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Welcome to the official NAPO Oregon membership profile workspace!

This is workspace containing profile information for the NAPO Oregon Chapter membership - both Professional Organizers and Associate Members. This space is read-only to the public. If you are interested in joining NAPO Oregon, please click here to visit our website for registration information. Within this site, we invite you to read through each member profile and/or search for specific criteria based on your needs (residential, business, specialty, city, zip, etc.) or flip through the full membership listings at the right of this page. Read the Searching the Membership Directory section below for help.

What Professional Organizers Can Do for You

Organized people save time and money, and reduce their stress and frustration levels. Professional organizers can help you deal with everything from your paper to your professional responsibilities and give you parameters on what to keep, what to toss, and where to take action. Our members are located throughout Oregon and have different arenas in which they specialize, so focusing your search will help you pare down to the professional who might be the best fit for your situation.

For example, your search criteria could focus on:

The city, neighborhood, or zip in which you live (e.g, Lake Oswego, Tigard, Burlingame, Mt Tabor, 97219, 97239, 97201, 97034).
The area of service in which you live (e.g., Portland Metropolitan, Vancouver, Southern Washington, Willamette Valley).
If the work is taking place within your residential environment, then you would focus on areas of the home or the specific task at hand (e.g., attic, basement, closets, collections, estate sales, kitchen, garage, home office, memorabilia, moving, relocation, space planning, technology).
If the work is taking place within your business environment, your search would focus on specifics inside your professional arena (e.g., corporate organizing, ergonomics, home business, information management, infrastructure, paper management, pc/mac computer focus, productivity, time management, small business, space planning, technology).
Special needs of the individuals involved (e.g., children, chronic disorganization, compulisve hoarding, people with ADD, people with ADHD, people with disabilities, seniors, students).
Other industry specialties (e.g., coaching clients, event planning, public seminars, public speaking, product line distribution, organizer mentor, organizer trainer, training workshops).

Searching the Membership Directory

The search engine on this platform is very robust making all contents of all the pages herein fully searchable. As with most applications, there are several ways to finding what you are looking for. Using the search bar in the upper right region of this page by typing key words (replacing the gray "Search" text) into the space and hitting enter or return on your keyboard. A drop down format will bring up your search results as found in titles and within pages. A deeper search of the page tags and files within this workspace can be promted by clicking the dropdown command line that says "or look for page content for...."

Frequently Used Terminology

Associate Member - An Associate Member is a locally based company, distributor, manufacturer, and/or seller of organizing equipment, products, supplies, or services in Oregon or Southwest Washington.
Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) - This is a designation recognizing those professionals who have met specific minimum qualifications and have proven through examination and client interaction that they possess the body of knowledge and experience required for certification.
Chronic Disorganization (CD) - The National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD) defines a chronically disorganized person as one having a past history of disorganization in which self-help efforts to change have failed, an undermining of current quality of life due to disorganization, and the expectation of future disorganization.
Golden Circle - This term is used by the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) to recognize veteran professional organizers who have been working in the industy for more than 5 years. This designation is symbolically denoted in member profiles with a gold seal emblem.
National Study Group for the Chronically Disorganized (NSGCD) - Explores, develops, and communicates information, organizing techniques and solutions to professional organizers, related professionals and the public.