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Street Roots Rose City Resource
The Street Roots Rose City Resource is a pocket-sized, 104-page guide filled with a
comprehensive, updated list of services for people experiencing homelessness and
poverty in Multnomah and Washington counties.
In the 2016-2017 fiscal year, Street Roots published 180,000 Rose City Resource
booklets, distributed to more than 350 organizations and businesses in the Portland
region.
Affordable housing, front and center
treet Roots is a founding member of the
Welcome Home Coalition. In 2016, the
Welcome Home Coalition played a support
role in helping pass several local revenue
tools for affordable housing in our
community. Those tools included a short
term rental tax, a construction excise tax
and a ballot measure to support a $258
million dollar bond to build more affordable
housing in Portland. Street Roots played a
critical role in supporting these efforts.
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Street Roots is a proud member of the
Oregon Housing Alliance, a statewide
coalition working to increase housing and
homeless services in Oregon.
Street Roots is also a member of the
Western Regional Advocacy Project, a
coalition of West Coast organizations
working to maintain the civil rights of
people experiencing homelessness and
poverty.
Revenue: $708,693
Newspaper sales: 15%
Individual donations: 28%
Foundation support: 20%
Government (Rose City Resource Guide): 25%
Buslness/Nonproflt Support/Sponsorshlps: 3%
Events: 7%
Advertising: 2%
Expenses: $676,433
Newspaper and Vendor Program: 58%
Rose City Resource Guide: 25%
Administration: 17%
Street Roots has $82,715 carried over from our
previous fiscal year In our money market account.
Street Roots and Rose City Resource Sponsorships:
Oregon Food Bank
Travel Portland
Portland Clean and Safe
Transition Projects Inc.
Albina Community Bank
Radio Room
Home Forward
Planned Parenthood (Columbia’
mette)
Central City Concern
William Temple House
Alano Club
Street Roots is proud to partner with
the following foundations:
• Northwest Health Foundation
• Meyer Memorial Trust
• The Larson Legacy
• The Ganapati Fund
• Bright Fund Foundation
• Yazdanl Foundation
• The Wyss Foundation
• The Oregon Community Foundation
• OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation
• The Collins Foundation