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 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Friedman, Jeff Jackson, Timothy and Zarina Lyons, Heather Oleson, Matthew C Clark, Mary Fritsch, Lauri Jeffreys, Suzy Lyons, Kathryn Opperman, Paul and Suzanne Clarkson, Kathleen Fulop, Mark Jesperson, Andrea K Macdonald, Nicholas P Ornelas, Linda Clopton, Mike and Gayle Gandolfi, Robert Johnson, Downer Macfarlane, Leith Osborn, P Coble, Stephen and Waring-Coble, Yvonne Gardner, Maggie Jolin, Marc and Smock, Kris MacKenzie, Joe Pacios, Mary Cogan, Arnold and Elaine Garrett, Kenneth and Sharon Jones, Caroline Maclean, John and Patricia Pallari, Barbara

“This paper is truthful and Revenue: $249,889.32 Expense: $184,931.45 straightforward. I’m Newspaper sales: 11.5% Newspaper & vendor program: 59.1% honored to write and sell Individual donations: 18.6% this paper. All of the people Rose City Resource: 26.3% involved in this organization Foundation support: 38.7% Administrative: 14.7% care deeply about how we Government (Rose City Resource): 14.3% present ourselves and how Business/corporate support: 6.4% we can make real difference Advertising, subscriptions: 3.7% in our community.” Sponsorships: 4.2% — Sam Al-Jondi, vendor and writer Event: 2.6% Street Roots 2010 Annual Report

