Opinion | Free Geek, Personal Telco and Street Roots partner to launch the AfroVillage Old Town Community Network There’s a tiny piece of equipment on the roof of the soon-to-open Street Roots building on West Burnside Street that’s hard to glimpse from b ...
31 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Help Street Roots raise $27,237 for elevator construction Flying chairs, ascending rooms, steam-powered elevators descending into mines. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. For millennia, people ...
17 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Annual Willamette Week project aims to raise $8.25 million for 250 nonprofits by year’s end I returned to the question a couple of times in my conversation with Richard Meeker: “Why do you do this?" I was curious about why Meeker, as the fo ...
8 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Street Roots’ winter fund drive is a critical time for the organization, homeless Portlanders and local journalism Street Roots vendors are bustling all around the city. You might be chatting with your vendor after you picked up groceries. Maybe ...
30 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand