Ruth Scott Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

"Our board members brought a variety of opinions and experiences to a long-term planning retreat facilitated by Ruth Scott. With Ruth's expert guidance, we were able to identify and prioritize issues that were critical to improving our operations. Her warmth and humor smoothed over contentious areas, and her professionalism led us to the development of a.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

NW Portland

Revenue diversification and partnership development are the two primaries focuses of my work with this excellent organization. A top-tier partner of the Oregon Food Bank, Lift Urban Portland is a food provider for low income residents in NW and Downtown Portland. Their primary services include: a Food Pantry, delivered Food Boxes to the home bound.

Portland, Oregon

“Ruth came to HEAT Oregon with a strong recommendation that proved to be completely accurate! Her years and diversity of experience let her assess our needs and immediately begin strengthening our operation. Increased and diversified revenue dominated her time with us while she helped us decide how and what our next level was to be. The results of her work.

• “Ruth has the courage to tackle difficult community problems. She also has the ability to bring diverse groups of people together to effectively solve those problems.” -- Gale Castillo, Retired President, Hispanic.
• Formed and managed the Center for Innovative School Facilities that provided technical assistance and volunteers to assist Oregon's districts with finding facility funding, financing and savings. The mission of the.
• Conceived, research and developed Connecting with Students, an online training for teachers and mentors that builds relationships and helps reduce the drop-out rate.
• Researched and initiated Ready for School, an early learning project that was adopted and led by the Children’s Institute and resulted in 100% Head Start funding for 4 year olds.
• Investigated, developed consensus and launched the Diverse Civic Leaders project later adopted by the Portland Business Alliance and is today’s Partners in Diversity.
• Developed eVolvement, an online tool for engaging uninvolved and underrepresented citizens, providing government access prompting the resolution of neighborhood issues.

Portland, Oregon

• Conceived, advocated and implemented the Clean and Safe District, an economic improvement district (EID) that became the model for over 100 districts nationwide.
• Spearheaded the first of several Strategic Plans for Association for Portland Progress (now Portland Business Alliance) that developed consensus around priorities among public and private leadership with differing.
• Created the Portland Ambassadors and Downtown Foot Patrol to assist visitors, monitor street disorder, and discourage panhandling, aggressive behavior and provided connections to community services.
• Conceived, funded and oversaw Project Respond, a nationally recognized program to provide daily outreach and reconnection to social services for the chronically mentally ill.

Education record

Inspired by my English Literature teacher, my years in Hood River prompted creative thinking,work ethic (summers picking strawberries) and.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General

Three years as Year Book editor gave me hands on experience working with volunteers and leadership. This combined with a solid liberal.

Education record

Being a senior year transfer student caused me to learn change management skills as a young adult and opened the door to my first real job.