Dignity Village
Portland, Oregon
Dignity Village is a membership-based community in NE Portland, providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2000. It’s democratically self-governed with a mission to provide transitional housing that fosters community and self-empowerment– a radical experiment to end homelessness.
City Repair Project
Portland, Oregon
City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. City Repair has accomplished many projects through a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists. We provide support, resources, and opportunities to help diverse communities reclaim the culture, power, and joy that we all deserve.
Operation Nightwatch
Portland, Oregon
There are many agencies in the Portland area that provide services such as housing, food, and clothing to those experiencing houselessness, low-income individuals, or those living with mental illness. Operation Nightwatch’s unique vision is to provide place for these people to escape social isolation while also providing a cup of coffee, a meal, and much needed mental health services and food care during a time that other agencies are closed.
Sisters of the Road
Portland, Oregon
Sisters of the Road is a nonprofit Cafe in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood working to create systemic change that will end poverty and homelessness by providing nourishing meals in a safe, dignified space.
We work to build community one relationship at a time, with nonviolence and gentle personalism, believing everyone has a piece of the truth and that we are all more than the sum of our current situation or past experiences.
Street Roots
Portland, Oregon
Founded in 1999, Street Roots is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization in Portland, Oregon, that publishes a weekly alternative newspaper sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty to earn an income.Each week, about 180 Street Roots vendors purchase copies of the newspaper for 25 cents each, then sell them on the streets of Portland for $1, keeping the profits. More than 800 vendors sell the newspaper during the course of a year.
