Oregon's Kitchen Table

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Share what you think about water quality and nutrient management:

What ideas do you have to reduce nutrient pollution in the water in your community and keep water safe and clean? The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) wants to hear from you!

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The image portrays a stylized illustration of a round wooden dining table with a single pedestal base and an orange-brown color. The table is surrounded by four dark blue chairs with green seat cushions. On the table, there is a candle with a white body and green holder, a blue bowl filled with colorful fruits, and a yellow teapot with a blue lid and handle.

Ways You Can Engage

Oregon’s Kitchen Table invites all Oregonians to share their ideas, opinions, and beliefs to improve Oregon and its communities. For us, all Oregonians means all Oregonians, and we want you to have a say in the decisions that affect your lives!

Everyone has a place at Oregon’s Kitchen Table.

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Community Engagement

Oregon’s Kitchen Table creates community engagement opportunities to allow Oregonians to influence the decisions that impact their lives. We offer many different ways for people to participate in these decisions.

Hatfield Futures

Hatfield Futures engages teams of Oregon high school students in generating innovative solutions for our most important societal, environmental, and economic issues.

Special Projects

Oregon’s Kitchen Table is committed to trying new and different approaches to bringing more people into public-decision making. We partner with other Oregon organizations who hold this same commitment on a variety of Special Projects.

What’s Going On at the Table

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Share what you think about nutrients and water quality in Oregon

What ideas do you have to reduce nutrient pollution in the water in your community and keep water safe and clean? The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) wants to hear from you today over at Oregon's Kitchen Table!

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Apply Now: Hatfield Futures 2025

Applications are now open for Hatfield Futures 2025! Using the year 2050 to spark our collective imagination, the Hatfield Futures Project invites up to six teams of high-school students from across Oregon to envision Oregon’s future and generate proposals to address important social, environmental, and economic issues.

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Hatfield Futures Showcase 2024

On Saturday, March 23rd, 2024, Oregon's Kitchen Table held the second Hatfield Futures Showcase and it was amazing! We gathered at the Native American Student and Community Center at Portland State University. Over 120 elected leaders, principals, college students, community organizers, and friends and family from across the state who joined us to listen to students’ ideas for shaping Oregon’s future.

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