Upcoming Community Connections Groups
A group of 10 visitors from Khabarovsk, Russia will be in Oregon from Thursday, May 17 through Thursday, June 7.Their program will focus on forestry management and corporate-social ecological responsibility. The visitors are representatives of local government, businesses, natural resource management organizations, leaders of regional think tanks and other stakeholders involved in social responsibility and community development. The majority of the program will be spent in Portland area; however, the group will be in Central Oregon from May 23- May 27.
A group of 10 from Azerbaijan will be in Oregon from Wednesday, July 11 through Wednesday, August 1. Their program will focus on rural finance and agriculture. Visitors are representatives from Ministry of Economic Development, NGOs dealing with banking, Ministry of Agriculture, and regional economic development departments. The majority of their program will be spent in Portland area; however, we plan to take the visitors for a four-day stay in Pendleton.