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Our Mission
We create income opportunities for
people experiencing homelessness
and poverty by producing a newspaper
and other media that are catalysts for
individual and social orange
We're Weekly!
Stieei Roots publishes every Friday
and is available through our vendors.
Our Network
i We’re a proud, member
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(INSP). H ie network Includes more
than 120 newspapers around file
world, each one sharing news and ,
information on poverty and
homelessness worldwide.
Buy From a Vendor
Alt badged Street
Roots vendors
complete s formai
training session with
Street Roots staff.
Buy our newspapers
only from badged
vendors.
Give Vendor Feedback
Tell us about your interaction with a
Street Roots vendor. Fill out a form
online at streetroots.org or contact
Cole Merkel at cole@streetroots.org.
if you have any urgent Issues
regarding a vendor, please call us
at 503-228-5657.
Become a Vendor
Vendor orientations are at 1 p.m. every
Monday and Wednesday, and 11 a.m,
Friday at our office: Street Roots, 211
NW Davis St., Portland, OR 97209
Bose City Resource Guide
The buck starts here
Street Roots and its vendors a r e a powerful, com m unity-driven solution 'to the-problem of hom elessness. O ur vendors
earn their w ay out ot their individual situations through a collaboration of award-winning journalism, local business
partners and their own hard work. Use these four simple steps to be part of the solution.
Meet
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Vendors la Paper ■Informed Action
■ Vendors — the men and
women who sell the
newspaper— are at the core
of Street Roots’ mission. Each
year, more than 400 Individuals
work as vendors with Street
Roots. At any given time,
throughout the city,
approximately 140 vendors are
at work, rain or shine. Vendors
play an active role in the.
■ With the money made
selling the newspaper,
■ Street Roots is an award
winning newspaper focusing
■ Donate to the organization
and give vendors experiencing
vendors are able to secure
basic needs, Independence
and dignity, and work toward
obtaining housing. Vendors
buy papers, as many as they
want, for 25 cents each, and
sell them for $1 each, keeping
on issues of social justice with
coverage on a wide variety of
interests. Street Roots is a
homelessness and poverty a
hand up. It supports not only
member of the Society of
Professional Journalists and
adheres to its standards of
ethics in journalism.
all income and tips from each
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members of the organization’s
Board of Directors. .
the newspaper but our
advocacy efforts on poverty
Issues throughout Oregon.
■ Volunteer your time and/or
expertise and help the
organization grow.
■ Share Street Roots with“
sale.
management of Street Roots,
meeting regularly to discuss
the program and acting as
The Street Roots Rose City Resource is
the most comprehensive, updated list of
services for people experiencing
homelessness and poverty in
Multnomah and Washington counties.
The Rose City Resource is free to
individuals and organizations. To
inquire, please call us at 503-228-5657.
Take
your network and tell people
about the organization.
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Vendor orientations are at 1 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and 11 a.m. Fridays a t the Street Roots office.
Donate Today!
We can’t do it without your help. Donors like you
make if possible to keep the lights on, fund
program s and em power people experiencing
homelessness. Please consider a one-tim e or
recurring donation to Street Roots today.
Mail
Street Roots
211 NW Davis St.
Portland. OR 97209
Give one-time or
recurring donations online
streetroots.org
Thank you!