Portland Preparedness Data Almanac

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2024 PBEM Volunteer Data

2024 General Data

Total volunteer hours [1] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 YEAR TOTAL
5,675 7,865 4,353 7,159 25,053
Deployment/Program Service hours [2] 2,743 (11%)
Basic NET Training hours [3] 5,142 (21%)
Advanced NET/Exercise hours [4] 6,476 (26%)
BEECN/Amateur Radio hours [5] 4,943 (20%)
Community Engagement hours [6] 5,747 (23%)
Pareto number [7] 12.17% 15.61% 8.48% 13.71% 25.32%
Total dollar inputs (not including staff) $122,361 ($40,703 general fund / $81,658 grants)
Volunteer hours value $810,933

2024 Significant Events

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Date Event Type Notes
2024.11.30 Scenario Village: Operation Wheeler Training/Exercise
2024.11.16 BEECN Exercise Training/Exercise
2024.11.02 Unidos Contra Desastres food distribution Deployment Unidos Contra Desastres partnered with Safe Blocks to distribute food boxes in Cully.
2024.10.29 Citywide Deployment Exercise Training/Exercise
2024.10.29 IronOR DAMM Exercise Training/Exercise
2024.10.19 Basic NET class Training/Exercise Held in Homestead Neighborhood. Graduated 65
2024.10.05 Rosewood Initiative Disaster Prep class series Training/Exercise Delivered in Spanish
2024.09.14 NETCamp 2024 Training/Exercise 19 classes over 2½ days.
2024.07.27 Latino NET en Cully rechristened Unidos Contra Desastres Programming The name change reflects that we are expanding Spanish programming beyond Cully.
2024.07.10 City Council marks NET's 30th anniversary Programming Event included presentation and proclamation.
2024.06.05 Introduction of Adobe Lightroom to manage NET and BEECN photos Programming
2024.06.01 Friends of Portland NET 30th Anniversary NET Breakfast Programming
2024.06.01 Portland Rose Festival Deployment NETs serving as Parade Guides and as first aid auxiliaries.
2024.05.04 Basic NET class Training/Exercise 58 NETs graduated by 06/09.
2024.04.27 Scenario Village: Operation Kalapuya Training/Exercise
2024.04.27 Citywide Deployment Exercise Training/Exercise
2024.04.18 Trainingpalooza! Training/Exercise 18 classes instructing Wilderness First Aid and other medical response topics. Was also an opportunity to train new instructors.
2024.01.24 Retirement of Ernie Jones, PBEM's BEECN Coordinator People Ernie was PBEM's BEECN Coordinator. Due to budget cuts, his position was not refilled.
2024.01.13 Basic NET class Training/Exercise 53 NETs graduated by 02/11.
2024.01.13 NET deployment in response to major winter storm Deployment First field test of the DAMM.
2024.01.06 BEECN drill with twelve BEECN resources Training/Exercise
2024.01.06 TeenCERT programming transferred to Multnomah County in response to budget cuts Programming

2024 Program Activity Data

Volunteer Deployments
Deployment events 10
Estimated deployment hours
Basic NET Training
Basic NET classes 3
Graduates 176
Basic BEECN Training
Basic BEECN classes 11
Seats 307
Advanced Training/Exercises
Advanced training events 85
Seats 2,149
In person seats / Online class seats 1,236 / 913


COAD members

Training events in Spanish

Classes (and hours?) in Spanish

2024 BEECN Readiness Data

The shape of BEECN readiness in 2024. The full BEECN dashboard is viewable HERE.
BEECN Readiness Scores
2024 Start January 1, 2024

35.52%

2024 Midyear July 2, 2024

20.30%

2024 Maximum January 10, 2024

37.89%

2024 End December 31, 2024

26.56%

BEECN Volunteers at the close of 2024
BEECN Volunteers (non-ARO) 351
Amateur Radio Operators (AROs) assigned 34
Fire stations with 2+ assigned AROs 10
Fire stations with one assigned ARO 9
Fire stations with zero assigned AROs 15
Fire stations with no AROs assigned will not be able to activate or relay the messages transmitted by their assigned BEECNs. Having two AROs assigned is optimal; one is risky.

2024 Volunteer Hours by District

District

Population

Volunteers Hours Logged % | Pareto MSC [8]
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 TOTAL Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Yearlong
District 1 148,117 [9] 86 90 89 94 395 639 310 378 1,722 38.4% | 14.0% 34.4% | 13.3% 25.8% | 9.0% 30.9% | 14.0% 47.8% | 22.3% 37.2%
District 2 143,013 [10] 435 459 457 469 1,242 2,210 962 1,390 5,805 25.5% | 9.2% 26.8% | 11.8% 20.4% | 6.6% 24.3% | 9.2% 39.2% | 16.8% 28.1%
District 3 153,705 [11] 355 369 368 383 1,331 1,819 1,184 1,796 6,131 34.4% | 11.0% 35.0% | 13.6% 22.3% | 4.3% 30.5% | 12.5% 47.5% | 19.3% 35.5%
District 4 139,967 [12] 480 493 490 504 2,540 2,906 1,796 3,304 10,545 42.1% | 15.6% 37.1% | 12.6% 27.6% | 9.4% 36.7% | 11.5% 52.4% | 21.4% 40.9%

2024 Hours by Neighborhood

Data definitions/parameters: A "volunteer" on these tables is an Active NET, BEECN, or ATV. Hour quantities are rounded. The number of volunteers is the number listed active in that dataset at the end of the year, while hours are accumulated over the course of a calendar year.

