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Organization
Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
OR, Black, For All
Location
Portland, OR
Black-founded. Black-owned. Black-led since 1981. #blackistheblueprint
Community Focus
OR, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Training & Support Groups for Black Parents.
Community Focus
OR, Black
Location
Portland, OR
The Black Resilience Fund is an emergency fund dedicated to healing and resilience by providing immediate resources to Black Portlanders.
Community Focus
OR, Black
Location
Corbett, OR
The Black Oregon land trust (BOLT) is a nonprofit community trust dedicated to ensuring that Black farmers and land stewards in Oregon permanently and collectively own their land.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Black Futures Farm is both a community-building and production farm, where we grow meaningful relationships alongside vegetables, fruits, and herbs.
Community Focus
OR, Black, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
Location
Portland, OR
We’re a Black led org, all about economic change. We’re feeding BIPOC families with food from BIPOC farms.
Community Focus
East African, African, OR, Black, Burundian
Location
Portland, OR
Happiness Family Farm is a Black-owned farm in Portland, OR.
Community Focus
Femme, OR, African American, Queer, Islamic, Black
Location
Corbett, OR
Hi! I’m Shiny and this is my farm. I grow herbs and use them to make herbal products, but I also teach workshops, run a farmers market, support local BIPOC entrepreneurs, and give back to my community.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
BCP is a Community Based Organization with a passion for networking, sharing resources and collective work.
Community Focus
OR, African American, American (US), Black
Location
, OR
The Black Food Sovereignty Coalition (BFSC) serves as a collaboration hub for Black and Brown communities to confront the systemic barriers that make food, place and economic opportunities inaccessible to us. BFSC is focused on meeting these barriers with creative, innovative, and sustainable solutions. Built on a decade of work of founding members of the Black Food Sovereignty Council and other Black-identified leaders and stakeholders in the Pacific Northwest, the BFSC mission is to ignite Black and brown communities to participate as owners and movement leaders within food systems, placemaking, and economic development.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
, OR
We are a local Oregon-based nonprofit working to preserve and amplify the history and legacy of Juneteenth–founded by the late Clara Peoples, a beloved community leader who organized Oregon’s first Juneteenth celebration in 1945.
Community Focus
OR, Black
Location
Portland, OR
The Skanner is a website and newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Established in 1975, The Skanner News Group has advanced the cause of the Black Press in the North Western United States. Through the newspapers and the Web site The Skanner has provided regional and national corporate advertisers a variety of methods to effectively market their products and services to our readers.
Community Focus
OR, Gender Non-Conforming, Queer, Trans, Two Spirit, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Black & Beyond the Binary Collective builds the leadership, healing, and safety of Black-African transgender, queer, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex (TQN2SI+) Oregonians.
Community Focus
OR, African American, American (US), Black
Location
Portland, OR
Founded in October 2015 by organizers Idris “STARCHILE” Offerall and David “O.G.ONE” Jackson in collaboration with the city of Portland.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black, Settler
Location
Joseph, OR
The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center seeks to gather, catalog, preserve, and interpret the history of Oregon’s early logging community of Maxville, Oregon and similar communities in the greater Pacific Northwest.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
The Soul District Business Association (formerly known as SDBA) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit that has been promoting and sustaining the economic and business development of inner urban North/Northeast Portland since 1977. We are a voice, advocate, facilitator and catalyst for approximately 5,000 businesses and 64,000 residents within our district boundaries.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Our mission is to build resilience in Black communities in Oregon by providing workforce/life preparedness, leadership development and unity.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Women, Black, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
Location
, OR
We are in the business of growing food, community health, business, and community culture around delivery of the triple bottom line to historically absent or barriered communities.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
We are a nonprofit that focuses on projects that socially, physically, economically, and culturally benefit the Black community in EastMultnomahCounty
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Supporting Black Oregonians through policy, advocacy, and partnerships.