In 2019, Street Roots turns 20. Twenty years of our newspaper committed to covering overlooked stories. Twenty years of our community giving a hand up to people struggling with homelessness and poverty. Twenty years of connecting people across this city, housed and unhoused.
Over those years, we’ve expanded from a monthly to a biweekly to a weekly, widening our reporting to economic, social and environmental justice. You can count on more significant investigative reporting from us. You can count on our commitment to our vendor program, as we continue to expand ways to support our vendors who earn an income selling Street Roots, buying each issue for a quarter to sell for a dollar. And you can count on our continued advocacy as we fight for the poorest residents of our region.
Over the next year, we will look back over this history of Street Roots to better understand our present, striving for a more just city. Watch for our 20th anniversary celebration this summer bringing together our vendors and the Street Roots community.
To mark this 20th anniversary milestone in Street Roots style, we’ve designed a commemorative beanie that all our Street Roots vendors will receive. Because individual donations are collectively the single largest way we keep Street Roots going as a nonprofit enterprise, we are offering the commemorative beanie as an incentive for giving donations of $75 or more.
If you’d like to receive it in time for Christmas, make your donation by midnight Dec. 9. Want us to send the beanie as a present to someone else? Email their name and address information to beanie@streetroots.org before midnight Dec. 9, and we’ll send it out for you.
Thank you for your support of Street Roots. It takes all of us to insist that all of our lives are connected in this region, and that the fates of our poorest neighbors matter to the fates of all of our lives. Keep Street Roots a strong force in creating a constructive and compassionate path forward.
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
