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Shop on Amazon – Help a Person in Need!

The next time you go to buy something on Amazon, just remember: Smile. What? No, you don’t need to grin while you add that classy jacket to your cart (but go for it if you like). Instead, make your purchase through AmazonSmile.com! It’s exactly the same as Amazon.com, except that whenever you purchase something, Amazon will donate…

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Mondays at the Mission: Ep 11 – Community Center

Our community center is a relationally-focused, activity-driven haven for our homeless guests to get off the street and spend time in each day. In the fall of 2013, we transformed the chapel in our Burnside Shelter into our daytime community center – loaded with activities and space for homeless men and women to engage in…

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Church Group Serves Dinner, Smiles

One night a month, dedicated volunteer teams from Lake Grove Presbyterian Church armed with good food and fun crafts arrive at Shepherd’s Door, our addiction recovery center for women and their kids. They totally take over the kitchen – chopping, peeling and slicing delicious raw ingredients, cooking them up and then serving them to our residents.…

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Mondays at the Mission: Ep 10 – Connect Opens TODAY!

Connect opens today! For the first time in 65 years, we’re able to offer a program to help homeless women transition from life on the streets into independent housing and employment. Watch Connect program manager Judy Turley explain the program below!  Connect Program: Program has space for up to 16 women at one time 24…

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Mondays at the Mission: Ep 9 – Connect Opens Next Week!

We’re now less than one week away from launching Connect, a brand new program to help homeless women get off the streets of Portland and into housing and jobs. Watch Executive Director Eric Bauer explain the program below!  Facts About Homeless Women: The fastest growing demographic of homelessness? Women and children. Services for homeless women…

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Mondays at the Mission: Ep 7 – Donate/Purchase a Vehicle!

Did you know that you can donate a vehicle to Portland Rescue Mission? It’s another great way that you can help hurting, homeless people get the help they need to get off the streets and into healthy, new lives! “Donating our car was so easy and convenient. Everything was handled very professionally and it felt…

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Shop at Fred Meyer and Help End Hunger!

Helping hungry, hurting people in Portland has never been easier! Thanks to the generosity of Fred Meyer, you can support Portland Rescue Mission by just doing your normal shopping! All you have to do is link your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to Portland Rescue Mission and voilà – each time you use your card, Fred Meyer…

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Freezing Temperatures Threaten Portland Homeless

As temperatures dip into the teens at night in the Portland area, homeless men, women, and children without shelter are at a much-increased risk of hypothermia, frost bite, even death. It’s terrible. You’re freezing. One night I just about froze my feet off. Fortunately someone told me about a warming center that had just opened…

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Donation Needs: Socks, Gloves, & Underwear

  Earlier this week a homeless man came up to the service desk at our Burnside Shelter. He was cold and wet from the pouring rain and needed a fresh pair of socks. Unfortunately, our sock donation bin had run out just minutes before, and we had none to offer him. The most urgent donation…

112 January 30th, 2014 0
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Mondays at the Mission: Ep 4 – More Than A Soup Kitchen

The 4th edition of “Mondays at the Mission” brings you Dave Whiting, the Operations Manager at our Burnside Shelter downtown. Watch Dave as he talks about just a few of the services we offer downtown and invites anyone to come take a tour of our facility to see exactly how we serve Portland’s most vulnerable…

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