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Right now, the Advocacy and Civic Engagement (ACE) team is tracking close to twenty different bills including a budget proposal. Ten have already made it out of their respective committees and one step closer to passage!

Our Rapid Rehousing Program is helping three households per month move from homelessness to housing through our comprehensive housing placement work. Our most vulnerable community members are quickly provided supportive services that eliminate the toughest barriers to securing housing.

Brown Jackson would bring significant experience to America’s highest court 

The All of Us Chairman’s Breakfast, an event to celebrate the League’s leadership, featured a bite to eat with a heaping side of organizational pride and personal connection between supporters, staff and community leaders.

The Urban League of Portland, a Community-Based, Not-for-Profit Organization is soliciting bids from a proposer or proposers qualified to provide Clinical Supervision Consulting Services.

Join Urban League of Portland in our online, virtual celebration this year on our social media channels.

Only 31% of Black Oregonians are homeowners, and nearly as many -- 27% -- live below the poverty line.

 The new pilot program, called the Financial Empowerment Collaborative (FEC), will foster financial empowerment in Portland’s Black community and provide solid pathways for participants on their path to financial and housing stability and wealth creation. 

 

We thank Senator Merkley for doing his due diligence, for unequivocally stating that Black Lives Matter, and standing on principle in his opposition to the nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as the ambassador to Japan.

A recent juvenile justice reform bill excluded hundreds of people facing long prison sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 18. Gov. Kate Brown’s clemency order will allow some of them a second chance.