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:
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. We plan movie nights, potlucks, presentations, Tara Dancing events and more. Have an idea? Let us know! Care to join us? We’d love it if you did! Contact or one of our members directly.
Sattva Social Club Members:
Carolyn Peck –
Kay Hartsock –
Linda Grove –
Mary Woods –
Peter Wood –
Phyllis Moses –
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 join the Needs & Care group, or to ask for support, send an email to any member of the Needs & Care Group. You may also contact .
Needs & Care Group Members
Carolyn Peck –
Cynthia Irvine –
Judatha Kline –
Peter Wood –
Susan Giese –
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. 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
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. We are a large group of sangha members taking action in the world, individually and together, for the benefit of all. Activities include Letter Writing for Vote Forward to get out the vote! We volunteer time and money to non-profits in Portland, and we build awareness of Climate Change, its disproportionate effects, and how to respond as Buddhists. We share our concern for social justice issues, our compassion, and our need to change our own minds as we work together. The Engaged Buddhism group meets on the fourth Sunday of the month at 2:00 pm on Zoom. To join email or connect with one of the contacts listed here.
Currently, members of the Engaged Buddhism Group are gathering to consider how we respond to the specter of climate change. We formed the Engaged Buddhism Book Study/Contemplation Group. Currently we are reading “Active Hope” by Joanna Macy. This group meets on the third Monday of the month at 10am on Zoom. Questions? Contact Judatha, Peter, or Sherry.
Engaged Buddhism Group Contacts:
Peter Wood –
Sarah Clark –
Sherry Bohannan –
Sonia Arion –
Judatha Kline –
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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