SR 2010 Annual Report

STREET ROOTS 2010 ANNUAL REPORT Moving forward, looking ahead elcome to the 2010 Street Roots Annual complexities of homelessness, while never backing away Report. The past year has been a breakthrough from tough issues. Wyear for the organization. We are proud to be taking journalism and homeless With the great recession hammering our city, SR has advocacy in a new direction in our city. We believe SR is Eddie Zuber, become a go to for Portlanders for many different a vehicle for creating real change in our community. We Street Roots vendor reasons. It’s easy to feel helpless, or to not understand believe that by offering solution-based ideas, programs how to help during these hard times. SR serves as an and conversation, we will be able to break out of the important tool that offers tangible and proactive ways to derogatory stereotypes that have built up over the past make a difference. three decades around the issue of homelessness. In For people on the streets and experiencing poverty, short, there is hope, and together we will continue to it has become a stopgap tool to create stability and get make a difference, one newspaper at a time. off the streets or avoid homelessness. We’ve had people walk through our door who have been homeless for Sincerely, years, and others for only days — people who sell the newspaper on the weekends after working one or two part-time jobs to maintain their housing, health care and their quality of life. From a reader perspective, SR has become an Israel Bayer important tool in understanding and engaging in the Executive Director issue. The newspaper and vendor program allow thousands of Portlanders to become proactive in the fight against poverty. Whether that’s building a relationship with someone on a street corner or becoming educated and learning how to take action through reading the newspaper. This past year, SR became more of a leader on the poverty and social justice front. We led campaigns in partnership with government to start counting individuals who pass away on the street. We helped ease tensions on sidewalks through the sales of the newspaper and by creating a poster campaign to educate panhandlers in the city. We also continue to call for a long-term revenue stream for affordable housing in our region. We exposed a group of right-wing Catholics that are driving the defunding of social justice organizations in Portland and around the country, including SR. We have helped facilitate conversations among non-traditional partners to help understand the “Street Roots is the definition of a great Street Roots Vendor Program social enterprise -- a publication that tells ore than 70 vendors buy and sell Street Roots create income for individuals that haven’t traditionally had daily in the Portland metropolitan area. Between access to Street Roots. The move also allowed the real-life stories even as it changes peoples’ M18,000 and 23,000 newspapers are sold each organization to streamline individuals selling the newspaper lives. As the mayor of this great city, I am month. Street Roots served more than 400 individuals to have access to the supportive services they need, experiencing homelessness and poverty last year. incredibly proud to count Street Roots including getting housing. In 2010, Street Roots, with the Selling the newspaper gives individuals experiencing help of community partners, connected hundreds of among our community’s chorus of media homelessness and poverty immediate income, while helping individuals with housing, employment, recovery and health improve people’s quality of life. care resources, case management and so many other voices. Keep doing what you’re doing.” While the income generated from the sales of the building blocks toward security. Just as important, the newspaper is an important and vital component of the — PORTLAND MAYOR organization helped another prevent approximately 150 SAM ADAms vendor program — it also gives many individuals the ability to connect with the larger community and build individuals from becoming homeless. relationships with readers, supporters and businesses. By Street Roots is proud to be facilitating dialogue between creating a path to self sufficiency, including skill the larger community and people experiencing development, resume building and fostering self-respect homelessness and poverty on street corners throughout the and a sense of personal worth, we are making a difference city. Both through the vendor program and the newspaper, in the lives of people on the streets. we continue to change the way the region thinks and acts In 2010, Street Roots opened a satellite office with our on the issue of homelessness. From all the vendors at community partners at JOIN in East Portland, and helped Street Roots, we thank you for