About Us
AdoptOneBlock is first and foremost about our wonderful 4900 (and growing) Block Ambassadors who are dedicated to making our world cleaner and happier one block at a time.
Together we are a force for good for making our community what it can and should be. Our focus is rapidly implementing highly scalable solutions to make an immediate impact in our community that support our fantastic volunteers.
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Introduced a completely new way of volunteer engagement that is highly effective and efficient, enabling great land stewardship right out your front door.
Launched the first-ever online Community Cleanup Calendar. This is free and available to all nonprofits, neighborhood associations, affinity groups, our Block Ambassadors, and anyone else that wants to organize a cleanup event and free to all people who want to help. Easily searchable by zip code, event date, and the host organization of person, this tool will help anyone interested in cleaning up their favorite places.
Working with Venture Portland through a grant from the City of Portland, we created a separate version of our application that serves the needs of the retail business districts throughout the city. Each small business owner/manager/employee will be able to adopt their storefront block (linear vs square block) and receive enhanced cleanup supplies that include a graffiti removal kit, paint, and painting supplies delivered to their front door free of charge. This will make our neighborhood business districts cleaner, happier and more inviting for customers.
Earned gold certification for nonprofit transparency from Guidestar. We post our 990's, mid-year community letter, and financials on our website, leading the way for nonprofits with full disclosure and by being highly capital efficient and hyper-effective with donor funds.
Made our one-of-a-kind block adoption heat map (our most inspiring visual) visible to all and easily searchable by zip code. This is a powerful visualization of the impact we are having, showing how thousands of us can come together to improve the community we love and inspire others to join to make a difference.
Create and manage a Facebook community page that is unique and distinctive by its positive approach, broad community engagement and neighbor helping neighbor.
Meet the team
Olivia Langley
OPERATIONS MANAGER
A native Oregonian, Olivia Langley is passionate about fostering community and caring for the environment. She graduated from Oregon State University with degrees in Digital Communication Arts and Anthropology. She then joined Modo Medical Design as an account manager and was the primary daily interface between a demanding global client base and the Modo leadership team. As Operations Manager at AdoptOneBlock, Olivia leads all communication with their thousands of Block Ambassadors, is the contact point for all neighborhood associations and business alliances, designs and develops new programs to enhance the volunteer experience and improve the city and state we call home. She also works in supporting and further developing AdoptOneBlock's core technology and user interface in between running fundraising campaigns and writing grant proposals.
Outside of working hours, you can find Olivia writing and playing music, sailing on the Columbia, and exploring all corners of Portland with her loved ones.
Frank Moscow
BLOCK AMBASSADOR & FOUNDER
Frank retired from high technology leadership and as a native son, wanted to give back to the city and state he loves. Moving into Portland, he was saddened by how dirty the city had become and dedicated himself to finding a unique scalable approach that easily and efficiently engaged everyone in a sustainable long-term solution.
Additionally, Frank is on the Board of Advisors and Investment Committee of the Oregon Venture Fund, that, with its investors, has invested over $108 million in the area’s most promising growth companies. 31% of those companies are led by female founders and 22% by diverse founders. Frank believes passionately that the benefits of economic growth should be EQUALLY and FULLY available to ALL Oregonians.
He is the proud dad of two wonderful daughters who are doing amazing things in the world. When not a Block Ambassador, you will find Frank walking the city and supporting all of the wonderful small restaurants he can find.
On the board
Wendy Wendlandt
BOARD MEMBER
Wendy Wendlandt is a Senior Vice President and Political Director for the Public Interest Network. She also serves as President of Environment America, one of the flagship organizations within the network. The Public Interest Network runs organizations committed to a vision of a better world, a set of core values, and a strategic approach to getting things done. Environment America has offices in 29 states including Oregon. Environment America works to protect the places that all of us love and promote core environmental values, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean energy to power our lives.
Wendy has extensive experience building organizations and running social change campaigns to solve our nation’s many problems through advocacy, service and civic engagement. In recent years, she has focused attention on voter registration and partisan electoral campaigns. These non-partisan campaigns have helped to register more than 3 million voters in underrepresented communities since 1984. She is a senior trainer for the Public Interest Network and serves on the boards of America Votes, Green Corps, and the Green Century Funds, the nation’s first and only fossil fuel free mutual fund family. Wendy’s a 1983 graduate of Whitman College and lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Frank Moscow
BLOCK AMBASSADOR & FOUNDER
(see bio above)