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Arab American Cultural Center of Oregon (AACCO)
promoting the richness and beauty of Arab culture via community events, festivals and family entertainment throughout the calendar year. Sponsoring its own events, and lending support when possible to existing Arab culture activities held in the area. Read More + Links
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Access Community Care (ACC)
Working with people who have disabilities by providing direct support and employment services. Read More + Links
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Tryon Life Community Farm (TLC Farm)
A place for people and movements to root into land inside city limits. Seven wildish farmy acres surrounded by 700 acre forest. Infrastructure for meetings, workshops, culture, and long-term land-based projects. Goats, chickens, mason bees, fruit trees, gardens, and more. Read More + Links
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Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC)
Organizing frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa’ lúmt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area. Read More + Links
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Rockwood Center, The
Striving to provide a secure and supportive environment for our community members to participate in meaningful exploration, educational opportunities, and creative self-discovery. Dedicated to welcoming individuals from all walks of life. Read More + Links
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Rockwood Common
Free, volunteer-led community tool library and skill sharing workshops, serving East Multnomah County. Learn to repair, craft, build, and maintain from diverse neighbors. Common Resources for Common Resilience. Read More + Links
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Brassless Chaps
All queer, anti fascist, community brass band. They are looking for new people to join. Any and all skill levels are welcome. All instruments are welcome, not just brass (they have woodwinds too). Read More + Links
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LGBTQ Portland
Share, connect, attend. LGBTQ events, businesses, and news. Read More + Links
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Raphael House
Dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence. Supporting survivors through emergency and ongoing services, while advancing systemic change through community-based education and collaborative advocacy. Committed to building a future where survivors, their families, and our communities thrive. Read More + Links
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Animal Welfare Team (PAW Team)
Seeking to provide the highest level of care possible for companion animals and their families in our community. Read More + Links
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Asylum Seeker Solidarity Collective
Organizing, mutual aid and advocacy with newcomer asylum seekers. Mostly but not exclusively Spanish speakers. Current focus on shelter/housing and deportation defense. Read More + Links
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Write Around
Changing lives through the power of writing by facilitating storytelling in underheard communities. Read More + Links
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Waterside Renewal Foundation
Creating healthy habitat, equitable river access, and environmental education by reclaiming, restoring and regenerating a seven-acre brownfield site in St. Johns. Read More + Links
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Voz
A worker-led organization that empowers diverse day laborers, including domestic workers, and immigrants to improve their working conditions and protect civil rights through leadership development, organizing, education and economic opportunity. Read More + Links
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Urban Gleaners
Food rescue and environmental organization collecting food before it goes to waste and redistributing to Free Food Markets throughout Washington and Multnomah Counties. Read More + Links
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UPRISE Collective, The
Opening spaces and providing support for people with targeted identities to engage in social uplift within our own communities. Read More + Links
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Tuesday Foodway
Providing mutual aid and food to the community. Read More + Links
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Queer Meetup
Local queers who want to hangout and build community. Read More + Links
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Queer Asian Social Meetup
A social group for those who identify as AANHPI and LGBTQIA+. Read More + Links
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Trans Guys Gather
A trans masculine social group. Read More + Links
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Traction Project
Martial arts, self defense, and motorcycle repair programs by and for LGBTQIA+ people. Read More + Links
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Tenacious Rose
Hosting events, celebrations, and community gatherings. Read More + Links
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Taking Ownership
Repairing and reviving Black owned homes and business through donations, volunteers, and resources. Read More + Links
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Sunrise Movement
Young people fighting for a livable future for all. Making climate justice an urgent priority. Read More + Links
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Street Medicine
Improving the health and wellbeing of homeless neighbors through trust, relationship and care. Read More + Links
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Street Books
Mobile library & community gathering space for people who live outside. Read More + Links
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Street Art Alliance
Offering a range of professional and educational services, including artist commissions, community art projects, grant projects, education, and outreach. Read More + Links
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Social Justice Action Center
By and for grassroots organizations (especially those of people of color and marginalized communities) as a place to gather, organize, and build culture. Read More + Links
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Sisters of the Road
Building community and creating systemic solutions to homelessness and poverty. Read More + Links
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Sex Worker Resource Project
Harm reduction & resource for sex workers. Black and Indigenous founded. Read More + Links
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Saint’s Love
Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists walking alongside community members towards housing and health goals. Read More + Links
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Rose Haven
A day shelter and community center serving women, children and gender non-conforming folks experiencing the trauma of abuse, loss of home and other disruptive life challenges. Read More + Links
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Rose City Indivisible
An all-volunteer group fighting against human rights abuses via mutual aid fundraising and putting pressure on elected officials. Read More + Links
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Road’s End Farm
A community of people who believe that everyone deserves a safe place to be sick and to die – regardless of whether or not they struggle with unstable mental health, are actively using substances, or have unflattering paper trails. Read More + Links
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Resist US-Led War
Build Just and Lasting Peace Read More + Links
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Repair PDX
Organizing Repair Cafés – free events that bring volunteers who like to fix things together with people who have broken items that need fixing. Read More + Links
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Rahab’s Sisters
Building community through radical hospitality with folks marginalized by gender, houselessness, poverty, sex work, violence, and substance use. Read More + Links
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Non-Binary Collective
A group for adults who don’t identify as binary genders. Read More + Links
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Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project (MERP)
Expanding grassroots power & attaining sustainable resources w/ marginalized communities to build food sovereignty 4 climate justice. Read More + Links
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Milk Crate Kitchen
Grassroots. Overcoming barriers to food security cooking & delivering family meals to those in need, no cost, no questions asked. We rescue food too! Read More + Links
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Mending Bloc
Offering sewing and mending services to repair clothes, sleeping bags, tents, etc, and also teaching people to mend things themselves. Read More + Links
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Meals on Us
Providing healthy, chef-curated meals for those who need them most, at no charge. Read More + Links
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Matzah Bloc
A group of Jewish activists and allies local to the greater Portland area who believe in mutual aid and community care over institutionalized systems. Read More + Links
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International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS)
A local chapter of an international organization that coordinates anti-imperialist movements. Read More + Links
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Kalikasan Solidarity Organization (KSO)
An anti-imperialist environmental justice organization fighting in solidarity with land defenders and human rights defenders in the Philippines. Read More + Links
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Indigenous Marketplace
Working to strengthen our Indigenous community and culture. Read More + Links
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Immigrant Mutual Aid Coalition (IMAC)
Providing mutual aid for immigrant families and strives to reduce health disparities and equity gaps in our communities. Read More + Links
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Hygiene 4 All
A hygiene hub for unsheltered residents in the central east side. Read More + Links
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Healthcare Workers for Palestine
A multi-disciplinary group of health care workers working to demand a permanent ceasefire and open access to humanitarian aid in Gaza. Read More + Links
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Fruit Tree Project
Increasing equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce. Read More + Links