With the help of folks like you SR has raised $20,000 of its $25,000 goal. We need you to help us get over the hump.
Here’s why you should support SR.
SR gives Portlanders hard-hitting journalism and unique insights, while giving 300 individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty a voice, immediate income and self-confidence and self-worth through working? Plus, nearly 100,000 Rose City Resource guides and thousands of relationships were built, reaching those in crisis in 2009.
We have reported on a myriad of complex issues facing our community, while bringing you insightful voices ranging from Rick Steves to Ted Wheeler. We’ve published hundreds of poems and street art, while highlighting the voices of new Portlanders, people experiencing mental health, police, addicts, sex workers, minority groups, politicians, attorneys, reporters, musicians, economists, and authors, all with a goal of making the world we live, a world with a little bit more dignity.
We led campaigns to save 300 families from being kicked to the curb in NW Oregon through investigative journalism and activism, help support securing millions of dollars in the city budget for housing and homelessness, and have now put a housing levy conversation in motion on the main stage.
What makes this story unique is not all of the things we have accomplished in 2009, but the fact that it was done on less than 200k and led by more than 300 vendors over the course of the year, three and half staff and a small army of volunteers. We don’t think that’s to shabby. We hope you agree.
Your donation this year will not only go towards helping individuals improve their quality of life, but moving the region forward on important conversations taking place on street corners in front of businesses, in the halls of power, and in living rooms and camps all across the Portland region.
It’s your readership that makes it all possible. We ask for your support.
You can also give through the Willamette Week Give! Guide and get some great incentives in return.
Israel Bayer, Street Roots