Street Books Spring Campaign and 15th Anniversary Kickoff

Street Books is celebrating 15 years of providing books and building community on the streets of Portland in 2025.

Please join us and kick-off our 15th anniversary year with a groundswell of support. Together we can sustain Street Books and our community!

  • Help us meet our goal of 40 new (or increased) monthly sustaining gifts to Street Books during our Spring Campaign, April 1st-May 31st!

  • Tell your friends about Street Books and why you love what we do (like us on social media!)

  • Come to our kick-off event (thank you for RSVPing).

  • Support the amazing bookstores and businesses that support us and others. 

Thank you for being our community and sustaining Street Books into the future! 💕💕💕
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Bookstores supporting Street Books’ Spring Campaign:

Broadway Books

Melville Books - They will use a percentage of sales throughout the campaign and purchase adult coloring books for library patrons. We can never have enough coloring books!

Revolution Bookshop - These wonderful folks, located on Lombard in St. Johns, receive donations and books for Street Books us all year round.

Parallel Worlds Bookstore - A science fiction and fantasy book shop located on Alberta Street in NE Portland.

Annie Bloom’s Books - Street Books folks will be there on Independent Bookstore Day  Saturday, April 26th! They also support us all year round. 

Mother Foucault’s Bookshop - One of our favorite bookshops. Check out their new location at 715 SE Grand Avenue.

Second Shapes Bookstore -  Support this new, independent bookstore, opening April 5th, 2025

Up Up Books - hosting our kick-off event - see below.

Street Books’ 15th Anniversary and Spring Campaign Kickoff Event

When: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 10

Where:    Up Up Books, 1211 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97214

What:      Street Books is celebrating 15 years of providing books and care on the streets of Portland and in the community in 2025. Please join us for our 15th Anniversary Kick-off Event, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 10 at Up Up Books. Featuring readings by three fabulous, local authors we love: Stephanie Adams-Santos, Omar El Akkad and Joshua Pollock.

Light refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP here

We hope you can join us!

This event is free but we are asking folks to consider becoming monthly sustaining donors in honor of Street Books’ 15th anniversary. Regular, monthly gifts are steady income and help us throughout the year! Thank you for considering a monthly gift OR a special, one-time gift in honor of this momentous year. If you are already a monthly sustainer, please consider increasing your gift to help sustain Street Books into the future.

Can't come? You can become a monthly sustaining donor, or make a special 15th-anniversary gift for Street Books, here at any time - thank you!