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HOPE: A Campaign to Build a Permanent Home for Street Roots

SECURE.

After 20 years, Street Roots has found its new home on the corner of 3rd and Burnside.

Timeline

Current IMPACT

Vendor Program

Each week about 250 Street Roots active vendors purchase copies of the newspaper for 25 cents each, then sell them on the streets of Portland for $1.

Rose City Resource Guide

The most comprehensive resource guide for the homeless in the city. More than 215,000 copies are distributed annually for free to over 400 organizations.

Newspaper

5,000 papers are distributed every week. Our content includes in-depth reporting by professional journalists, along with op-eds.

Advocacy

Street Roots currently has 10 key advocacy priorities, focusing our sights on the resources needed for housing and homeless services.

Future IMPACT

(with our new building)

Space for unscripted moments

Double the amount of jobs vendors secure

Provide showers and laundry

Facilitate 12,000 visits a year to 48,000 visits a year

Invest in the future of Old Town

Increase average vendor income from $12,000/year to $16,000/year

Campaign updates

Portland Video Production - Street Roots Groundbreaking Kick Off

KGW8 – “Street Roots prepares for expansion with purchase of new building”

Jennifer Bradford shares a message about our capital campaign.

Bronwyn Carver wants you to know this about Street Roots.

Gary Barker wants to bring laughter back to our community.

Additional Updates

•“Street Roots prepares for expansion with purchase of new building” - KG8 News

•“Street Roots plans headquarters, services expansion” - KOIN 6 News

•“Street Roots starts redeveloping Old Town headquarters” - Portland Business Journal (subscription required)

•“Act of Hope” - Portland Business Journal (subscription required)

•“How Street Roots found its new space” - Street Roots

•”Street Roots sends a message of HOPE” - Street Roots

This campaign is 85% funded.

We need YOU to get us to the finish line.

Major Supporters

American Rescue Plan

CareOregon

Collins Foundation

Cole Reed

David and Christine Vernier

Henry Lea Hillman Foundation

Holst Architecture

Jessica Helgerson Interior Design

Marie Lamfrom Foundation

McGee Salvage

Multnomah County

Neil Kelly

O’Neill Construction Company

Portland Clean Energy Fund

Prosper Portland

Shiels Obletz & Johnsen

Western Partitions, Inc.

Willis

Support

How can you help with Portland’s homelessness crisis? Support our camapgin!

Learn about the three areas that need funding to complete our capital campaign ♥️

Newsroom

Wellness Center

Other Ways To Give

Wire Transfer

Stock, securities, mutual funds

Donor Advised Fund

IRAs

Kaia Sand

Executive Director

(503) 967-3987 

kaia@streetroots.org

Twitter

Cody Pika Tavita McGraw

Capital Campaign Director

503-330-1813 (cell)

cody@streetroots.org

To learn more check out our Case for Support (PDF).

Renderings of our new home at 219 NW Burnside

For a more detailed explanation of each floor, check out the piece written by our partners HOLST Architecture