Street Roots • July 31-Aug. 6, 2015
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Supporting great causes, one scoop at a time
"V T T 7 ^ aL do Street Roots, Planned Parenthood and
community would be part of the
business plan,” says Jodie
Ostrovsky, owner of What’s the
Scoop? “I came up with the fundraising program as a
way to let us contribute to the organizations we
support. I knew it would be a long time before we
could write a big check, but the fundraising program
still lets us make a significant contribution.”
This month What’s the Scoop? will be supporting
Street Roots
In 2010, the Catholic Campaign for Human
Not long after the Catholic Church pulled funding
from Street Roots, Providence Health Care System, a
Catholic hospital, followed suit by declining to give
Street Roots an annual sponsorship and hygiene
items for vendors. Sources also told Street Roots that
the hospital giant asked emergency room doctors,
nurses and social workers to stop distributing the
guide to patients, specifically because there were
abortion services listed in the guide.
Besides losing funding and getting bombarded with
e-mails and online comments by anti-abortion
activists, some amazing things came from the ordeal.
One example was the story of a group of nuns
secretly collecting money among their peers and
donating it to Street Roots. Another was watching the
community come out to support both Street Roots
and Planned Parenthood.
To this day the Catholic Church has never
apologized to Street Roots or attempted to partner
with the organization.
That hasn’t stopped Street Roots from continuing
to publish Catholic-based services in the resource
guide and partnering with local parishes who
continue to serve the poor.
Street Roots isn’t the judge or the jury; we simply
want people to have access to information and
services that are available to them, including all faith-
based services and services that offer health care,
including abortions. We believe information is power,
regardless of your religious or political beliefs. We
also firmly believe in a woman’s right to choose and
having access to health care.
Readers now have a chance to support both Street
Roots and What’s the Scoop? for continuing to make
D evelopm ent and th e Archdiocese of P ortland pulled
a Brave stand and doing w hat’s right for our
between $5,000 and $10,000 worth of annual support
from Street Roots for listing Planned Parenthood in
our Rose City Resource guide.
The Rose City Resource is a pocket-sized booklet
listing 300-plus resources for people experiencing
homelessness and poverty. Street Roots publishes
more than 160,000 guides annually, to be distributed
to nearly 400 community institutions.
Street Roots published an investigative report two
months after the church pulled its funding from the
organization. The report revealed that dozens of
CCHD-funded organizations had been investigated
and labeled “anti-Catholic” by a reform movement
Street Roots was one of those groups. The radical
groups had compelled the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops to reconsider how it funds
community organizing.
community. We also encourage you to give a donation
to Planned Parenthood in solidarity.
“We support Planned Parenthood and Street Roots
as part of our overall program to give back to the
community that supports us,” says Ostrovsky. “More
specifically, they are both organizations that do good
and important work by providing resources to people
in need.”
To order your pint of ice cream and support Street
Roots go to street-roots.myshopy.com or to
streetroots.org.
Together, we can make a difference, one pint of ice
cream at a time. More importantly, we can all stand
together, along with Planned Parenthood, and
commit to supporting women’s health and the health
of our entire community. It’s a win-win.
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What’s the Scoop? ice cream all have in
V V common? We all support offering crucial
services to people experiencing poverty and the
larger community, and we all love ice cream.
Unfortunately, we also share the experience of being
targeted by right-wing anti-abortion activists.
During the past month, What’s the Scoop? in
North Portland has come under attack by right-wing
anti-abortion activists who believe that supporting
Planned Parenthood is offensive.
Why would anti-abortion activists target a local ice
cream shop?
What’s the Scoop? supports local nonprofits by
encouraging the public to buy pints of ice cream and
donating a portion of the proceeds to the nonprofits.
It’s a win-win for What’s the
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Scoop? ice cream and partnering
nonprofits. Last month’s partner
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Development Director Sarah Cloud
Development Assistant Ann-Derrick
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Reporters Emily Green, Sue Zalokar,
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Ko, Sam Bouman, Jared Paben
Photographers Diego Diaz, Joe Glode
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Vice-Chairman Brad Taylor
Treasurer Heather Stadick
Secretary Amber Bielman
Directors Rich Rodgers, Michael Anderson,
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Ritchie, Anders Frederickson, Stephanie
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Baker, Dan Jones, Rob Shyrock, Tom Ray,
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Pollard, Christine Menges, Lee Ko, James Yu,
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