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• Partially decomposed body found in Clark County homeless …
• Men’s Residential Program
• Study finds better outcomes in village, motel shelters
• Our mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity.
• Blanchet House provides meals, housing and a sense of self-worth: Season of Sharing 2020

Showers was told they told the building for a little more than $1 million and they split the money between 30 local organizations. Please go to BlanchetHouse.org for the exact date that incentives are offered to donors. At Blanchet House & Farm, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. We strive to foster belonging and empowerment while serving aid to our diverse community. We listen to learn and facilitate a culture where diversity and inclusivity are valued and celebrated. We met Leonard, an elderly man who lives in a tiny apartment infested with bed bugs.

Partially decomposed body found in Clark County homeless …

Nonprofit aid groups rely on individual donors like you to operate. Your financial support is critical to services being offered to people in desperate need. Keeping your clothes clean and dry when you’re homeless is a daily struggle.

Men’s Residential Program

Since then, Blanchet has grown to provide clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs to thousands of people every year downtown and at a farm. A way you can help people experiencing homelessness is by volunteering with an aid group. At Blanchet House, compassionate people aged 14 and older are needed to serve meals and drinks, organize clothing, and more. COVID vaccinations are required to serve on-site at Blanchet House.

Study finds better outcomes in village, motel shelters

We just stopped getting really heavy donations lately of tomatoes and cabbage, and sometimes it’s like a whole truckload of broccoli. Another thing that we often have to put into the equation is the preppers and the servers and everybody that makes this happen can fluctuate almost as much as the ingredients can. It’s all on having the residents available, having volunteers who are interested in spending time here. That’s a challenge that can happen every day — whether you’ve got those hands — but then not skipping a beat, we still open at the same time every day three meals a day, six days a week. So, it’s just a blessing when it all works out like this, and it does most all the time.

Multnomah County promised to expedite $3M to homeless day shelters last fall, but hasn’t delivered - Oregon Public Broadcasting

Multnomah County promised to expedite $3M to homeless day shelters last fall, but hasn’t delivered.

Posted: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

So yeah, this is my first indoor [service], it’s so exciting. Shahrazi, who attended Wilson High School in Southwest Portland, used to be homeless. He was sleeping on the streets, using drugs and, he said, suffering from schizophrenia. We recognize that this injustice can lead to housing and food insecurity, creating the need for our programs.

Our mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity.

We serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner six days a week in the Founders Cafe. Nutritious hot meals are compassionately served by volunteers. All are welcome to enjoy meals at Blanchet House without judgment. Make toiletry care kits, sack lunches, or collect clothing and sleeping essentials. To alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity. For 70 years, Portland’s Blanchet House of Hospitality has had a mission to help people.

We receive no government or archdiocese funding for programs. A small contribution goes a long way at Blanchet House of Hospitality. After nearly 10 years of planning and fundraising, all the while serving those in need, the Blanchet House board was able to build and open a new building. LEED platinum certified, the new and improved Blanchet House increased our capacity to feed and house those in need.

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They raised money to purchase a 40-acre prune farm in Yamhill County. Over the years, with additional land purchases and land gifts the farm has increased to 62 acres. They built dormitories, public spaces, barns for animals, and a woodshop. There is now room for 22 men to live within a program designed to facilitate recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.

These BHH services, then, must exemplify our commitment to equity, ensuring that those most affected by an injustice have the necessary resources to live freely and fairly. BHH’s founding ideals prioritize each individual’s needs in order to meet all people we serve where they are. We have served over 16 million meals to those in need and transitioned 10,000 men back into society.

Free food and meals are available for everyone to enjoy in the Founders Cafe. One entree (meat or vegetarian) with sides is served at every meal service Monday-Saturday. Blanchet House’s three-year strategic plan was created through an inclusive process involving the Board of Directors, guests served, volunteers, community partners and staff. The goals and strategies reflect an integrated approach to fulfilling our mission as Blanchet House moves forward and continues to meet the needs of many. 10 years after opening, Blanchet House increased the number of meals it could serve and the breadth of services it could provide. Thanks impart to the addition of full-time Executive Director, Al Riley, who served for 38 years without pay.

Your financial support makes a powerful difference in the lives of the people in need of Blanchet’s life-sustaining services. The Founders Café is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner Monday-Saturday. We serve freshly prepared, well-balanced meals to anyone who comes to our doors during meal hours. To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.

Nonprofit Blanchet House receives new day center funding - KGW.com

Nonprofit Blanchet House receives new day center funding.

Posted: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:27:00 GMT [source]

The pandemic forced the nonprofit to shutter its doors, but not to stop service. Without missing a beat, Blanchet House transitioned to packaging its meals and had breakfast service ready the very next morning. Meals are served indoors by volunteer servers at 310 NW Glisan, Monday to Saturday. Your generous donation directly helps alleviate suffering and offers a path out of homelessness.

It didn’t feel like any other place that I’ve eaten to get food. It wasn’t like a sack lunch out of a window or a brown paper bag out of the back of somebody’s car. It was a service where I felt like I could come in and eat at a restaurant.

I started on St. Patrick’s Day, everything was shut down, [and I was] all dressed up, nowhere to go. I came out here from Vancouver, and they were the only place open to do things. I actually came out for six days a week when everything was shut down, but I’ve been doing lunches on Mondays ever since, now for a couple of years.

Blanchet House serves Portland’s unhoused community three meals a day, six days a week. On the Ledge is hosted by Blanchet House’s Emerging Professionals Board, a team of compassionate leaders dedicated to offering aid to people facing housing and food insecurity in Portland. Now in its fifth year, On the Ledge serves a dual purpose of celebrating artists, while raising funds to support Blanchet House's crucial services to the houseless community.