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🔄 Auto-Renewals Now Process on Expiration Date Based on League feedback, auto-renewals will now process on a member’s expiration date instead of one year from the date of payment. Members who have already received a renewal notice under the previous system will renew on the date provided in that notice, but all future auto-renewals will follow the member’s expiration date. 🛠️ Additional Portal Updates Several additional improvements were made in response to League feedback:

Hai Nguyen Event Coordinating Chair, LWVOR Youth Council I first joined the League of Women Voters Youth Council looking for ways to become more politically engaged and to develop my own political context. Fast forward two and a half years and I’ve just returned from the League’s 57th Biennial Convention. I was there not only to discuss the future of the organization but to help shape it in their continuous fight. I worked alongside others to empower voters and defend democra

June was quite a month for LWVOR. We have been installing and orienting new Board members, adopted a new budget, are onboarding new staff, and had a number of very keen events (including a Communications Café with our Attorney General Dan Rayfield and the large contingent of 15 in-person delegates and observers at the 2026 National LWVUS Convention in Columbus, Ohio). Our Youth Council sent 4 delegate members to Convention. Chloe, Arya, Elizaveta and Hai were outstanding c

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Jean Pierce, Action Chair A report is now available for League members describing issues regarding Safe and Healthy K-12 Schools . This is the second of three parts of the K-12 study. You can find the report as well as consensus statements and a powerpoint summarizing the issues HERE or click on the Studies tab on the LWVOR.org website. Studying the reports and reaching consensus regarding issues is essential for the League’s advocacy efforts. Every action that the League

LWVOR has developed a simplified Volunteer Data Collection Form for Leagues to enter their event activities, volunteer hours, and other info

Jean Pierce, Action Chair Occasionally I am asked why the League engages in advocacy. Right from the start - when the League was first created, women were demanding the ability to vote in order to make their voices heard about issues important to them. At that time, the issues included child welfare, education, the home and high prices, women in gainful occupations, public health and morals, and independent citizenship for married women. LWVOR Action Committee members hold po

If your League has local events that you would like listed here, please send them to Lindsay LaPlante to be included below. ⭐LWV of Clackamas County LWV of Clackamas County Events Calendar ⭐LWV of Coos County LWV of Coos County Events Calendar ⭐LWV of Corvallis LWV of Corvallis Events Calendar ⭐LWV of Curry County LWV of Curry County Events Calendar ⭐LWV of Deschutes County LWV of Deschutes County Events Calendar ⭐LWV of Klamath County LWV of Klamath County Events ⭐LWV

Get your community ready to vote by celebrating the 2026 Civic Holidays! Click the links below to register your event or activity: September 15: National Voter Registration Day | The League has been the number one recruiting partner: let’s keep that trend going! Sign up now to receive free stickers, posters, and resources. October 5-9: National Voter Education Week | Give voters the tools they need to cast their ballots with confidence. October 20: Election Hero Day | Thank t

Lincoln County League Members Support Local Information Study Members of the League of Women Voters of Lincoln County recently partnered with the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication on a community information project focused on how Lincoln County residents access, evaluate, and use local information. As part of the project, League members helped design, distribute, and promote a countywide survey and participated in two c

Nominations LWVOR welcomed several Board members to join the State Board for terms beginning in 2026. Elected Director: Mark Kendall: President 2026-27 Elected Director: Jean Pierce: 2nd VP 2026-28 Elected Director: Linda Malardi: Treasurer 2026-28 Elected Director: Jodi Gill: Director 2026-28 Elected Director: Evan Tucker: Director 2026-28 Appointed Director: Justin Ludwig, 2026-28 LWVOR Board 2026 Executive Committee President Mark Kendall 1st Vice President Barbara Klei

Spring raced right on by in my garden, along with nearly half of the year! The seeds of change are now planted there and with the League of Women Voters of Oregon (LWVOR). Our Council business meeting, held in Salem this year, was attended by delegates from every local League with only one of our smaller Units not represented. Council is where we conduct League business that our bylaws require decisions by a majority of representatives of our entire LWVOR membership. We had a

🔧 Join/Renew Form Issue Resolved The portal's join/renew form experienced an outage for a brief period this month. The issue has been resolved, and members should now be able to join or renew without difficulty. Thanks to the Leagues that helped identify and report the problem. 👤 New Recent Member Updates Screen A new Recent Member Updates feature makes it easier to track changes to member records. The screen displays updates made within the last six months, including: Memb

For Immediate Release: May 12, 2026 The 2026 Oregon Student Mock Election Primary election was hosted again by the League of Women Voters of Oregon. For this election, we had 22 teachers registering about 3,400 students from 17 different Oregon communities, including (in alphabetical order) Albany, Corvallis, Dayville, Dufur, Eugene, Klamath Falls, Lake Oswego, North Bend, Oregon City, Pendleton, Pine Eagle Portland, Roseburg, St Helens, West Linn, and Winston. In some cases

April 30, 2026 Our Nation Today, our League community is sitting with a great deal of both sadness and resolve following the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais. With its ruling in this case, the Court has struck the final blow to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, rendering it inoperable against racial discrimination in redistricting. The League responded with a strong statement, warning that the decision “will turn back decades of progress toward securing a mu

📅 New Event Tracking Feature A new Events feature has been added to the portal to help track League participation in nationwide initiatives and better understand our collective reach. Leagues can now register activities (such as the Day of Action) directly in the portal instead of using external forms. Officers can submit events by clicking the new Events icon and entering the event type, contact, and email. Additional event detail fields (date, time, location, etc.) will be

The mid-year season is upon us and our LWVOR Council is only a couple weeks away, coming up 15-16 May. It’s not too late to consider attending in person. Marion-Polk League members are offering to lodge guests from across the state should you choose to come to Salem. What a great way to meet members you may have only been acquainted with! This year, we are going to review the status of our eight strategic objectives: clear and vocal branding, highlighting our voter service, g

The League of Women Voters of Oregon invites you to join us in Salem, OR for our 2026 Council! The event will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Salem, Oregon on May 15-16. This year, we will be offering a complimentary dinner reception with pizza and salad on Friday, May 15, at 5pm for all registrants. This networking event will also include a variety of topics or caucus tables. The business session, including voting, will take place from 9am-5pm on Saturday, May

A second invitation to join OSME went out to teachers the first week in April who participated in the past. With it came a few more registered teachers. At the time of this writing, we have about 3,300 students registered from 22 schools and/or districts. Compared to the 33,000 who registered in fall of 2024, this is a small turnout. Spring is very busy for high schools so it is understandable that many teachers just can’t give class time to a mock election. Our participation