Celebrate Year 15 for Street Books & Help us Grow for 15 More
Hey there:
On Saturday, the Street Books staff and board gathered for an Equity study and practice session, followed by a training from Portland Street Medicine on administering Naloxone. We are a tight-knit team and enjoy the chance to be together in the same room, but it's also vital that we build the skills necessary to show up at library shifts ready to support patrons. This essential work is why we are running our Spring Campaign, which goes through May 31st and helps fund our library operations. Our goal is to reach 40 new (or increased) monthly sustaining gifts, and we are currently at 27 new monthly donors! As Street Books prepares to celebrate 15 years of providing books and building community on the streets of Portland, a monthly, recurring donation or special one-time gift is a great way to help us honor this milestone. Can you become a monthly sustainer for Street Books? If you've already given to our campaign, thank you so much! Your help sustains Street Books and our community.
What Street Books Means to Me
When people take the time to be where I go, when people show me compassion, and take the time to listen about the complexities of my homeless suffering, when people bring about a situational mindfulness - a grounding exercise - to talk about such things as my favorite literature & authors that inspire, & then at a later date - I am tended to with more compassionate attention & my favorite books as gifts. It's sentimental. It's a perfect drug to deflect the horrors of situational homeless torture. Just the sticker on the book is a reminder that it came from people who aren't scared to wear the t-shirts that say "Stop The Sweeps." Thank you. (from library patron, Bea)