Watt, Olivia B 52 Selects Oregon Shakespeare Festival Wazeka, Marjorie A1 Self Storage Orleans Candle Company Wearn, Maureen and Frederick Academy Theater Paccini Restaurant and Bar Webber, Yael and Benjamin Ain’t Misbehaving Patagonia Weinstock, Bobby Alberta Food Coop People’s Food Co-op Wells, James and Erica Albina Community Bank Philip Queeley L.Ac. Whelan, Constance M Alexis Restaurant Physical Element Whisnand, Tyler S. Amy Terepka Massage Pilates Conditioning White, Rose R Anne Hathaway’s Bed & Breakfast Pistils Nursery Whitmore, Inez Belmont Library Planned Parenthood Wilkinson, Alison F Binks Por Que No Willet, Catherine Bitch Magazine Portland Center Stage Wilson-Bruns, Michael and Rebecca Bodywise Portland Community College Wilson, Katherine Bolt Portland Patrol Inc. Wingate, Carl and Mary Brewer’s Union Portland Rescue Mission Winship, Elizabeth Casba Coffee Portland State University Bike Hub Wolf, Jason E Casey Neill Portland State University Women’s Resource Wood, Phyllis CC Slaughters Portland Inc Center Woodbury, Anne K Celilo Group Media Portland Trail Blazers Parker, Edith and Larson, Edith Shaich, Harry Woodford, Thomas Chapel Of The Good Samaritan Portland Writers Parmeter, James R Shapiro, Joel and Jane Worley, Marshall Citybikes Portobello’s Vegan Trattoria Patterson, Sarah Shapiro, Roz Wulfestieg, Kristin Clever Cycles Potluck In The Park Patton, Nancy P Shaw, Peter and Ly, Jessica Yarborough, Lisa Clinton Street Video Power & Light Pearl, Kristine Sherwood, Courtney Yun, Christine A Cloud Seven Cafe Power and Light Peter Samson and Robin Schauffler Shipsey, Augusta B Ziegler, Molly Coffee Bean International Professional Business Solutions Peters, Julia Short, Lisa R Ziegler, Molly and Brown, Zach Columbia Sportswear Company Providence Health System (Oregon Health Petersen, Julia and Andrew Shurr, John and Deborah Zika, Derek Community and Shelter Asssitance Corp Study) Pierce, Paul and Fuller, Joanne Signett, Shelley Zuber, E Costco Quality Methods International Pioli, John and Mann, Mary Jo Silverman, Richard Zuhl, Joanne Dan & Louis Oyster Bar Restraunt Rebuilding Center Pollard, Bryan Singer, Ann Dark Horse Comics Recruiter Watch PDX Poole-Jones, Christine Singer, Robert and Luciano-Singer, Lorraine Dave’s Killer Bread Regence Skirving, Joanne Wicked Major Donors: Porch, Kathleen J ($250 or more) Decemberists Rejuvenation Skryha, Vicki Poresky, Aaron L Detour Cafe Riegel Vocational Consultation Smith, Andre Pratt, Jennifer D Anderson, Bruce and Denise Disability Benefits Training & Consulting Safeway Smith, Jenny Price, Naomi Anderson, Michael and Lori Display Name Saraveza Sokoloff, Ann Pruett, Sarah Ansorg, Ed and Zalokar, Sue Dough Nation Self Aligned Bodywork Somers, Jocelyn Pruyn, Gerry Backes, John L Downtown Freddie Browns Sellwood Dog Supply Sosne, Jeffrey and Judith Puckette, Margaret Bayer, Israel Downtown Marketing Initiative Seven Corners Bicycles Spaet, Robert and Linda Purdom, Tangela E Brinckman, T Jonathan T East Burn Sip Spendelow, Peter H Quast, Doug Colbach, Ed and Josephine Enviromedia Buying Services, Corp St Vincent Depaul Society Squire, William and Bennett, Mary Quick, Sara Culverwell, Wendy First Unitarian Church St. Clare Peace & Justice Committee Steadman, Donna Rajbaidya, Gauri S DiBernardo, Devin Floyd’s Coffee Shop St. Johns Bookseller Stevens, B and Graybeal, D Raphael, Dan Dulley, Gwendolyn and Thomas Food Front Star E. Rose Stevens, Don Raphael, Ravid and Arlene Durston, Bob and Holy, Linda Gilly’s Salon Steelman, Bryan and Olberding, Claire Stevenson, Sarah Rathe, Jay and Melaine Fellin, Stephen Gravy Storm Large Stewart, Helen K Ratts, Manisone and Quigley, Sean Frame, Sharon GUMBO Sweet Jayne Stiles, Minda Raymond, Charlie Ganapati Fund Hair M Taproot Hosting Stock, Claire Reagan, Bonnie and Peter Garcia, Arthur HELD Vegan Belts Taste Tickler Stokes, Chiggers Reding, Michael and Barbara George J. Wall, Attorney At Law Hopworks Urban Brewery The Bhaktishop Strater, Jeffrey and Susan Rehani, Manu Granger, Bob and Julie Hot Lips Pizza The Grotto Street, Kathy Replogle, Delores Gravel, Kenneth and Jane Irvine & Company, LLC The ODS Companies Strutz, Toni Reuler, Peggy R Griggs, Brian Jake’s Famous Crawfish The People’s Sandwich Of Portland Suchesk, Amy Reynolds, Lauren Grim, Robert and Fara Jonathan Hedstrom Consulting The Standard Sweetman, Eric and Schott, Penelope Reynolds, Roger Haake, Mary Jane Kahneeta Toys N More LLC Swope, Amber Richards, Bruce E Hawash, Mike and Lisa Katie Todd Trade Roots Tackett, Ashley E Rickert, Linda Hendrickson, Terrie Kenton Library Trader Joe’s Talcott, Diana Ring, Emily Hoffman, Stan Kwamba Productions Tully’s Coffee Tarbutton, Don Rippel, Benjamin Holmgren, Alyssa Lan Su Chinese Garden Voodoo Doughnut Taylor, Brad and Villarreal, Jennifer Ritchey, Diane Holt, Shannon Leo & Company Wabi Woolens Thomas, C Louise Robins, Adam Joyce, Mary Anne Lewis & Clark College Library Western Regional Advocacy Project Thomas, H and Johnson, Elaine Robinson, John A Kaleda, Colleen R Lorenzo’s Ristorante Italiano Willamette Mtn. Mercantile Thompson, Leeann Roche, Nancy Kelley, Patricia Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty William Temple House Thompson, Patti Rodgers, Anita Kovacs, Ruth Lucky Labrador Wingnut Confections Thomsen, Jorgen and Yee, Sally Rodgers, Richard R Kribs, Norma Luis Palau Association Wisconsin Historical Society Library Tibbs, Abby C Rogers, James and Elinore Lampert, Joan E Magnum Opus Wolf Haven Intl. Tilford, David and Nancy Rogers, Maggie Lehman, John and Karen Mark Humpal Fine Art Tinker, Alexander Rogers, Margaret Lensen, Kristin and Whitaker, David McClure, Nikki Toliver, Kristel Rol, Alida and Harburg, Thomas Lumiere, Orion and Alexander Mic Crenshaw Tomaro, David Rosen, Dan Maffei, Greg Mirador Trexler, Robert and Ault, Jane Rotella, Mark T Mauch, Winifred and Folawn, John Mississippi Pizza Pub Trost, Dave Roush, Jon and Joyce McArthur, Lewis A Missy Rohs Trover, Beverly Rubio, Maria Nash, Leah Mother Nature’s Trudeau, Anita Rustwinkle, Linda O’Neil, Jean Muddy’s Coffeehouse Turner, Ann and Bax, Catherine Ruswinkle, Linda J Olski, Jim New Cascadia Traditional Turner, Natalie Sadowsky, Dan and Molly Padian, Margaret and William New Heights Integrative Therapy Uris, Rachel Sander, Leanne Grabel Stadick, Heather New Seasons Market Vala, Gretchen M Sanford, Gail Steele, Stephen Night Lite Lounge Valsamakis, Anya Saunders, Elisabeth Thomas, Kim North, Inc Van Meter, Mia Sawyer, Otis and Jean Van Dyke, Eric and Martha Northwest Natural Gas Company Vardavas, Stephanie Schimelpfenig, Steven Vazquez, Jaime Northwest Pilot Project Vennewitz, Peter Schmitt, Mary L Voss, Stephen NW Burger Vermeersch, Hans-Michael Schurr, Rosamonde Washburn, Donald and Chrissy Oakridge Hostel Vernier, David and Christine Schuster, Louis Watson, Daniel and Emily Old Wives’ Tale Waldroupe, Amanda Schwab, Scott Wetzel, Kris OR Coalition On Housing & Homelessness Waldstein, Ruth and Quinn Schwartz, Elizabeth Zeigler, Amanda and Armstrong, Alan Orchid Salon Scott, Kim A Wall, Jarek Oregon Adventures Sears, Joan Ward, Evan Private/Public partnerships: Oregon Halfway House Sermol, Herbert and Dorothy Watson, Dorothy C Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center

