We’re All in this TOGETHER: Support Our Local Businesses

All Families Surrogacy, founded and staffed by experienced surrogates, is accepting applications for gestational surrogates! Apply by April 30^th to be eligible for a $500 bonus, paid upon signing a surrogacy contract with intended parents. Surrogacy is an amazing way to help someone create their family, while helping your own.

Join Portland Audubon’s stellar education team for afternoon adventures with nature and science! These small clubs of ten or less engage children ages 6-11 together with cool experiments, weird nature facts, and hands-on activities that kids can do with nothing more than paper, some markers, and their powers of observation. Cost: $9.95-$29.95

A-WOL Dance Collective is offering livestream and online classes such as conditioning, flexibility, dance, handstands, hooping, and more. A-WOL Livestream Classes All classes are donation based. Give what you are able right now, we are excited to have you in an A-WOL living room class!  You can also find fun quick videos of exercises to try on our instagram page.
A-WOL’s Fundraising Campaign

OPEN for personal phone shopping and social media phone shopping only, with curbside pick-up or delivery up to 3 miles. Current specials:  Subject to change follow us and join our newsletter on line to stay up to date! $5 OFF gift cards with $35 gift card purchase and higher. FREE Beanstalk stainless steel insulted water bottle with purchases over $75 while supplies last, $12 New Oaki Rainboots while supplies last.

New Patient Special – 50% off first visit (including necessary x-rays) with in-office donation to “With Love”  – The mission of With Love is to help foster families change the lives of children, ages 0-6, by providing resources that nurture dignity, hope, and community. [More information: www.MoversForMoms.com] Call 503.644.8844 to schedule. 

BB’s Camp Virtual Spring Break! Our team has been hard at work at creating virtual (live & interactive) events for your family to participate in during this extended time at home. We have a wide range of events for all ages (even parents!), so make sure to check out our calendar of events, for more information, including times and materials needed.

Blush Beauty Bar is offering curbside pickup, free shipping and hand delivery. The entire store is currently 25% off. Gift certificates available.

Classical Ballet Academy of SE Portland is offering interactive virtual dance classes for the month of April. Classes for 3 years old through adult. A set schedule of classes allow dancers to stay connected, stay active, and have something to look forward to during this time of social distancing. Join us for free, or help CBA stay afloat by giving a donation. Email director@classicalballet.net for more information. Our hope is that we can all keep dancing, even in small spaces.

Coding with Kids is converting all of our enrichment classes to Live Online. We have already helped over 1,500 kids keep their coding education going, despite of school closures. All of this in under one week. Their team rocks! The kids love it!

Resilience is the ability to bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Columbia Christian has been providing excellence in faith, character, and academics for over 70 years, and that hasn’t changed in light of COVID-19. Our students from Pre-K through high school are thriving with “Digital & At-Home Learning”

Girls Count is now providing online math workshops for girls in 3rd through 8th grade. They’ll be working through logic puzzles, word problems and brain teasers to keep your mathematical brains energized. Asking for a “pay what you can afford” fee. Private online tutoring will start start April 1^st. 

Hammer + Jacks is offering Portland porch deliveries & curbside pickup! Order online

Online Virtual Tech Camps from iD Tech just launched to help serve parents and kids who are social distancing at home right now. Structured, weeklong sessions start as early as next week. Students can build new skills, create awesome projects, and socialize with friends—all online!  Use the code TOGETHER to get $100 off.

Active Music with Jory’ is a YouTube live-stream show every Wednesday morning, 10 am Pacific Time, for young children.  Young children sing, dance, and explore with Early Childhood Music Specialist Jory Aronson on YouTube live-stream.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1J6-EYtmOLKQafvwoOD7Q
Or go to YouTube Jory Aronson songs

Mad Science is offering an online “after school program” on Facebook and they also have several science experiments for parents to do at home with the kids!

