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Street Roots Vendor
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partners and their own hard work. Use these four simple steps to be part of the solution.
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
Tuesdays and 11 a.m. Fridays at our
office: Street Roots, 211 NW Davis
St., Portland, OR 97209
■ Vendors - the men and
■ With the money made
■ Street Roots is an award
■ Donate to the organization
women who sell the
selling the newspaper,
winning newspaper focusing
and give vendors experiencing
newspaper - are at the core of
Street Roots’ mission. Each
vendors are able to secure
on issues of social justice with
homelessness and poverty a
basic needs, independence
hand up. It supports not only
year, more than 400 individuals
work as vendors with Street
and dignity, and work toward
coverage on a wide variety of
interests. Street Roots is a
the newspaper but our
obtaining housing. Vendors
member of the Society of
advocacy efforts on poverty
Roots. At any given time,
buy papers, as many as they
Professional Journalists and
issues throughout Oregon.
throughout the city,
want, for 25 cents each, and
adheres to its standards of
■ Volunteer your tim e and/or
approximately 80 vendors are
sell them for $1 each, keeping
ethics in journalism.
expertise and help the
at work, rain or shine. Vendors
all income and tips from each
play an active role in the
sale.
management of Street Roots,
meeting regularly to discuss
the program and acting as
organization grow.
■ Share Street Roots with
your network and tell people
about the organization.
members of the organization’s
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.
FIND US ONLINE AT STREETROOTS.ORG
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Vendor orientations are a t 1p.m . Tuesdays and 11a.m . Fridays a t the Street Roots office. Arrive 15 minutes early.
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