Jocelyn Furbush

Program Manager

jocelyn@livelihoodnw.org

Jocelyn has been with Livelihood NW since 2021, providing accounting advising to entrepreneurs and managing the bookkeeping program. She has a Master’s in Public Administration and a BA in Community Development, both from Portland State University. Her background has included work in food cooperatives, nonprofit fundraising and grant administration, and neighborhood-based community organizing. In 2010, she helped to found Kitchen Commons, a nonprofit focused on bringing people together to share food, skills, and resources. Jocelyn has been supporting a variety of local nonprofits and small businesses with bookkeeping and financial management services since 2016. She gets excited about finding and resolving reconciliation discrepancies and loves seeing clients get a clearer picture of their numbers to inform their goals, both big and small. Her own business, Vibrant Mission, also offers retreat design and creative practice groups. 

Jocelyn lives and grows food in the Cully neighborhood on a quarter-acre lot, with several fruit trees, chickens, and bees. Gardening has taught her a lot about the rewards of success (multiple jars stored up each year of a delicious bush bean now many years into being grown from saved seed) and also persistence and resilience through failures (maybe the third fourth time will be the charm for attempting to grow a giant pumpkin!)