Writing is our Resistance
Write Around Portland’s Spring Campaign
Breaking News! The federal government recently cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts, and with it, a $10,000 grant for Write Around Portland. This grant was intended to cover the costs of producing our two anthologies this year. With this loss, we’ve been forced to increase our spring fundraising goal to $30,000. Can you help us close the gap with a donation today?
Dear Friends,
I bet you’re heartbroken right now. We are, too.
And yet…we keep writing. This spring, we’re working with some of our most vulnerable community members:
- Recently homeless adults and children
- People in mental health crises
- People in recovery from addiction
In this new reality, we didn’t know if people would want to write. But they’re showing up. And your gift right now will go directly toward building empathy and empowerment among our most vulnerable neighbors.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Write Around Portland relies on donations from people like you. Please make your contribution today. (All donations are tax-deductible.)
With humble materials and expert training, Write Around Portland has been building safer, more empathic communities for more than 25 years!
Please join us as part of this important work by making a gift today.
Our Project: Funding for Fall
As a small nonprofit organization, Write Around Portland needs your help right now. As you may know, our programming is seasonal, and our fall network of writing groups begins September 8!
When you donate to Write Around Portland before June 30, your donation will:
- Help us train 12 volunteer facilitators
- Support 15 creative writing groups across the city
- Provide journals, pens, handouts, and snacks for up to 270 writers
- Facilitate the publication of our next book
- Help us host our Winter Reading & Book Release for over 100 people
- Support the training of scribes and the purchase of adaptive equipment, large print materials, transit tickets, and other supplies to make writing possible for all.
Can you help us make more writers’ dreams come true? Please give today!
If you’re reading this, you, like us, likely believe that Write Around is actively building a better society.
A society that:
- cares for its most vulnerable…
- understands that everyone has a story…
- and listens with compassion.
For over 25 years, Write Around Portland has been quietly and consistently building a more abundant, joyful Portland. A better Portland.
We are experts in this work. We are proud of our history. And we know our role in this darkness.
Your donation to Write Around Portland is an easy way to live out your values. And to FIGHT fascism!
With your support, we can spread compassion like pollen, like seeds and weeds. Respect matters – and you foster it with your gift!
