Join us in Commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Today we are celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a day focused on honoring the legacies, histories, and cultures of Native American and Indigenous communities.    On this day and every day, Pride Foundation is committed to lifting up the voices, experiences, and brilliance of Indigenous peoples’, and sharing our gratitude for the way their views and values

3 Cool Things this June: Pride, Celebration, Action

As we wrap up Pride month, I am filled with gratitude for all our community has done and offered to Pride Foundation and to one another this year. As LGBTQ+ communities continue to face big challenges in schools, in healthcare settings, in legislatures throughout our region and beyond, I am heartened by the many forms

3 Cool Things this April

2023 has already held so much for LGBTQ+ communities in the Northwest and beyond. While much of what has transpired has been devastating, I am continually bolstered by how beautifully fierce our community continues to be in the face of it all.   As we continue to take stock of all that’s happening, I invite you

“Home Is My Body”: Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility and Action 2023

Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility and Action 2023  Visibility is most necessary when it makes cruelty, indifference, and irresponsibility impossible. Last year for #TDOV, we asked “what is this the year of for you.” In response, we heard that it was a year of combatting misinformation about transgender people, a year of centering healing and

QTBIPOC Community Care Fund, Scholarships, and Tend Save the Date!

I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so grateful to see the little purple crocuses popping up everywhere after what has felt like a never-ending winter, but friends they are here! (And if they are not there yet where you are – they are coming, I promise!) With these little glimpses of spring coupled with

Dr. MLK Jr. Day of Service through Connection + Action

There are two principles we have been holding especially close this past year at Pride Foundation: connection and action.  These principles are core to who we are and what we do – building opportunities to bring our communities and movements together to take intentional and collective action in the fight for justice. Over the unique challenges

Why We are Rocking the Ribbon

My first experience as an activist (and a fundraiser) was participating in the inaugural AIDS Care Walk in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois in 1993 when I was 9 years old. I learned from my mother, who worked at the county health department at the time, about what HIV and AIDS were, how you could

Our Community Deserves to be Safe

As we were all preparing for Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience, getting ready to speak the names and mourn the loss of too many friends and family who have been violently taken from us this year, more grief and more loss came to all of us.   It is hard to find words after tragedy hits our community

Pride Foundation Joins Oregon Funders Collaborative to Support Immigrant and Refugees

Throughout 2017 and into this year, this Administration has rolled out anti-immigrant measures that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many within our communities. While many of these actions have been and are continuing to be actively challenged in courts, legislation, and through direct action, the impact on the communities targeted has been dire.

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