of Care

Results of a sangha-wide services survey are accessible to all sangha members who complete the survey. We can all use the data to find and coordinate support for ourselves and anyone in the sangha.  To join, click here to complete the survey.

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. Anyone can set up a Meal Train page for coordinating meals support. 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.

Here are instructions for setting up a page under KCC’s Meal Train account.

 

 

 

Refer to the Portland Area Support Services list

If a sangha member needs more support with food, finances, aging, support groups, mental health, retirement, children’s needs, caregiver needs, legal issues, or good self-care in trying times, check out the Portland Area Support Services List.

Promote awareness of Villages.

Providing help and connection is their business!
Villages NW – Home  “ Our mission: “To create dynamic, intentionally inclusive, caring communities that connect, engage, and support older adults as they maintain active and purposeful lives.”
nevillagepdx.org – Northeast Village PDX is a vibrant and engaging community of older adults in Northeast Portland. Our members and volunteers share skills and expertise to create a better experience of aging.

Keep our resources current and share support and learning in community.

Sangha members can submit changes to their survey data to anyone on the Needs & Care Group. From time to time, we will make the survey available again, on the website and via the KCC newsletter, so that others can be included.
The Needs & Care Group will periodically review the links and resources on the Support Services List to try to ensure we have current information. You can help. Keep aware of resources that you or people you know access in the wider community to stay healthy, active, and connected, and to get by. Let us know what helps so we can add those resources to the Support Services List!

The Engaged Buddhism Group

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 respond as Buddhists. Many of us are engaging in the wider world in myriad ways, but the Engaged Buddhism group is not currently meeting. This group may be revived by interested sangha members who want to come together around an issue or activity. Talk to Tim or email .

 

 

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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