Your donation will be matched, Nov. 1-Dec. 31
THANK YOU!
Will you join us today and make space for imagination and connection on our city’s streets?
For this year’s Winter campaign, Street Books selected Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities as our theme. Street Books believes in the transformative power of books for both the individual and the collective.
For many of us here, Invisible Cities epitomizes the impact reading can have on the way we think and relate to our world. Drawing on the book’s unique narrative structure, we will be sharing stories from our work bringing mobile libraries to those living outside and on the margins in our own city in the coming weeks.
With each story, we invite you to join us in reflecting on this quote from Invisible Cities: “seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
Street Books is celebrating 15 years of providing books, resources, advocacy and building community on the streets of Portland in 2025. We’re asking our friends to start a monthly, recurring donation or to consider a special gift to honor this milestone. Regular, monthly donations provide a steady income and help us throughout the whole year. If you are already a monthly sustainer, please consider increasing your gift to help sustain Street Books into the future. We have the goal of 80 new or increased monthly sustainers in 2025 - can you help us reach our goal and stay strong through these challenging times? Thank you for your great support!
AND all donations in November and December will be matched 1:1 up to $10,000. A $100 gift automatically doubles to $200 in support to help us cultivate mutual relationships rooted in dignity and autonomy by showing up every week, year after year, in all kinds of weather, all around the city, to meet people where they are, literally.
We are in Willamette Week’s Give!Guide again this year - with 275 other fantastic non-profits, featuring gifts and incentives for Give!Guide donors and 13 Big Give Days where anyone who gives $10 or more can be entered to win get-aways, dinners, gift certificates and more!
Give through Give!Guide November 1 - December 31st and support Street Books and others doing vital work in our community - all while participating in a fun, powerful giving community.
There are still THREE ways to give:
Through Willamette Week’s Give!Guide November 1st through December 31st!
Mail a check to Street Books, PO Box 13642, Portland, OR 97213
Thank you to all of the generous and committed donors providing a matching gift for this campaign. We appreciate you! Many warm thanks to the following stellar partners: Karen Russell, Steven Smith Teamaker, Annie Bloom's Books, Elizabeth Haidle, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, Obon Shokudo, Ground Score Association, Hygiene 4 All, Portland Literacy Council, Bold Work Collaborative, XRAY FM, Write Around Portland, Street Roots, and Rose Haven. Thank you for generously partnering with Street Books for the 2025 Give!Guide and for all you do for our communities and to make the world better for everyone!