Possible data discrepancies: Some Portland neighborhoods are divided between districts (Brooklyn for example, occupying districts 3 and 4). In the tables below, all neighborhoods are grouped once under a single district. Therefore, totals here may be slightly different than what is found in 2024 Volunteer Hours by District. Volunteers trend towards under-reporting their volunteer hours.

District 1
Neighborhood Volunteers Hours
Argay 6 366
Centennial 15 245
Glenfair 1 0
Hazelwood 15 370
Lents 20 179
Mill Park 2 0
Parkrose 6 147
Parkrose Heights 3 0
Pleasant Valley 6 24
Powelhurst-Gilbert 15 218
Russell 3 65
Sumner 1 0
Sunderland 1 0
Wilkes 4 78
Woodland Park 1 0
District 2
Neighborhood Volunteers Hours
Alameda 16 98
Arbor Lodge 20 358
Beaumont-Wilshire 16 182
Boise 15 223
Bridgeton 7 2
Cathedral Park 7 675
Concordia 26 124
Cully 65 163
East Columbia 1 0
Eliot 8 54
Grant Park 18 256
Hayden Island 6 26
Hollywood 7 156
Humboldt 9 125
Irvington 35 332
Kenton 22 235
King 17 155
Lloyd District 5 33
Overlook 20 271
Piedmont 18 58
Portsmouth 13 148
Sabin 14 451
St. Johns 40 961
Sullivan's Gulch 13 132
University Park 13 347
Vernon 6 81
Woodlawn 22 161
District 3
Neighborhood Volunteers Hours
Brentwood-Darlington 21 501
Brooklyn 6 21
Buckman 16 103
Creston-Kenilworth 22 685
Foster-Powell 17 225
Hosford-Abernethy 20 34
Kerns 16 207
Laurelhurst 19 487
Madison South 10 125
Montavilla 29 321
Mt. Scott-Arleta 19 529
Mt. Tabor 30 835
North Tabor 8 35
Richmond 33 424
Rose City Park 23 286
Roseway 19 189
South Tabor 11 99
Sunnyside 23 139
Woodstock 34 774
District 4
Neighborhood Volunteers Hours
Ardenwald-Johnson Creek 1 15
Arlington Heights 14 32
Arnold Creek 14 47
Ashcreek 17 197
Bridlemile 22 363
Collins View 30 829
Crestwood 2 14
Eastmoreland 10 47
Far Southwest 6 58
Forest Park 8 109
Goose Hollow 10 95
Hayhurst 16 227
Healy Heights 0 0
Hillsdale 19 460
Hillside 3 0
Homestead 29 853
Linnton 9 116
Maplewood 13 1,127
Markham 9 27
Marshall Park 10 176
Multnomah 27 589
Northwest District 34 539
Northwest Heights 13 353
Old Town-Chinatown 2 0
Pearl District 21 574
Portland Downtown 23 156
Reed 2 2
Riverdale 5 174
Sellwood-Moreland 35 485
South Burlingame 16 658
South Portland 17 64
Southwest Hills 17 1,045
Sylvan-Highlands 10 85
West Portland Park 11 130



2024 Photo Gallery

  • Portland City Council celebrates NET's 30 Year Anniversary.
    Portland City Council celebrates NET's 30 Year Anniversary.
  • PBEM's Jeremy and Glenn receiving recognition plaques during Friends of Portland NET's 30 year NET Anniversary party on June 1. Photo by Katy Wolf.
    PBEM's Jeremy and Glenn receiving recognition plaques during Friends of Portland NET's 30 year NET Anniversary party on June 1. Photo by Katy Wolf.
  • NET volunteering at Grand Floral Parade first aid station on June 8. Photo by Roger Wirt.
    NET volunteering at Grand Floral Parade first aid station on June 8. Photo by Roger Wirt.
  • Centennial NET conducting an operations exercise on July 27. Photo by Karen Wolfgang.
    Centennial NET conducting an operations exercise on July 27. Photo by Karen Wolfgang.
  • NETs and CERTs practicing survivor carries at NETCamp. Photo by Lisa Jamieson.
    NETs and CERTs practicing survivor carries at NETCamp. Photo by Lisa Jamieson.
  • Ashcreek NET participating in the Citywide Deployment Exercise on October 30.
    Ashcreek NET participating in the Citywide Deployment Exercise on October 30.
  • NET Unidos Contra Desastres at Scenario Village on November 30. Photo by Marisol Lozano-Peralta.
    NET Unidos Contra Desastres at Scenario Village on November 30. Photo by Marisol Lozano-Peralta.
  • Woodstock NET practices with fire extinguishers on December 2. Photo by Mark Ginsberg.
    Woodstock NET practices with fire extinguishers on December 2. Photo by Mark Ginsberg.
  • Christine Wilson inspecting a BEECN cache.
    Christine Wilson inspecting a BEECN cache.

