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Staff visit homeless campers
Staff from Catholic Charities of Oregon visit encampments of people who are homeless throughout the week, no matter the weather.
My Christmas Is Brighter at The Village
I love Christmas time. The days are getting shorter, and the candlelight is getting brighter.
When You Breathe Kenton
In the Kenton neighborhood, where the air is crisp and the streets hum with the pulse of a city always in motion, Christmas holds a quiet yet powerful promise.
Update: 'Filling to the soul'
Nothing expresses love like a good meal, tenderly prepared. Chris Ideson, founder and head chef of CI Lifestyle Meals in Portland, has been dishing out helpings of tender regard at Kenton Women’s Village, a tiny home community operated by Catholic Charities of Oregon.
Deloitte holds workday at village
Five Portland-based employees of the international accounting and auditing firm Deloitte spent much of a hot Friday sprucing up the grounds of Catholic Charities’ Kenton Women’s Village.
Volunteers needed to assist artist
Artist Alicia Schultz will take up her paintbrush at Kenton Women’s Village Aug. 16-17 to add beauty and meaning to a new fence. For security and privacy at the tiny home village, a team of volunteers from Tivnu, a Jewish gap year group, constructed a 10-foot-tall wooden wall at the village entrance. The planks are…
Study: Tiny home villages highly effective
Catholic Charities’ Kenton Women’s Village even more successful than average Formerly homeless people living in pod groupings like Kenton Women’s Village move into permanent housing at three times the rate of those living in more traditional homeless shelters, researchers from Portland State University have found.
‘We used to be your neighbors’
Formerly homeless women address misconceptions about people on the streets Three Portland women who once were homeless stepped forward May 18 to dispel myths about the difficult life.
Amazon donates and hopes to be a job source
Crews from a North Portland Amazon warehouse and distribution center on March 27 donated household items to Catholic Charities’ Kenton Women’s Village, with a promise of more to come. Amazon also wants to create a job pipeline from the tiny home village.
Builders give back
Volunteer team spruces up Kenton Women’s Village Thanks to crew of about 30 employees from the local homebuilding industry, a tiny home community run by Catholic Charities of Oregon got a free spring update.