Welcome!
The Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Association helps organize and educate people as they engage with Portland city government. Our meetings are open to all, and membership is free and automatic for anyone who lives or works in the neighborhood.
Mt. Tabor/N. Tabor Neighborhood Cleanup 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Unity Spiritual Center of Portland Parking Lot, SE 47th and Stark
Start gathering your junk! Our annual neighborhood cleanup is fast approaching. The Mt. Tabor and N. Tabor Neighborhood Associations (NTNA/MTNA) are working together again this year to host our joint cleanup event. The cleanup is a great and convenient way to get rid of clutter and junk in your home. Click here for more information about the event and what we will and won't be able to take at the cleanup.
MTNA Annual Meeting/Board Election -- Wed., May 21, 2025 -- 7 p.m. -- Hybrid
The MTNA will hold its next monthly meeting on Wed. May 21, 2025. The MTNA Annual Membership Meeting is from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. followed by the MTNA Board Meeting from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. Community members are welcome at both. You can participate in person by coming to Taborspace at SE 55th and Belmont (downstairs in the dining room) or online via Zoom. To view the meeting agenda and to access the Zoom link, visit our Meetings page.
If you are interested in serving on the MTNA Board, let us know by Wed, May 14, 2025. Just send us a message at contact.MTNA@gmail.com. Active MTNA members who have attended at least two MTNA meetings in the last six months are eligible to run for a board position. If you don't meet these qualifications, contact us anyway! The MTNA Board can appoint new board members at any time of the year.
1918 Mills Open Air School building is being deconstructed
The historical 1918 Mills Open Air School building at SE 60th and Stark is being deconstructed by the Portland Housing Bureau (PHB). At some point, PHB will redevelop the site for affordable housing. This site also is where two earlier other Mt. Tabor Schools were located in the 1800s. Click here to read more about the history of the Mills Open Air School. Doug Decker prepared this history and shared it with community members during a number of community tours of the building last December.
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Rare Original 1892 "Mt. Tabor Views" Color Real Estate Brochure Found
The MTNA Neighborhood History Project group tracked down a rare, original color copy of the 1892 "Mt. Tabor Views" real estate brochure. Norm Gholston, with the Architectural Heritage Foundation, has an original copy in his personal collection. Norm scanned all 24 pages for us. The brochure includes amazing, detailed drawings of different views of our neighborhood in 1892 and descriptions of what the neighborhood was like back then. You can view the brochure here. Please contact the MTNA (contact.mtna@gmail.com) if you have any questions or would like more information.
Monthly Meetings
General meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, from 7:00 PM–8:30 PM. (No meeting in December.) Staring in June 2024 we will test new tech to allow us to meet both in-person at Taborspace AND on Zoom (find links under the "meetings" tab of this website).
Meetings are ADA-accessible and open to the public.
Every resident of our city has a Neighborhood Association they can call their own. To find yours visit: this City of Portland page.