Initiatives
Our neighbors want a place to earn, learn, and belong. We are always looking for more ways to collaborate and build prosperity in our communities.
Rockwood is Oregon’s poorest large community. We work with our neighbors to make it a place for everyone to earn, learn, and belong.
Formed in 2021, East County Housing works to improve access to economical, safe, and affordable housing in East Multnomah County.
ECCH is a permanent, self-sustaining team that improves the health outcomes of East Multnomah County. We are a diverse group of Community Health Workers (CHWs) that are led by a professional staff, and are integrated into the Community Development Corporation of Oregon’s networks.
We use food, nutritional education, business incubation, and agricultural development to help our neighbors attain better health outcomes, greater equity, and more prosperity.
Graduated Initiatives
These initiatives are those that have found success and have been spun out to our community members where they can be run sustainably and locally.
The Shalom Network
A Shalom Network of churches is a diverse collaborative of 43 faith-communities. They share resources and initiatives connect our neighbors together.
Successfully spun out to a diverse, local leadership team in 2018.
In 2018, we developed the model for a legal aid clinic. In 2019, a group of Shalom Network Churches used elements of our model, which grew into Immigrant Connection PDX which launched with the formal support of the Department of Justice.