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
Street Roots vendors are at the core of the organization and mission. The vendor issue is a testament to their work, creativity and ambitions for the future. For nearly 25 years, Street Roots has dedicated itself to uplifting the voices of our low-income ...
13 Sep 2023 - Kodee Zarnke
Opinion | Kotek’s decision to hide her new task force’s conversations from the public is opaque, unethical and counterproductive Now, I promise what follows isn’t a setup for a joke, though there’s something one could argue is comedic within the subject o ...
6 Sep 2023 - K. Rambo
Opinion | A new section in the guide lists services for people exiting incarceration GET YOUR ROSE CITY RESOURCE GUIDES Pick up Rose City Resource guides by visiting our office at 211 NW Davis St. in Old Town. We are open 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesd ...
2 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
Director's Desk | Street Roots groundbreaking ceremony was motivated by hope and community It didn’t go as planned — and that is OK. The day came after weeks of planning the Streets Roots groundbreaking processional. It was time for the community to ...
29 Mar 2023 - Cody McGraw
Transforming Justice | Compared to other nations, the United States sends more people to prisons, spends more tax dollars on prisons. Why? Few pop culture quips are more memorable than 1970s TV detective Tony Baretta’s “Don't do the crime if you can& ...
16 Mar 2023 - Andy Ko and Babak Zolfaghar...
People with lived experience should be seen as an effective, accessible and realistic solution to nonprofit staffing woes Nonprofits providing services to our most vulnerable people are struggling with understaffing. Finding those with master’s degrees wi ...
1 Mar 2023 - Mark Schorr
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