Cuts and Checks Scholars
For the past four years we’ve been partnering with neighborhood barbershops through Cuts and Checks™, our barbershop hypertension program. Our staff and trained patient ambassadors have checked thousands of blood pressures and referred hundreds of barbershop clients back to their health care providers for follow-up or to North by Northeast for insurance enrollment assistance and primary care. Earlier this year we expanded the program to include Cuts and Checks Scholars, which provides…
Safe Homes Healthy Homes Kickoff a Success!
We had a wonderful time welcoming community members and patients to our first Safe Homes Healthy Homes event in partnership with Metro! Guests could dispose of used needles/sharps and old medication safely, easily and for free thanks to Metro. Everyone was treated to great music and food, a food prep demonstration from NxNE board member Florence Jenkins, a green cleaning station, raffles for awesome prizes like Zoo passes and green cleaning kits, and information about employment with Metro.…
We are Family!
On June 2, we joined with over 400 community members, donors, patients, friends and family to celebrate, sing, laugh, share a meal - and raise money for NxNE at our 2018 Community Supper. What a joyful celebration it was! And what a fundraising success too, thanks to the generosity of our corporate sponsors and hundreds of individuals. We raised over $183,000, surpassing our goal by $36,000! Every gift – from a $5 raffle ticket to a $5,000 donation – will go toward our mission of making sure…
A New Cuts & Checks Partnership
We’ve long been fans of Jamaal and Christina Lane, and their Champions Barbershop, one of the first partner barbershops in our Cuts & Checks program. When Christina & Jamaal made their dream of opening a barbering school a reality last year, we started talking about how we could take our partnership to the next level...and so was born the Cuts & Checks Scholarship for Student Barbers program, the first partnership of its kind in the country! Our goal is to help revive the historical connection…
Welcome, Shane Hervey!
We are committed to supporting and encouraging young black doctors and medical students however we can. Earlier this year we had the opportunity to put that commitment into practice by inviting Shane Hervey, a first year medical student at OHSU, to do his clinical preceptorship here at NxNE. Raised and educated in both Portland and Orange County, Shane calls himself a California-Oregon hybrid. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 2015, he moved back to California to be close to…
Black Health Matters
Dear North by Northeast family and friends, Black Health Matters. Since 2006, North by Northeast has evolved with the changing healthcare landscape. Passionate and committed staff work every day to educate patients, provide access to culturally appropriate healthcare, and empower and engage our resilient community. I was so excited to learn about North by Northeast soon after it opened and am honored to have served on the board the past three years. Heart attacks and strokes, many of which are…