At our core, we care for and harvest fruit trees that feed and shade our neighborhoods.


Mission
Our mission is to increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.

Vision
We envision joyful communities that see every fruit tree as an abundant resource which contributes to a just food system and enhances the well-being of people, community networks, habitat, and our changing climate.

Values
Community resilience - Fostering joy around shared food and resources; climate change resilience, and skills sharing.

Col(labor)ation - Working in partnership with individuals and groups to address the root causes of inequity and climate change.

Connection - Stewarding and repairing relationships between each other, the land, and our food system.

What We Do
Portland Fruit Tree Project is a grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profit gleaning organization that provides a community-based solution to a critical and growing need in Portland and beyond: access to healthy food and the benefits provided by trees including cleaner air, shade, and food. By empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of urban fruit trees, we are preventing waste, building community knowledge and resources, and creating sustainable ways to obtain healthy, locally-grown food. 

Why it Matters
One in seven Oregonians faces food insecurity. Of the approximately 552,900 Oregonians who are food insecure, over 35% are children. And even more, people struggle to afford fresh produce, which is critical to healthful eating and the prevention of diet-related diseases. Portland Fruit Tree Project provides fresh fruit to those most in need in our community.

Through our Harvest Program and Partnerships, we strive to improve the quality of life for people in Portland through the shared harvest and equitable distribution of one of our city’s greatest natural resources: fresh fruit!  

Our city is also plagued by a history of racial inequity that has led to fewer trees generally in lower income areas, which means that climate change is felt more quickly and extremely in these low canopy areas. In 2022 PFTP will begin working with partners to plant fruit trees and provide care and education around fruit trees in areas impacted by poor canopy cover.

We believe that fruit trees can be powerful tools to build a better Portland and that our programming can be replicated in other regions.

Portland Fruit Tree Project

"Providing relief and recovery in the wake of major disasters, traumatic events and social injustice." -AWB

Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) provides immediate disaster relief and recovery to communities that are in crisis resulting from disaster or human conflict. AWB is committed to creating alliances with local community based organizations and treating all who have been affected - survivors, first responders, emergency personnel and other care providers.  AWB uses community-style acupuncture to provide caring, compassionate treatment in a group setting. This model of treatment allows everyone treated to experience relief from stress and trauma together. When the entire group feels calm and quiet, hope, determination and resilience rises powerfully within it.

Acupuncturists Without Borders

PERIOD is a youth-fueled nonprofit that strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. 

PERIOD. works to end period poverty and stigma through service, advocacy, and education. PERIOD. does this by providing free menstrual products to menstruators in need by partnering with community organizations through our global network of hundreds of partner non-profit organizations, community groups and 400 global PERIOD. chapters each month. Our chapters and partners help us distribute period products to menstruators in need in their own communities, host product drives, conduct educational trainings and discuss healthy menstruation to destigmatize periods. PERIOD. has active chapters in over 40 states and over 30 countries. 

In order to truly end period poverty, we must end the systemic roots of period poverty. PERIOD. works to help draft, pass and implement policies and legislation to mandate period product in workplaces and schools, as well as repeal the discriminatory tampon tax, which adds to the expensive cost of menstrual products. PERIOD. knows that this new generation of youth leaders will solve period poverty in their lifetime!

The PERIOD Chapter network is the core of our organization. Made up of youth activists, chapters are mostly based in middle schools, high schools, college campuses and young adult community groups. PERIOD believes in the importance of centering youth leadership and activism in the pursuit of menstrual equity, and therefore utilizes resources to empower chapters in their local service, education and advocacy planning. Chapters receive leadership development and advocacy training, helping to focus their efforts on providing access to menstrual products to menstruators experiencing homelessness. They also advocate for equitable policies, working with local institutions such as school districts and local government, to provide access to products for those experiencing need.

 

PERIOD. Inc.

Health In Harmony's mission is reversing tropical rainforest deforestation to halt the nature and climate crisis.

WE ARE A CLIMATE SOLUTION.
Health In Harmony is an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity. Using the innovative process of Radical Listening, we collaborate with the experts – rainforest communities – to create the change the planet needs. We do not wait for others to act but hold ourselves accountable for the planet’s future. Humanity must halve atmospheric carbon by 2030, and we are committed to making a significant impact on this drawdown. In order to scale, our work is deeply rooted in monitoring, data, and evaluation. A study on our innovative model was published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Health In Harmony

Elevates Black, Indigenous, all People of Color & the LGBTQ community in the outdoors. We offer resources for queer youth, youth of color and low income youth programs. We are here to provide a safe and welcoming spaces for our community.

Wild Diversity elevates Black, Indigenous, all People of Color & the LGBTQ community in the outdoors. We offer resources for queer youth, youth of color and low income youth programs. We are here to provide a safe and welcoming spaces for our community.

Wild Diversity

Trayarunya Foundation is a nonprofit organization. It is based in Portland, OR. It received its 501C3 nonprofit status in 2017.

The Trayarunya Foundation was established in the year 2016 in India with a motto “Service to Society” and has since then branched out to the USA, and Canada. Our mission is to create opportunities for sustainable change by empowering people through education, enabling an environment that elevates individual potential, and elevating cultures through positive globalization. We are working on education, empowerment, and conservation of our environment. We want to enhance the lives of the less fortunate by providing them with shelter, food, medicine, among other services with a view to promote sustainable development and work on the goals of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is committed to achieving basic needs for all.
Trayarunya’s name embodies these values: “traya” alludes to ‘protection of earth’ or ‘protection of three elements which are air, water and fire; while the word “runya” has its roots in ‘moonlight’ illuminating darkness.

Trayarunya Foundation

Black United Fund of Oregon is a nonprofit organization focused on philanthrophy, voluntarism, or grantmaking. It is based in Portland, OR. It received its nonprofit status in 1983.

Black United Fund of Oregon

Brown Hope is a nonprofit organization focused on community development. It is based in Portland, OR. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

Brown Hope

Our goal is to increase awareness and educate about all things African Elephant.

As soon as we realized just how little people knew about the magic of elephants we realized that teaching was where we would begin. Our intuition told us that if people knew what WE knew, then they would be as passionate about saving this species as we were.

The KOTA Foundation

The Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (ACC&D) advances non-surgical sterilization for pet and roaming cats and dogs,  

Across the globe, there is a tremendous need for new methods of sterilization for cats and dogs that are faster, easier, more accessible, and less expensive than surgery. The Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (ACC&D) works tirelessly to bring together key stakeholders to advance this field, serves as a trusted source for scientific and educational information, and advocates for products to be available to the animals, people, and communities who need them most. We are called to save the lives of unwanted litters of dogs and cats and to reinvent less invasive options for pet owners. More at acc-d.org about this non-profit.

Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs

To alleviate hunger in Lincoln County by distributing healthy, nutritious food to our agency network & education empowerment.

Food Share of Lincoln County is one of 20 regional food banks in the Oregon Food Bank network.  Food Share of Lincoln County distributes food to its network of  local emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, produce drops, senior food box home delivery and other assistance agencies in addition to facilitating cooking classes and farmers' market tours..
