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Allocation Committee

The Portland Children’s Levy is overseen by a five-member Allocation Committee that operates under a set of bylaws and meets publicly to make funding decisions. It is composed of one Portland City Commissioner, one Multnomah County Commissioner and three citizen members: two appointed by the Mayor and one by the County Commission Chair. Currently, there is one vacancy.

Bylaws of the Portland Children’s Levy Allocation Committee (PDF)

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Charity Kreider

charityannkreider@gmail.com

Charity is a passionate public health and education professional with over fifteen years combined service leadership experience in the government, non-profit, and private sectors. She believes that building strong relationships is the foundation to collaboratively developing programs and policies that are both informed by science and guided by equitable community engagement. Charity is fiercely committed to racial, social, and economic justice. She has dedicated her career to eliminating health and education disparities and advocating to create systems and environments where all populations thrive.

Charity has been on a career pause as the primary care giver of two children, coordinating their complex health needs and advocating for a care system that serves and uplifts families. During that time, she volunteered for three political campaigns and continues to serve her beautiful community. Charity loves to hike and run in nearby Forest Park, cook for everyone, and share deeply meaningful conversations.

Dan Floyd

Dan Floyd

Chief Operating Officer and Co-Owner, Hood To Coast Race Series

dan@htcrelay.com

Dan is currently the chief operating officer and co-owner of Hood To Coast Race Series, President of Floyd Public Affairs, and recently co-founded a retail food brokerage called OnShelf Partners. He has served on and chaired many nonprofit boards including All Hands Raised, Providence Portland Medical Foundation, INCIGHT, Oregon League of Minority Voters, Friends of Baseball, and is currently the co-chair of the All Hands Raised Partnership Council.

Born and raised in Southeast Portland, he attended Portland Public Schools and Central Catholic High School. After graduation from Lewis & Clark College, he gained extensive experience in public affairs and government relations with the Northwest Grocery Association (NWGA) and Safeway Inc. He has consulted on numerous statewide and local grocery industry campaigns. Additionally, he’s been a paid consultant with Sunshine Division and currently with NWGA and Our Streets PDX.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he and Hood To Coast Race Series worked with Sunshine Division to create the Emergency Food Distribution Network, which has now safely delivered over 6 million meals to food-insecure Portland area families and individuals.

Dan Ryan

Chair, Allocation Committee | Portland City Commissioner

CommissionerRyanOffice@portlandoregon.gov | 503-823-3589

Dan Ryan took over as chair of the Allocation Committee in September 2020 from Mayor Ted Wheeler. Dan is very familiar and a long-time backer of the Levy, having spent much of his career in the nonprofit world, most recently as the CEO All Hands Raised and previously, as a Portland Schools Board Member. He is a strong advocate of the Levy’s missions and goals, and has worked with many Levy parnters over the years. Dan said he is specifically interested in Levy efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the community, and in its support of historically underserved children and families reaching their full potential.

“In these challenging times, the Levy stands firm in its belief that all children have an inherent right to thrive and prosper in our city — and that includes refugees, immigrants, people of color and the most vulnerable of our population,” Dan said. “The programs that the Levy support will continue to reach out and serve the disenfranchised so all Portland residents have the opportunity to thrive and prosper.”

Dan serves on the leadership advisory boards of Wells Fargo, the Portland Trail Blazers, and Trillium Family Services and the University of Oregon Alumni Association. Prior to All Hands Raised, Dan worked in the private, public and non-profit sector including positions at the Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland State University, Metropolitan Group, Virginia Mason Foundation, and New School University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon and did graduate-level work at New School University’s Graduate School of Management & Urban Professional.

Felicia Tripp Folsom

Empowering Leaders Executive Director, The Contingent

feliciatrippfolsom@gmail.com

Felicia has a long history of community involvement in equity, children and housing issues. She is the executive director of the Empowering Leaders program at The Contingent, a board member of All Hands Raised, an executive board member of the Portland African American Leadership Forum and chair of the Community Housing Fund.

She was previously executive director of the Emergence Foundation, as well as the former scholarship chair of Black United Fund of Oregon. She is a long-time supporter of the Portland Children’s Levy and its partners and is excited about the possibility of making transformational and positive changes in the community as a Levy Allocation Committee member.

Julia Brim-Edwards

Multnomah County Commissioner, District 3

district3@multco.us | 503-988-5217

As commissioner for District 3, Julia Brim-Edwards calls on her experience as a longtime East Portland community and business leader, parent activist, and volunteer to bring people together to find solutions to Multnomah County’s most urgent problems. In addition to her role on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, Julia also sits on the Portland Public Schools Board, having served one term from 2001-05 and another starting in 2017 through the present day.

Julia has lived in Southeast Portland for more than 45 years, attended Glencoe Elementary, graduated from Washington-Monroe High School, and earned a BA from Oregon State University. She is a six-sport athlete, has been inducted into the Portland Interscholastic League Hall of Fame, and was a co-founder of the PIL Foundation, which supports equitable access for all students to middle and high school sports. In 2016, she was appointed by the Governor to serve as a Board Trustee for Oregon State University and recently was a Board appointee to the team that recruited and hired the new OSU President, Jayathi Murthy.

She and Randall Edwards have raised three children in Southeast Portland, and as parents, they both participated in their kids’ school communities, including 18 years of PTA and Site Council meetings and volunteering in the classroom and with athletics.