Columbia Riverkeeper

🚨 We're Hiring: Director of People & Culture 🚨⁠ ⁠ 🌍 Location: Portland, OR (Hybrid/Remote option available)⁠ 💼 Type: Full-time, Exempt⁠ 💡 Salary: $90,000 - $110,000, plus great benefits!⁠ ⁠ Are you passionate about people and culture? Columbia Riverkeeper is seeking a Director of People & Culture to join our leadership team. This senior role will partner with our Executive Director to cultivate an inclusive, supportive, and high-performance culture that aligns with our mission to fight for clean water, healthy communities, and a thriving Columbia River ecosystem.⁠ ⁠ Learn more: ⁠https://lnkd.in/grwjiaGi ⁠ #ColumbiaRiverkeeper⁠ #NonprofitJobs ⁠ #EnvironmentalJustice ⁠ #CleanWater ⁠ #PortlandJobs

By supporting the team at Columbia Riverkeeper, you advance critical outreach and education in river communities and online. ⁠ ⁠ To be clear, the outreach and education run two ways. We listen. We field tough questions that push us to dig deeper, from the community members who watchdog changes in their neighborhood (“I’ve noticed an increase in oil-train traffic”) to kids who ask tough questions (“Why do pipes pump pollution into the river we swim in?”) to concerned parents and grandparents (“Why is radioactive tank waste at Hanford still buried underground?)….⁠ ⁠ Read more: https://lnkd.in/giWhNv-3

From the classroom to the courtroom, Columbia Riverkeeper delivers big victories for clean water and our climate—and inspires the next generation of environmental advocates. We rely on donors like you to fight for environmental and climate justice.⁠ ⁠ Donate today and you could win big while making a difference. ⁠ - Anyone who supports Columbia Riverkeeper today is entered to win two ⁠ - Wing Surfing lessons from Big Winds in Hood River.*⁠ ⁠ Willamette Week is going all out today with SIX chances to win tickets to Pickathon 2025. Bonus prize: a seventh winner will receive a gorgeous vertical turntable from Music Millennium.⁠ ⁠ Can't donate? Share this post in solidarity of our mission or support by signing up at https://lnkd.in/gk3dsExC to be entered into our drawing. ⁠

2025 Summer Legal Internships: Columbia Riverkeeper is hiring two law clerks for summer 2025, one general law clerk, and one Hanford-specific law clerk. Applications due January 17.⁠ ⁠ Learn more & apply today! https://lnkd.in/gCn8aQp

The people who give are everywhere and they give in so many vitally important, tangible and impactful ways–not always financially, but most critically with a heartfelt desire to make a difference or simply to express their innate compassion.⁠ ⁠ Here are a few examples that illustrate why people give to Columbia Riverkeeper —> https://lnkd.in/gNz2jZi6

Columbia Riverkeeper teams with river communities and works in solidarity with Tribal Nations to fight for environmental and climate justice. We combine legal advocacy, grassroots community organizing, education, and creative communications strategies to engage and center people who rely on the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest. Together, we advocate for what we love—and celebrate critical victories for clean water, salmon, and our climate. ⁠ ⁠ Read more about your impact in 2024: https://lnkd.in/g5tPERKg

As a local nonprofit with a strong track record of making a difference no matter what political party is in power, our team will continue to fight the good fight. This work is more important than ever. In 2025, we will:⁠ ⁠ •Fight the fossil fuel industry because our climate and the Columbia depend on it.⁠ ⁠ •Work in solidarity with Tribes to restore the Columbia’s iconic salmon using science, the law, and community organizing.⁠ ⁠ •Push back on government proposals to shortcut cleanup at the most toxic place in America, the Hanford Nuclear Site.⁠ ⁠ •Stop toxic pollution by taking polluters to court and advocating for laws that protect everyone who relies on locally caught fish, clean air, and clean water.⁠ •Monitor water quality at popular swim beaches and lead dynamic, bilingual environmental education along the Columbia.⁠ ⁠ Read more: https://lnkd.in/getnupfS

Please consider donating to Columbia Riverkeeper: https://lnkd.in/g4rsG_xs

Columbia Gorge News Reports: Columbia Riverkeeper welcomes new board members: Jessica L. Black, Elaine Harvey, Ana Molina, and Vawter “Buck” Parker. ⁠ ⁠ "Columbia Riverkeeper works with people in dozens of communities—from rural to urban—who have the same goal of protecting clean water, fish, wildlife, and the places they love. Our new board members reflect the diversity of the communities we work in and bring decades of combined expertise to advance critical work for the Columbia and everyone who relies on it," said Lauren Goldberg, executive director for Columbia Riverkeeper. ⁠ ⁠ Read more: https://lnkd.in/g9XKrVEh

Looking into 2025: Columbia Riverkeeper will continue our strong commitment to working in solidarity with the region’s Tribal Nations to protect clean water, Columbia River fish, and the vibrant communities that depend on them. We intend to increase our Clean Water Act enforcement work in 2025 and continue to be a strong voice for progressive water quality policies at the state and federal levels.⁠ ⁠ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/de-VBS-4