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RISE Named “Oregon Top Workplace” for Fourth Consecutive Year
For the fourth consecutive year, RISE Partnership has been named an Oregon Top Workplace! Awarded by The Oregonian, the Top Workplace award is given to Oregon employers who demonstrate outstanding workplace qualities as determined by an anonymous employee survey. RISE...
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RISE Named “Oregon Top Workplace” for Fourth Consecutive Year
For the fourth consecutive year, RISE Partnership has been named an Oregon Top Workplace! Awarded by The Oregonian, the Top Workplace award is given to Oregon employers who demonstrate outstanding...
Announcing Care Pathways by RISE
RISE Partnership is excited to announce the launch of the Care Pathways website! This new resource from RISE Partnership is designed to support and guide care providers as they start or advance in...
Essential Worker Healthcare Trust Improves Recruitment, Retention and Health Equity for Oregon Nursing Home Workers
RISE Partnership program Essential Worker Healthcare Trust (EWHT) was recently featured by the Healthcare Career Advancement Program (H-CAP) for its efforts in offering high-quality, low-cost...
RISE Partnership 2024 Annual Report
In 2024, RISE Partnership celebrated our fifth year of supporting the development, learning, and enrichment of care providers and public sector workers in Oregon. Read more in our 2024 Annual Report!
RISE Partnership Wins $2 Million Workforce Ready Grant to Strengthen Oregon’s Direct Care Workforce
RISE Partnership has been awarded a $2 million Workforce Ready Grant as part of Future Ready Oregon, a $200 million initiative passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2022. Administered by the Higher...
Angela Jelley: In-home Care Provider and Advocate
SEIU 503 in-home care workers take many different paths. Some work for a single family member, while others support a few different clients across a varied weekly schedule. Some maintain a full-time...
RISE Named “Oregon Top Workplace” for Third Consecutive Year
Every year, The Oregonian releases its list of top workplaces in Oregon and southwest Washington and, for the third consecutive year, RISE Partnership was named an Oregon Top Workplace! Awarded...
RISE Partnership 2023 Annual Report
In 2023, RISE Partnership celebrated our fourth year of supporting the development, learning, and enrichment of care providers and public sector workers in Oregon. Read more in our 2023 Annual...
RISE Named “Oregon Top Workplace” for Second Year
Every year, The Oregonian releases its list of top workplaces in Oregon and southwest Washington and, for the second consecutive year, RISE Partnership was named a Top Workplace! To determine its...
RISE Partnership Named One of Oregon’s Top Workplaces
Every year, The Oregonian releases its list of top workplaces in Oregon and southwest Washington and, for the first time since its formation in 2019, RISE Partnership was named a Top Workplace! To...
Uplift Oregon Featured in National Report
Uplift Oregon is a RISE Partnership program that exists to support strong public services for all Oregonians. The Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank based in Washington, DC, recently...
Rae Rawls Dunnaville on Her Success at RISE
Learn how Communications Innovation and Technology Analyst Rae Rawls Dunnaville is using her skills to support worker benefits and training with RISE Partnership.
Uplift Oregon 2021-2022 Annual Report
As a first-of-its-kind labor-management partnership, the founding partners of Uplift Oregon — the state of Oregon, SEIU 503, and AFSCME Council 75 — sought to address key issues facing the state...
Carewell Covers Medical Costs for Care Providers
In 2013, one in four Oregon homecare and personal support workers had no healthcare coverage. That’s why SEIU 503 members fought hard for the successful 2013-2015 homecare contract with the State of...
RISE’s Patsy Richards in the News
Patsy Richards, RISE's director of Long-Term CareWorks, was recently featured in articles on OPB.org and OregonLive.com for her work on a $200 million legislative package designed to support equity...
Introducing Uplift Oregon
In 2021, RISE Partnership launched Uplift Oregon, the program name for a labor-management partnership formed between the State of Oregon, and the unions SEIU 503 and AFSCME Council 75. Learn more...
Now hiring!
RISE Partnership is growing quickly! As an organization founded by union workers, we prioritize creating good jobs in a values-based culture in order to deliver outstanding benefits and training to...