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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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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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Be Loved Bloc
Behind-the-scenes system building, logistics support, and community organizing. Trans-led and focused on mutual aid, trans rights, abolition, and connecting more people to the work that sustains community care and movement building. Always open to new collaborations and projects! 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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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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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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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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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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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 Radical
A bimonthly, locally based, cooperatively operated newspaper by and for working class people. 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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Renter’s Action Network (RAN)
A grassroots network of renters building tenant unions, distributing mutual aid and creating resources such as RateYourLandlordPDX.com to connect tenants with each other. 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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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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Mask Bloc
PPE distribution and COVID mutual aid. Read More + Links
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Letters for Palestine
Volunteer solidarity organization. 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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Jewish Voice for Peace
The local chapter of the largest progressive anti-zionist org in the world. Read More + Links
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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
A member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and 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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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
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Freeform
Nonprofit, all-volunteer freeform radio station. Read More + Links
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Free Store
A project in the works to create a free store to serve our local community with free items. Read More + Links
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Free Fridges
All over town are comrades willing to stock fridges and pantries facing public sidewalks for anyone in the community to come grab free food and supplies. Read More + Links
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Food Not Bombs (FNB)
Hosting free vegan community picnics and food giveaways weekly, year round. Read More + Links
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Food Bank
Providing access to nutritious food for all and building community power to eliminate hunger and its root causes for good. Read More + Links
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Equitable Giving Circle
Leveraging economic deposits from communities of privilege to empower BIPOC communities and begin to move towards economic equity. Read More + Links
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Don’t Shoot
An arts and education organization promoting social justice and civic participation. Read More + Links
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Depave PDX
Empowering disenfranchised communities to overcome social and environmental injustices and adapt to climate change through urban re-greening. Read More + Links
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Cultivate Initiatives
A group of people who envision communities that are safe, supportive and full of opportunity. Offering daily free showers to unhoused neighbors. Read More + Links
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Critical Resistance
Working with incarcerated people to abolish the prison industrial complex and resisting policing through the Care Not Cops campaign. Read More + Links
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Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT)
Educating and empowering tenants to demand safe, stable and affordable rental homes. Read More + Links
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Clean Air Committee
Lending free air purifiers for local events. Read More + Links
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Cautious Optimism Peer Education & Support (COPES)
An anticarceral peer wellness collective offering 1:1 support, peer groups & resources for mental health. Read More + Links
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Cascades Abortion Support Collective
Volunteer-led grassroots collective providing reproductive resources and abortion support. Read More + Links
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Cardamom Community Garden
Learning to connect with the land while developing relationships and skills for revolutionary work. Read More + Links
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Call to Safety
Providing confidential support services and education to domestic and sexual violence survivors. Read More + Links
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Brown Hope
Responding to racial injustice through healing justice and hosting a yearly emergency fund dedicated to healing and resilience by providing resources and directly impacting lives. Read More + Links