Foundation Support “I’ve admired Street Roots for many years now. Not only does SR provide a job and sense of dignity to its McKenzie River Gathering, $20,000 Meyer Memorial Trust, $19,833 vendors, but the paper itself always contains well- Larson Legacy, $3,500 Koe Family Foundation, $500 written, educational articles and moving, often United Way of Columbia Willamette, $11,000 Oregon Community Foundation, $25,000 heartbreaking poetry. Street Roots offers a real voice Kahn-Ables Foundation, $400 Hoover Family Foundation, $5,000 and platform for Portland’s homeless and lower Starseed Foundation, $250 Kinsman Foundation, $10,000 income community. We have been proud to support O’Callaghan Family Foundation, $360 Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. Foundation $10,000 SR for many years now.” Kathy Chapman Larson Ganapati Fund, $500 Vice President, The Larson Legacy Street Roots 2010 Annual Report

he Rose City Resource is a 4 x 4, 104-page pocket guide of services that exist for people Street Roots Rose City Resource Texperiencing homelessness and poverty in the region. The guide has become one of the most Rose City Resource Sponsors: important tools for people experiencing City of Portland homelessness and City of Gresham poverty, and those looking Multnomah County to avoid living on the Washington County streets. Nicknamed the 211 Information and Referral “Hobo’s Bible,” the guide United Way of Columbia Willamette is an important tool for Sisters Of The Road people to be independent Oregon Food Bank in their search for Portland Trail Blazers services. Oregon Health Study Last year Street Roots Central City Concern distributed 60,000 guides JOIN to more than 180 Potluck in the Park organizations, businesses Office of Neighborhood Involvement and institutions Oregon Opportunity Network Above, vendor Allen Bennett, one of several throughout the metro Transition Projects Inc. who are reaching new neighborhoods on the region. From hospital Planned Parenthood city’s east side. Below, Mary Pacios, Ruth emergency rooms and the Portland Rescue Mission Kovacs and Jan Bayer, volunteer copyediters, public schools to libraries, NW Natural review proofs of the paper before it goes to non-profits and press. government institutions — the guide has become a tool for dialogue and education. One park ranger told SR that before the guide came along, he never really had anything good to tell someone when he asked individuals on the streets to leave a park. Now, the park ranger says he uses the guide to sit down with people and brainstorm ways to help. “It’s an amazing tool.” Street Roots vendors also distributed more than 7,000 of the guides peer- to-peer in 2010, creating an environment where people on the streets can work together to change their lives for the better.

“Street Roots is made up of a group of really special people doing important work that makes a significant impact on the community. In turn, as a volunteer, I feel special. Working among the vendors and writers and staff at Street Roots is a favorite part of my week.”

— Eliese Baker, volunteer

Street Roots Volunteers From copy editors, photographers and writers, to the retired professionals, up-and-coming amateur people who work one-on-one with vendors, to individuals photographers and people on the streets. In many ways, that help update and distribute the Rose City Resource — it represents the class diversity that Street Roots has the volunteer program is the backbone of the come to represent. Our volunteer program is made up of organization. a wonderful and diverse group of individuals — both in Street Roots volunteers range from people on the ethnicity, age and experience. streets to students to professionals to retirees. For Street Roots currently works with around 70 example, on our volunteer photography team, you will volunteers at any one time. If you are interested in find people from the New York Times, The Oregonian, becoming a volunteer go to www.streetroots.org.

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