WELCOMING, EMPOWERING, SAFE HABITATION INITIATIVE WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT
WeShine designs, builds, and operates neighborhood-based micro villages that provide safe, transitional shelter with wrap-around services for Portland’s underserved, unsheltered adults as they prepare to become successful tenants in permanent, affordable housing.
Read our most recent newsletter here.
Just SIX more days til the start of the funnest way to support WeShine’s amazing mission in your end of year giving! WeShine builds and operates micro villages to shelter some of the most vulnerable in Portland’s unhoused community! Now with 3 villages, our success rate is growing in shepherding folks from homelessness to permanent housing. Our approach is built into our acronym: Welcoming Empowering Safe Habitat Initiative with Neighborhood Engagement!
Donate as little as $10 in one or many increments to WeShine or any of the fabulous non profits listed starting November 1st for chances to win awesome prizes!
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We are so excited to announce our participation in the 2025 @willametteweek @giveguide Saint Dame is happy to take over for last year’s Saint Billie Eilish. There are so many great prizes this year from, obviously Blazers Tickets, to Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Big Give Day offerings this year also include Portland Nursery, Coffee, Oregon Wine Country and more.
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We are always beautifying our villages to be lovely and meaningful spaces for our guests and to be good neighbors! We want neighborhoods to be grateful to have a WeShine Village. Here is our most recent collaboration with the phenomenal @gathermakeshelter on a mural for our North Portland village, St. Andrew’s Village! Stay tuned, we will be doing more work on this mural next spring!
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Today WeShine recognizes that our villages and our central office are located on land that traditionally belonged to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, specifically the Willamette Valley and Multnomah County. There are many tribes who are deeply tied to our beautiful region. We can both love this place and honor its beauty and understand the deep harms that were historically caused here.
#indigenouspeoplesday #multnomah #kathlemet #kalapuya #chinook #landback #stolenland #reparations #nativepeoples #firstpeoples
Our October Newsletter is out! Read about what WeShine staff and villagers are up to and our thoughts on the recent reduction in eviction prevention services! You will also find out more on WeShine’s success rates on moving our villagers into housing!
The link in bio will take you to our newsletter page and you can also sign up to read the next one!
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Portland we are rallying behind each other and loving our city! And at WeShine we can think of no other fun way to support the Portland and the Oregon we love by …….participating in 2025’s @willametteweek @giveguide !!!!! Just a month away!
Get excited about coffee, Blazers, Powells, wine country, the Oregon coast, tattoos, Portland Spirit, downtown, e-bikes, free groceries and MORE! It’s just one month away! Also get ready to see more of WeShine’s recently canonized St. Dame! (Taking over from last year’s St. Billie!)
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We had a majestic day at our Parkrose Village on Saturday! Our City Councilor from District 1 @councilorjamiedunphy also came along on our short tour of the village. We held a volunteer orientation with some lovely folks. We adore getting to meet new people interested in WeShine! Join us for our next orientation, we will keep you posted!
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You are cordially invited to see St. Andrew’s Village, meet with villagers and staff and community partners and have yummy food! We will also have some fun games! You get to show up and have fun and it is a potluck! IF you want to bring something click on the link in bio to let us know you are coming and what you are bringing!
#community #communityday #celebrate #alternativevillage #alternativeshelters #unhousedneighbors #weshinepdx #ittakesavillage #nonprofitorganization #pdx #northportland #microvillage
