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A letter of thanks for the Street Roots family

COMMENTARY | It takes strength to rely on our community; if we’re lucky, we get to give back I’ve learned a lot about generosity over the past year. And, I guess you could say, I’ve learned it the hard way. At 45, at the end of a five-year investment i ...

19 Nov 2015 - Kate Cox
21st century tent city: a photo feature

A look inside the Seattle community of Tent City 3, established years ago by people experiencing homelessness and sanctioned by the city Tent cities — organized and run by people experiencing homelessness — are becoming de facto living options in times of ...

29 Jul 2015 - Street Roots
New president brings local perspective to Urban League of Portland

Native Oregonian Nkenge Harmon Johnson on the city and ULPDX's past, present and future Nkenge Harmon Johnson’s legal and political career has taken her from her Pacific Northwest home across the United States and back again. A graduate of the Trinit ...

30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Street Roots vendor profile: Amber Dunks

The activist talks home, activism and engagement from the streets When Amber Dunks sits down for her interview, she is clearly exhausted. She explains that while her fiancé has a job, he returns late, and last night they had a difficult time finding a s ...

29 May 2015 - Leonora Ko
Power of Creativity: Street Roots vendors and Write Around Portland

Street Roots vendors espouse respect, community through Write Around Portland creative writing workshop Since Feb. 12, a group of nearly 20 Street Roots vendors has been attending a creative writing workshop hosted by Write Around Portland, a nonprofit th ...

15 Mar 2015 - Street Roots Staff
Community development’s golden rule: Come together

Oregon has a history of ingenuity and innovation. We have worked hard to come together and build communities and public systems — roads, schools, cities and towns — that sustain us. Yet, that central lesson of coming together is often forgotten. Let’s rem ...

20 Oct 2014 - Omar Carrillo T...
Help SR nominate the 2014 Vendor of the Year

We appreciate your participation and support of the vendor program! The nomination form for 2014 Vendor of the Year is now closed. The Street Roots Vendor of the Year program seeks to recognize one vendor for his or her outstanding contributions as an amb ...

24 Jul 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Jade District: International business meets local activism

The Jade District, the neighborhood center located around Southeast 82nd Avenue and Division Street, is literally boxed in by major transportation corridors: Southeast 80th Avenue to the east, outer Southeast Powell Boulevard to the south, 93rd Avenue to ...

10 Jul 2014 - Luann Algoso an...
Photo slideshow: Primetime Street Roots

Street Roots partnered with local company Whaleheart Productions and director Gabe Van Lelyveld to produce a promotional video to bring greater awareness to the Street Roots vendor program and our mission in the community. For three days, April 24 to 27, ...

20 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff
The Village Building Convergence: An answer to better questions

When there are so many challenges to making the beautiful world we believe in the same one we live in, what do we do in Portland? When the world is increasingly ready for ways to heal deep social alienation and problems such as homelessness and disempower ...

15 May 2014 - Joseph Von Hoven