Organizations, Support Groups, and Business for Racial Equality in Portland, OR.

    While most of us are either working at home or working hard in the outside world to survive the economic droop, we're are still very much living during a time where people are suffering at the hands of injustice. The best solution for community sustenance consists of a select variety of actions. Below is a list of groups and business that you can support in order to make change in the city of Portland, as well as some resources that can be used to educate yourself on various issues regarding recent events, and the history of systematic discrimination in the city.

PORTLAND ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT
Please donate to the following local Portland organizations who center support for Black communities and consistently offer resources towards a more anti-racist world.

African American Health Coalition, Inc.: Since 1989, The African American Health Coalition, Inc. (AAHC) has consistently advanced health outcomes within Portland’s African American community through an innovative community-based approach to health and well being.
Black Food Sovereignty Coalition: An active resource for Black and African-identified people to connect with sustainable organic gardening and small farming, and build a more equitable community food system.
Black United Fund of Oregon: In 1983, leaders in North and Northeast Portland, Oregon noticed that many philanthropic organizations were providing minimal support to communities of color. To combat this inequality those same leaders started the Black United Fund of Oregon to channel charitable funds to low-income areas.
Care Not Cops Campaign PDX: Care Not Cops is working to end the inherently violent and racist policing of Portland's communities of color.


Coalition of Communities of Color: An alliance of culturally-specific community-based organizations with representation from the following communities of color: African, African American, Asian, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Slavic.
Critical Resistance PDX: A small group of dedicated prison industrial complex abolitionists who decided to start a CR chapter in Portland to help magnify and spread the work of CR and local prison industrial complex abolitionists.
Don’t Shoot Portland: A social justice non-profit that promotes art, education, and civic participation to create social change.
Momentum Alliance: A youth-led nonprofit whose mission is to inspire young people to realize their power individually and collectively and to mentor future social justice leaders.
Oregon Assembly for Black Affairs: Established in 1977 to improve conditions for Blacks in Oregon.
PDX Alliance for Self-Care: Their mission is to connect marginalized and vulnerable communities with self-care resources, practitioners, education, events, and advocacy.
POOL: A network of care that aims to meet the needs of Portland’s artistic community and centers support of BIPoC+ Artists.
Portland African American Leadership Forum

: The Portland African American Leadership Forum envisions a world where people of African descent, enjoy the rights, resources and recognition to be a thriving, resilient and connected community.
Portland Legal and Bail Fund

: The funds raised will be used to pay for bail, legal fees and fines, lawyers, discovery, investigations, personal material support and any other financial needs that arise during the legal process. Funds raised in excess of local needs will be directed to Black-led organizations working in Portland and bail funds supporting protestors in other US cities.
Portland NAACP: Our local branch of the NAACP ensuring the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating racial hatred and discrimination.
Urban League of Portland

: One of Oregon’s oldest civil rights and social service organizations, empowering African-Americans and others to achieve equality in education, employment, health, economic security and quality of life.

PDX BLACK-OWNED BUSINESS TO SUPPORT

Mercatus PDX: Hosts a directory of black-owned businesses in the Portland area.
Support Black-Owned Restaurants: Hosts a directory of black-owned restaurants in Portland.

POLICE BRUTALITY IN PDX

Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon is a film that documents the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members throughout the past fifty years. Watch it for free.

RESOURCES FOR DISMANTLING WHITE SUPREMACY
If you’re seeking resources for dismantling white supremacy, please check out the list below (a start to becoming more anti-racist):

How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Anti-Racism Resources created by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein for “white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media.”
A Compilation of Anti-Racism Resources For White and Non Black Musicians compiled by She Shreds
75 things white people can do for racial justice written by Corinne Shutack

This list started out as an email to PSU students, but we have been encouraged to share it however we please. Send it to your local and even out-of-state friends. Portland has a history of Neo-Nazi and KKK activity, and is a large city that has suffered countless instances of police brutality and unfair law-enforcement towards LGBTQ+ and especially black/indigenous communities. This city needs our support more than ever.