We work with the following partner organizations providing curated boxes of books and/or librarian services at their locations, enhancing their community-based services and increasing our patrons’ access to books!

Artist Mentorship Project (AMP) - supports youth navigating the trauma of homelessness by creating community, relationships, and music and arts mentorships so that esteem is enhanced, confidence is fortified, and pathways out of homelessness are built.

Blanchet House - (pronounced Blan-shāy) House is a nonprofit social services organization located in Old Town Portland. We make a difference, one relationship at a time, through food, clothing, and supportive housing programs. We serve anyone who comes to our doors without judgment because we believe everyone deserves dignity, hope, and community.

Clackamas Drop-By Youth Era - is staffed by Youth Peer Support Specialists who are committed to helping young adults empower themselves and successfully transition into adulthood. Our programs and services help youth/young adults become leaders in their own lives and communities. We provide opportunities to build leadership and advocacy skills through team-based learning and activities. Above all, The Clackamas Drop is a safe space for young people to feel heard, supported, and capable of creating change. The Clackamas Drop is operated by Youth Era with support from

Cultivate Initiatives - is a nonprofit organization supporting East Portland that works alongside those who have been marginalized to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and supports. They envision communities that are safe, supportive, and full of opportunity. Partnering with the community, we provide services and support to our neighbors who have been marginalized and underserved.

Ground Score - is an association of informal recyclers, dumpster divers and other environmental workers who create and fill low-barrier waste management jobs.  Ground Score is collectively-organized and seeks to be radically inclusive, prioritizing work opportunities for those facing work and housing insecurity.  Ground Score seeks to build a more environmentally and socially aware community, while also changing society’s perceptions of what and who is considered valuable.

HOMEpdx  is a community of folks indoors and outdoors.  They try to live out their vision of “loving people face-to-face” through everything they do.  They are a 501c3 non-profit organization started in 2006 by Ken Loyd, now run by Pastor Bruce Arnold, Cody, and Matt Barney.  They have found that creating an atmosphere from the heart of our core values – home, acceptance, hope and love – is the greatest way to show love.

Hope & Bread Street Church - is new Episcopal community dedicated to the spiritual needs of people living in extreme poverty in East Portland. They care for one another through soul care, regular gatherings, and advocacy. Their volunteers love to cook and share mutual support with our homeless neighbors and friends.

Hygiene4All - H4A works to ensure our houseless neighbors have an equal voice in creating more equitable access to the basic public resources required for human dignity, including water, sewer, and waste management services. We believe deep collaboration with our unsheltered neighbors is a key ingredient to improving the life chances of houseless Portlanders. H4A’s unsheltered team has designed a place of community safety that offers showers, toilets, a health pod, a clothing and bedding exchange, and waste management. We model an effective, healing response to the public health and sanitation crises wrought by growing housing, wealth, and infrastructure gaps.

Laurelhurst Peace House - Multnomah Friends Meeting House - Every day between 1pm and 2pm (Tuesday-Saturday) Peace House distributes hot lunch to anyone who comes by.  They also distribute socks, ponchos, hygiene kits and other items. Between 20-25 folks stop by each day during the hour.

Maybelle Center for Community at Maybelle Clark McDonald Center - creates opportunities for Portlanders to connect and experience belonging. 

Multnomah Safe Rest Village - is a temporary alternative shelter, with on-site case management, amenities, and mental and behavioral health services. 

P:ear  - is a place of self-discovery for brilliant and resilient young people moving through and beyond homelessness. Pear builds community, offers support, and creates opportunities for exploration and personal growth, and admires every homeless young person’s intelligence and capacity for humor and joy. Especially in the face of great adversity.

PDX ID Assistance Project is a mutual aid project created by Paul Susi, who helps people replace lost documents–including Driver’s Licenses, ID Cards, and Birth Certificates. Street Books hosts Paul twice monthly on Tuesdays (at St. Francis Park Apartments) and on Wednesdays at the library shift at William Temple House.

The People’s Depot - is a beverage container redemption center located at 800 SE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97214 (under the Morrison Bridge) that is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 12 pm. It is operated by canners, for canners—people who collect cans and bottles for income.

The People’s Store - is a mobile mutual aid resourcing unhoused people on occupied Multnomah, Cowlitz, & Grand Ronde land.

Portland Animal Welfare Team (PAW Team) saves lives, alleviates suffering, and keeps pets and people together by providing veterinary care to the pets of people experiencing houselessness or extreme poverty.

Rahab's Sister - builds community through radical hospitality with women and gender-diverse individuals marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex work, violence and substance abuse. Since 2003, they have centered our radical hospitality around community meals where trust and friendship can grow. They believe community is a basic human need essential to well-being, and everyone deserves to feel they belong somewhere.

Rose Haven -   provides day shelter, resources, emotional support, and community connections to women, children, and marginalized genders experiencing homelessness and poverty.

Sisters of the Road - Founded in 1979, Sisters of the Road has always been more than a cafe. They have been a test kitchen for ideas, systems, and programs that work to alleviate both the material and emotional challenges faced in the day-to-day life of people experiencing the violence of poverty.

St. John's Safe Rest Village - is a transitional shelter village in St. Johns — with case management, electricity, plumbing, community space, and a fully functioning kitchen — for 19 people.

St. Francis Park Apartments provides affordable studio and one-bedroom apartments in southeast Portland. Street Books has an office and book storage there, and offers a weekly onsite library shift and community gathering space for the residents there, as well as for people living outside in the neighborhood.

Street Roots - Street Roots is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization in Portland, Oregon, that publishes a weekly social justice newspaper sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty to earn an income. 

The People’s Depot - Trash for Peace - is a community-led, independent bottle redemption service for informal can and bottle collectors (canners) born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when access to bottle redemption became limited and people were in critical need of income. The People’s Depot currently collects and sorts cans and bottles at three locations around Portland. Operations are run by canners, as a project of Ground Score, a local association of canners, dumpster divers and others who rely on the informal recovery of discarded materials.

The People's Store - is a mutual aid effort seeking to provide a mobile link between resources and people living outside in Portland, Oregon. We operate an anticapital free store on wheels whose goal is to promote autonomy, dignity, safety, access and relationships. We develop relationships with camps, stock the store according to community requests, collaborate with other mutual aid groups, and update our route every few months to target underserved areas.

Trinity Episcipol Cathedral - includes outreach ministries that transform hearts of worship into hands of service by building relationships with our neighbors in need and by partnering with them to create a healthy, just, peaceful and sustainable neighborhood and world.

The Roseway (Do Good Multnomah) - 

Schrunk Tower - is an 11-story subsidized housing apartment community with 118 one-bedroom homes.  The community serves seniors and persons with disabilities.  Located in North Portland, Schrunk Tower features river views from some apartments and is near the St. Johns shopping and service hub.

William Temple House - William Temple House is a place of healing and hope located in NW Portland through services supporting the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Today our staff, volunteers, and supporters come from diverse backgrounds, and what brings us together is our shared vision of a stronger community.