your support. New year brings new opportunities ith every edition, Street Roots seeks to men in uniform. Our circulation continues to reconnect journalism with one of its rise each year, just as the number of vendors Wfounding principles of empowering increases with each passing month, both people with the knowledge and understanding to indicators of the times we live in. The world is make a difference in their world. awash with information about social justice and We can only do that on the strength and poverty, and there are a hundred ways to access diversity of a hundred or so volunteers, including it. Street Roots works to provide both context the members of our Editorial Committee, our writers, photographers and copyeditors. All of and the opportunity for people to overcome them have a hand in making Street Roots better complacency, get involved and create change. We with each passing season, as do the hundreds of will be doing that not just through the vendors who take each edition the extra mile. newspaper, but also with a new website that will In 2010, we received three first-place awards expand our coverage in news and commentary, and a third-place award from the Society of and provide new ways readers and writers can Professional Journalists Oregon-Washington get involved. Chapter, and we were honored with an award for We’re not content to say this is as good as it our journalism from the North American Street gets. That’s not our style. We are excited about Newspaper Association. the coming year and what it will bring, and we Street Roots is finding more readers by hope to share it with you with every edition of investing in our journalism, diversifying our Street Roots. Thank you for that opportunity. coverage with new columnists, and expanding our pool of talented writers — on and off the streets — to keep Street Roots as the unique, Joanne Zuhl must-have source for news and perspective in Portland. Among them is a new column by Portland Police Officer Robert Pickett, who talks about the streets from the perspective of the Managing Editor STREET ROOTS 2010 ANNUAL REPORT Street Roots is proud to introduce you Cohen-Alpert, Diane Gauger, Chris and Leighton, Lee Jorgensen, Charles and Frances MacLeod, Ian B to all of the Street Roots supporters who Cohen, Cassie Gay, Maia and Conrad, Paul Joy, Kathleen and Robert Madias, Michael support the work of the vendor program Cohrs, Elisabeth B Gelles, Erna G Joy, Zach Malagon, Christina J and newspaper along with the Rose City Connor, Cathleen P Gerrard, Martin and Patricia Juntunen, Camille Margolis, Greg Resource. Conroy, Michael and Christina Gerrard, Stephen Kafoury, Deborah Marino, Casadi For such a small organization — we Constans, Mary Ann Gersh, Jeffrey Kafoury, Stephen and Marjorie Mark, G and Shuford, Marcia are proud to have a such a broad and Cook, William Gibson, Colleen F Kanbergs, Aija G Markewitz, Carol diverse funding stream that reflect Cooper, Justine Gin McCollum Kassel, Steven Marsh, John and Kathleen individuals and businesses, churches Cooper, Steve Glanz, James and Judy Keating, Jane Martin, Barbara and foundations, non-profits and Costello, Carrie M Gogoleski, Valerie Kelly, Terese A Martinez, Joseph government. Cover, John and Kathlene Goldberg, Marshall C Kendrick, Erin Martinsen, Matthew We thank you for your generous Cox, Kate Goldschmidt, Ellen and Dworkin, R Kennedy, Heather Mason, Christine support. Crisamore, Jeff Gonsalves, Annaleeta A Kennedy, Penny Matheson, Jen Crocker, Melissa Goodell, Erinne Kerr, Laura Maxwell, Steven L Individual donors Culp, Sara Goodrich, Ian and Berg, Virginia Killian, Wayne McCarthy, Charles (up to $249) Dalsemer, Terry A Goodwin, Joan A Kimmelfield, Neil and Helen McCarthy, Timothy Daly, Mary Goracke, Monica A King, Valerie McCarty, Gregg A and Henell, Karen R Adams, Noel and Hitch, Zoe Daly, Siobhan Gray, Colin Kirk, Cynthia McClarty, Joanne Al-Saeed, Aesha Lorenz Daniel, Bridget Greenberg, David Kitson, Edward McCloud, Gerald Alexia, Raymond and Gayle Davenport, Dan and Lucy Greene, Jack Klein-Kuhn, Joshua D McCormack, Shaunene Allen, Lucy Davidson, Sue Bradley Greenleaf, Jenny Kline, Ed S McCracken, David Ames, Elizabeth Davis, Don and Takeuchi, Diane Greist, Arjuna Kline, Nancy and Wayne McCreary, Jack F and Carol Anderson, Gary Davis, Ian Griego, Walter R Knaebel, Andre McCrow, Kaisa M Anderson, Gregory and Watts, Susan Davis, Peter and Karen Griffen, Cynthia A Knox, Lynn and Klink, Howard McDonald, Tee Anderson, Janet and Marc Dean, Joseph Grisham, Elka J Koch, Anne McDougall, Patrick and Elizabeth Anderson, Melissa Decker, Richard and Judy Groth, Edward Kolar, Curtis McDowell, Katherine A Andrejco, Marlene Deibert, Ryan Grover, Geraldine W Kopp, Warner McGuire, Natalie Andrews,

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