How to Read the Statistics

This section guides readers on how to read and interpret the numbers that are not straightforward.

Logged %

Indicates the percentage of volunteers in the subject dataset that logged any hours at all (x > 0).

Pareto Numbers

Pareto Numbers are based on the Pareto Principle; the notion that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. For volunteer purposes, it is an index of volunteer activity. In strict mathematical terms, the Pareto Number indicates what percentage of active volunteers are logging 80% of the volunteer hours. If your NET community is a beehive, the Pareto Number answers: how loudly is that beehive buzzing?

The number indexes volunteer community activity in the respect that a low number would indicate very few active volunteers are actually engaged with programming. This would imply several prospective problems in that volunteer community, not the least of which include:

  1. Low volunteer activity;
  2. A small "hard core" of volunteers burning themselves out carrying the activity and volunteer labor of the other volunteers;
  3. A volunteer roster populated with inactive volunteers;
  4. A volunteer community where few of the volunteers know each other or regularly work together (particularly troublesome for disaster response volunteers).

Example: A Tale of Two Teams

Let's say there are two teams: Team 1 and Team 2. Each has ten volunteers. In a year, Team 1 logged 105 hours and Team 2 logged 100 hours. On the face of it, those numbers might suggest Team 1 was slightly more active than Team 2 in that year. But if we pull the hours of each individual team member, the picture looks like this:

Team 1 Team 2
Volunteer Hours Volunteer Hours
Vol. 1a 85 Vol. 2a 20
Vol. 1b 6 Vol. 2b 17
Vol. 1c 5 Vol. 2c 15
Vol. 1d 3 Vol. 2d 15
Vol. 1e 3 Vol. 2e 12
Vol. 1f 0 Vol. 2f 11
Vol. 1g 0 Vol. 2g 7
Vol. 1h 0 Vol. 2h 3
Vol. 1i 0 Vol. 2i 0
Vol. 1j 0 Vol. 2j 0

80% of each team's hours is 84 and 80, respectively. On Team 1, one volunteer accomplished that portion. On Team 2, five volunteers made up 80% of the hours. So in this example, Team 1 has a Pareto score of 10% and Team 2 has 50%. Even though Team 1 logged more hours, Team 2 is distributing more of the weight of the work amongst themselves. This could mean that Team 2 is more resilient to volunteer burnout and has denser collaborative relationships.

This is not to denigrate the effort of "super volunteer" on Team 1 (who is also probably the Team Leader). We love super volunteers and appreciate their work! But if we need to evaluate the health of a team, we would encourage that volunteer to ask their teammates for help, or plan with PBEM how to get those volunteers more involved. A small number of volunteers should not be asked to carry the resilience effort of a whole neighborhood; that is simply too much. There are also five volunteers on Team 1 who logged zero hours. The Team Leader may want to ask PBEM if those volunteers are still active in the program.

Yearlong vs. Quarterly Pareto Numbers

This Wiki article references both annual ("Yearlong") and quarterly Pareto Numbers for Portland Districts. However, only the annual number is really important; quarterly figures are more of a curiosity and do not really say much about overall team activity.

MSC: Minimum Service Contribution

This metric indicates what percentage of active volunteers in the dataset made their Minimum Service Contribution of twelve logged hours in a year.

Notes and References

  1. ↑ All hour totals represent the number of hours logged by volunteers. Actual volunteer hours are underreported.
  2. ↑ Deployment hours represent hours spent responding to an emergency incident. Service hours represent hours that directly improve programming, such as through instruction, event planning, filming training videos, writing articles, and so on.
  3. ↑ Hours spent either in Basic NET Training, or hours refreshing basic volunteer skills (e.g. an Active NET volunteer re-taking Basic NET Training).
  4. ↑ Hours in advanced training courses or in response exercises.
  5. ↑ Any hours related to BEECN or amateur radio activities by PBEM volunteers.
  6. ↑ Community engagement hours include NET team meetings, community presentations, NET Team Leader responsibilities, tabling at events, etc.
  7. ↑ The "Pareto number" (based on the Pareto Principle) is an index of volunteer activity. It is one method for measuring how active PBEM volunteers are. The number is the percentage of active PBEM volunteers who contributed 80% of the reported volunteer hours. A higher number is a higher representation of activity (so: the higher the number, the better). A program with consistently low Pareto numbers is probably not sustainable, as that would indicate a very small number of volunteers doing almost all of the work.
  8. ↑ Minimum Service Contribution.
  9. ↑ From: https://www.portland.gov/civic/documents/district-1-profile-2023/download
  10. ↑ From: https://www.portland.gov/civic/documents/district-2-profile-2023/download
  11. ↑ From: https://www.portland.gov/civic/documents/district-3-profile-2023/download
  12. ↑ From: https://www.portland.gov/civic/documents/district-4-profile-2023/download
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