Our community has shown incredible generosity, and we’re just about $100,000 shy of our $1 million Emergency Appeal goal. Every dollar makes a difference, and your gift today helps keeps people housed, supports vulnerable neighbors and ensures critical services remain open across Oregon.
Our Emergency Appeal has raised nearly $900,000 toward our $1 million goal. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who has given so far. Thank you. 🙏 Gifts are still coming in, and with your help, we can close the final gap.
No donation is too small. Every little bit helps us keep hope alive.
When you give, you help keep families together, neighbors safe and essential services open across Oregon.
What your gift powers right now.
For immigrants and mixed-status families:
- Know Your Rights workshops and legal information sessions in schools and community centers
- Low-cost legal consultations and help preparing applications for lawful pathways, such as family petitions, humanitarian relief, VISA applications, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) paperwork and work authorization
- Translation/interpretation, document prep and referrals to trusted partners
For refugees and newcomers:
- Welcome services during the first months in Oregon: safe housing placement, case management, school enrollment and healthcare connections
- English classes, job readiness support and transportation so families can get to work and cultural orientation.
- Trauma-informed community groups hat rebuild trust and belongings
For neighbors experiencing homelessness:
- Day-center services through our Housing Transitions Program: meals, showers, laundry, lockers, mail services and connection to housing for homeless women, our most vulnerable population.
- Short-term rent/utility assistance that prevents eviction and keeps people stably housed
- Bridge and transitional housing (including Chiles House) with onsite job training and benefits assistance
A few examples of impact:
- $25-$50: hygiene kits, transit passes, diapers and winter essentials
- $100-$250: a legal clinic appointment, document support, a week of meals at our day center, a move-in box of household items for a homeless person leaving the streets and moving into housing
- $500-$1000: emergency rent assistance to prevent an eviction or help a family or homeless individual secure housing
If you’ve been meaning to give, or can share this appeal with a friend, now is the moment.
Prefer monthly giving? Sustaining gifts help us plan and protect services year-round.
Thank you for standing with immigrants, refugees and neighbors experiencing homelessness. Together, we can keep hope alive.