Keeping People Housed and Connected
Write Around Portland’s Spring Campaign
Dear Friends,
The last thing we need as a city is more instability for our houseless neighbors.
I’m sorry to say that that is happening right now. Because for too many, a new home can mean profound isolation.
…they’re in a new part of town…
…sometimes far away from their community…
…disconnected. Struggling. Lonely.
It can be so miserable that many consider returning to live outside. And some do.
Fortunately, thanks to donations, Write Around Portland has strengthened friendships in affordable housing for more than 25 years! And we need your help now to maintain stability in housing. Please consider a making a donation today! Write Around Portland is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all donations are tax deductible.
Valerie, a participant living in affordable housing, said, “It’s very therapeutic to share openly with others and know you are safe. Trust is tough and I really felt everyone was in this together.”
Indeed, we find time and time again that writing and sharing helps us recognize we’re not alone. That we have more in common than not. Some participants even make lifelong friendships!
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!
Wansford, another participant living in affordable housing, told us, “I like hearing of the diversity of others in the group. Got to know them, made friends, and now I can pass them in the building and feel I’ve shared a part of their lives and that I got to share a little bit of mine.”
This was shocking to me: we often find that we’re the only programming offered in affordable housing. That’s because resident services staff are overwhelmed with urgent needs, like helping folks apply for SNAP benefits, locate legal assistance, find safety after domestic abuse, and navigate healthcare and addiction treatment.
Imagine if we could reach every affordable housing property to help stabilize resident communities. This is absolutely possible with your donation today!
By supporting Write Around Portland, you actually do help people stay in their housing. But even better, you help people feel safer, more comfortable, and even find joy among their neighbors.
Your gift will help keep people in their new homes. Please give if you can!
