The DePaul Industries Blog

DePaul Industries runs a variety of successful businesses, but we also have an important social mission: to identify and create job opportunities for people with employment barriers.  Now that our Fiscal Year 2018 is in the books, we wanted to share our impact.

We're very excited to be hosting a Portland Social Service Fair at our office Sept. 14!  The fair is being organized by the Community Services Network PDX and Washington County Project Homeless Connect.  Information for attendees is below. If you're a nonprofit interested in hosting a booth, get…

We're excited to announce that DePaul Industries' Salem office has moved! We're settled into our new space at: DePaul Industries 627 Winter St. NE Salem, OR 97301 We're very excited about the central location of the new office in downtown Salem. We're just a few blocks from the Oregon State…

We are very proud of a DePaul Security Officer who saved a child's life while on duty last month. Security Officer Stephen Davis was monitoring the metal detectors at the Yamhill County Courthouse on May 10 when a child began choking on a piece of candy. Officer Davis jumped into action to…

We're pleased to announce that DePaul Industries CFO Tom Horey was named the Portland Business Journal's 2018 CFO of the Year at an awards luncheon at The Nines hotel on May 17! Tom joined DePaul in October of 2014 to head up our finance department. As a social enterprise nonprofit with four…

We're excited to introduce a project we've been hard at work on: developing a coalition of Portland nonprofits that are working together to better serve those in need in the Portland area. We're calling it the Community Services Network. DePaul Industries' mission is to provide job opportunities…

DePaul Industries Unified Workforce associate Jon Hin was featured working last week in a KOIN 6 news story about Amazon's Prime Now operation in Portland. Jon first appears about 41 seconds into the video, which you can watch below, and is wearing a neon yellow shirt. In September 2016, Unified…

October is here, which means it's time to recognize National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) 2017. NDEAM is a national campaign that raises awareness about disability employment issues and celebrates the many and varied contributions of America's workers with disabilities. It's led…

We're proud to report that DePaul Industries' Unified Workforce program, which helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to find employment in the community, has been featured as a success story by Oregon's Employment First initiative. Last year, our program transitioned from…

We have some exciting news to report: DePaul Industries is now certified to export infant formula to China! How did this certification come about? We submitted an application to the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CNCA) a few years ago. In the…