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Director’s Desk: 5 ways you can support Street Roots

Street Roots
From buying extra newspapers to making a donation
by Kaia Sand | 30 Nov 2018
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Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You can reach her at kaia@streetroots.org. Follow her on Twitter @mkaiasand

One thing about Street Roots – it is all of us, and we always welcome your support. Here are five specific ways you can support us during these winter holidays:

1. Buy extra copies of the newspaper and give them to friends or leave one at your local coffee house. We are proud of our journalism and want to make sure that people across our region read Street Roots.

2. Buy our holiday zine from your vendor. Our vendors worked hard all fall on this, and it is chock-full of insightful, compelling artwork and writing. It’s full of color and beautiful. 

Char sells Street Roots
Char sells the 2018 zine, along with the Street Roots newspaper, on Friday, Nov. 23. Her piece “Bridges” is published in the zine.
Photo by Kaia Sand

3. Our vendors brave the cold and the rain, so we could always use supplies for them. Warm hats, socks, gloves and mittens. Ponchos. Hand warmers.

Aimee Miller
Street Roots vendor Aimee Miller.
Photo by Kaia Sand

4. Think of us when you are doing your holiday shopping. Purchase gifts and support us at the same time! New Seasons is selling gift packages of Street Roast coffee ($3.33 of every pound of Street Roast sold goes directly to Street Roots). Or donate $75 and get a limited edition 20th anniversary beanie.

Street Roast
Street Roast coffee

5. The single biggest way we support our nonprofit is through individual donations. One by one by one, you all keep us afloat. Donate to Street Roots at the Willamette Week Give!Guide or set up a recurring donation on our website, and help us move into our 20th year strong together. 

And please keep spreading your kindness, encountering each person living unhoused as fully human and deserving of respect and courtesy. Thank you, Street Roots community! 


Street Roots is an award-winning, nonprofit, weekly newspaper focusing on economic, environmental and social justice issues. Our newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness and/or extreme poverty as means of earning an income with dignity. Learn more about Street Roots

 
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