The Community Development Student Group

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Developing relationships between future community builders at Portland State University

We are CDSG.


Welcome to the website for the Community Development Student Group at Portland State University.


The Community Development Student Group is a group of students, supported by PSU Faculty, that develops relationships between future community builders as we seek to serve the University and the community in productive and fun ways. Many of us are majoring in Community Development as undergraduates in the School of Urban Studies and Planning at PSU but we also have students with other majors who are interested in strong communities, citizen participation and positive activism.


This student group is open to any student, but is mainly composed of Community Development majors and people interested in social justice, alternative economics, urban studies and planning, community health, community education and awareness, participatory decision making/democracy, and facilitation.


Be sure to join the Community Development List-serve!


Braindrops Northwest Student Symposium Now Accepting Applications


THE APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MAY 15TH!

Braindrops NW student symposium is a yearly presentation of the work that YOU, as students are doing to improve your communities. Braindrops NW is about the current impacts you're making in your area or ideas about how you are going to make an impact in the future. This year the event will take place here at PSU, on ...

CDSG Documentary Night

This Wednesday, February 24, the Community Development Student Group will be back for a second documentary night of the year! This time we're combining forces with the PSU Bicycle Advocacy Collective and Planning Club and we're all bringing you a Texas Sized movie night around transportation planning.


No Way! Two movies for the price of...Free! Pizza, beverages, veggies, and other accoutrement will be on hand ...

CDSG Presentation: Friday Jan 22 1:50pm Smith 294

CDSG Will be giving a presentation

Friday, Jan 22 at 1:50pm in Smith 294

about Community Building and Leadership.




Synopsis:

Leaders are not born, in fact; they often are ordinary neighbors next store. The most powerful leaders are supported by their neighborhood because vital neighborhoods play a significant role in enhancing our lives. When Robert Putnam wrote Bowling Alone, he addressed the fact that our social fabric ...

CDSG Hosts Documentary Night Featuring Film Trouble the Water

So we all want an opportunity to procrastinate before finals week while still feeling somewhat productive...so come to CDSG's first documentary screening of the year for fun, free food (pizza!), and discussion on Trouble the Water, an Academy Award winning film about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans' 9th Ward

Where: PSU Multicultural Center ( room SMSU 228)

When: Wednesday, December 2nd @ 7 p.m.

Why: Awesome people ...

The CDSG crew had a fun at Myron Orfield's talk on Regional Equity

Left to Right: Kayla, Ashley, Marisa, Claire, Jon

Left to Right: Kayla, Ashley, Marisa, Claire, Jon.

The CDSG made an appearance at Myron Orfield's talk about Regional Equity. It was fun and educational. The moderator even asked a question from a CDSG representative for the panelist discussion!

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