The Mittleman Jewish Community Center is live! Tune in for a variety of live programs including fitness classes, kid’s activities (like virtual camp), social events, and more. All events are free through Zoom or Facebook live. Check out tons of resources and the live events calendar at oregonjcc.org/at-home

Mud Puddle Toys & Books is offering local delivery within 5 miles of both stores! Visit our website to arrange for local delivery within 5 miles of our stores available on purchases over $50. We are adding more items every day to give you a better selection!

Northwest Children’s Theater and School offers a variety of resources and activities to keep kids engaged and interacting with the magic of theater from home, including online theater classes. Visit nwcts.org/updates, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for more fun for the whole family!

Piccolo Mondo‘s doors may be closed but they are still open for phone and online orders! Take $5 off any purchase with curbside pickup and $10 off a purchase of $50 or more (excluding LEGO) with curbside pickup. Just call them when you get there, pop your trunk and they’ll drop your bag in!

Pittock Mansion has launched a virtual tour and is giving families access to discovery program materials. All the materials for our Discovery Program for students are available in the PDF gallery portion of the virtual tour. This program is designed for onsite school visits, grades 3-4.

Play.Fit.Fun is offering a Birthday Party Package which includes:

• 5 or 8 planned party activities
• We supply clean/sterile equipment, delivered
• Play.Fit.Fun T-Shirt & wristband for bday kid
• Bday kid receives their choice of brand new basketball, frisbee, football or soccer ball!
• 1 1-Topping Family Size Pizza from Papa Murphy’s Pizza at Murray & Allen in Beaverton with 1 Mini Murph Pizza Package for the bday kid
• 1 Dozen Bundtini Mini Bundt Cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes

Package cost $150-$195

We’re bringing the STEM learning to you! Play-Well TEKnologies is hosting Facebook LIVE mini-lessons called Play-Well LIVE! Our lessons are totally free and are available every weekday at 10am PST/ 1pm EST. Play-Well LIVE is a fun, interactive way to connect with other kids, learn about STEM and build cool LEGO projects. All you need to do to join us is go to our Facebook page – at the correct time each weekday!

Portland Early Learning Project is creating enriching, fun, and educational Spanish videos for their students. Their range of content is astounding, and includes story times, lessons, songs, movement activities (like yoga), and games. These videos are wonderful options for at-home schooling. They’re currently accepting enrollments for the third term! 

For every $50 Portland Spirit gift card purchased you’ll receive a complimentary sightseeing voucher. Sightseeing vouchers will redeemable for:

• The Portland Spirit Sightseeing
• The Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler Sightseeing

The sightseeing vouchers will expire in September, 2021. The gift cards will never expire and are good for any of our cruises on any of our boats including onboard purchases.

Riverside Performing Arts is using Zoom to live stream their dance, music and acting classes as well as their performing arts preschool to connect with their students and give them a sense of community and stability. We are so happy to provide this service and see our students’ smiling faces

Soccer Shots Portland announced Soccer Shots On The Go, a new series of virtual soccer classes for families to participate in while home. Soccer Shots On The Go uses an expert-approved curriculum to get kids moving while having fun through age-appropriate videos. The weekly lessons are packed with soccer skills,
character development and creative ways to stay active.

Spielwerk Toys is open for “by appointment only” shopping M-Sa 12-5pm. They are also offering free shipping and curbside pickup. Discounted gift certificates: $50 for $45 and $100 for $85. These discounted GCs are good for any future purchase and will not expire.

Trackers is offering one-day pop-up camps to help out working families who need activities for their kids. You can read more (and register) here: https://trackerspdx.com/youth/pop-up-camps

Tucker Maxon School isn’t closed, we’ve moved online. Tucker Maxon is Portland’s premiere PreK to 5th grade school. Our teachers have transitioned to teaching with videoconferencing almost overnight due to COVID-19. We are using Facebook Groups, Google Hangouts and Classroom to work with students. We stand together even when we are apart.

Yuki Origami has posted a free instructional video on their facebook page. Check it out! Their publication, Super Cute Origami Kit ($14.99) is available at local stores: Green Bean Books, Collage and Books Around the Corner carry it, as well as on Amazon.