350PDX is strategizing and evolving to navigate the turbulent socio-political landscape we all inhabit. This work is not easy, but our commitment is unwavering, and our current financial challenges have become a catalyst for growth and adaptation. As we get closer and closer towards our goal — $150,000 by August 1 — we’re feeling immense gratitude for our donors, volunteers, coalition partners, and community.

We’d like to share what community members have been saying after making a donation. You can join them all in donating at 350pdx.org/donate. Thank you!

“As someone who was there when 350PDX was just 6 or 7 people around a kitchen table, I am wowed by all it has accomplished and how big and respected it has grown to be. When we started, the climate crisis wasn’t on the City’s consciousness or agenda. But now we can thank 350PDX for PCEF, and so much more, including the fabulous art at rallies and parades. I am proud to call myself a founder and donor to 350PDX.”

Sandy

“350PDX has been the heart of the climate movement for the last ten years. These folks are the connective tissue that binds so many pieces of our movement together into a working whole. They recruit, educate, and mobilize like no other organization in this town. We can’t lose them right when we need them the most to turn our long-standing community priorities into law. Please give generously and ask others to do so as well so we can be there for 350PDX when they need us most”

Nick

“When I moved to Portland I wanted to get involved in the climate movement. One call to 350PDX was all it took and I was immediately welcomed into an incredible community and connected to truly meaningful volunteer opportunities. 350PDX is an essential hub for climate action. Without it, we lose the collective power and the communal joy of our movement. Please donate to save 350PDX.”

Rory

“I believe 350PDX is extremely well organized and effective.  It keeps people in our community well informed in relation to important environmental issues, and leads on ways to respond.  It’s extremely important to support organizations like this right now, when so many threats exist.”

Ronnie

“Since its grassroots conception, 350PDX has been my home base for true climate justice work. It’s the org that I turn to for information, updates, camaraderie, and action.  They encourage me to show up whenever and however I can and when I do, I am welcomed as a valuable community member.  For years, 350PDX has been the eyes and the ears of our community when it comes to protecting our health and safety.  We have counted on them time and time again to organize campaigns, speak up, provide trainings, take to the streets, host forums, support teams, meet with city officials to fight for policy changes, collaborate with other orgs, build meaningful relationships and celebrate successes.  They have never given up because they believe we can win but it will take all of us to keep this work moving forward.  350PDX is in financial distress and needs us more than ever.  We have a chance to show them how much we care by giving generously.  Let’s do this Portland!  Let’s show 350PDX that we have their back!”

Jan

“350PDX has been a trusted and reliable voice for climate justice for over a decade, and we are lucky to have this group of dedicated staff and volunteers working for the betterment of our community.  These folks have spent years building relationships with partner organizations, thinking about and problem-solving local issues, and developing and implementing strategic campaigns.  This focused, steadfast activism is what makes change possible.  350PDX must be financially equipped to not just maintain, but scale up, its advocacy for the long-term health and well-being of Portland’s people and ecosystems!”

Joshua

“I donated to 350PDX because this organization has educated me. I am working to protect mature forests in Washington but I have found that the solutions are going to take every state in the Pacific NW. 350PDX has helped me understand how forestry is being done on federal lands, and how the NW Forest Plan that governs forestry and how it has been misused and misapplied in WA and OR. 350PDX is in the fight to stop construction of massive industrial wood pellet plants that will use whole trees to turn into pellets and ship them overseas. I appreciate 350PDX’s passion and knowledge. We need 350PDX!”

Kate

“Whenever I get worried about our country,  particularly the increasing problems for our planet, I think about how I want to do something. But then I think,  ‘What can one person really do to help?’ Fortunately, one thing I can do is donate to 350PDX and I know it will make a real difference. Amidst all the difficult news this year, I’ve been grateful that 350PDX continues to work on climate issues close to home. When I cannot rely on federal laws to keep our planet safe, and the huge problems feel out of hand, I know 350PDX is doing all they can to help here in Oregon. They are keenly aware of the problems and of practical solutions, of where to reach out and how to do so, to change things. The intelligent, hard-working strategies 350PDX employs keeps me hopeful that things will be okay in the end, that our country will figure it out, and we will be good to our planet and each other.”

Darcy

“350PDX is an amazing organization for so many reasons, and losing their presence in Portland would represent a real blow to the climate justice movement. When I started looking for organizations working on climate issues in Portland, 350PDX kept coming up in conversations because they do such great work on so many fronts.  350PDX organizes Portlanders to challenge Zenith Energy’s oil trains and storage at the CEI Hub, fight for Shade Equity, protect Forest Park from PGE’s Harborton plans, make day-long lobbying trips to Salem during the legislative session, and to vote for a new, progressive, climate conscious city council, among other things!  There are few organizations in the city that organize across so many fronts and so successfully, and 350PDX does it by bringing together different groups of people and organizations to work collaboratively on commonly-held climate justice goals and campaigns.  Their monthly action nights, the book club, the various campaign teams, and the friendly, welcoming atmosphere that surrounds them makes it an invaluable community resource, drawing us all together to fight for what we know is both possible and just. I would be lost without this sense of shared vision for the future –  that is why I’ve become a monthly donor to save 350PDX and hope that many others join me soon!”

Donna

“I’m a 77 year-old life long Portlander, currently living in an old Portland Neighborhood in NE Portland.I love my City of Roses and am committed to preserving all the Natural Resources that define our City and State. I have been politically active @ various points in my life with preserving the Environment my top priority. I learned of 350PDX about 4 1/2 years ago and joined at that point. I got involved in the City/County Watchdog Team that is now the Policy Team that focuses on City, County, and State Legislation. The knowledge, the expertise, and the commitment to preserving our rivers, streams, forests, parks is unparalleled. The long hours during research, working in coalition with numerous other Environmental Groups, planning events, and testifying before City Councils and the State Legislature is beyond anything I could have imagined before I joined! Now, 350pdx is experiencing a budget shortfall. I had to do something even tho I am a low income Senior. I recently donated $20 and will continue to make small donations moving forward.  EVERY little bit helps! I encourage anyone reading this to give what you can knowing that every donation will help 350PDX continue their work and help save our planet for all generations. Thank you!”

Babs

“I came directly from the Occupy Movement to 350PDX when it was just forming to make people in the Greater Portland area aware of climate change. That nothing will live on a dead planet. And we certainly did. We canvassed. We educated the Big Banks loaning money to the oil/gas/coal industries. We stopped their tanker trains with gardening on the tracks. Blocked an icebreaker from leaving the Swan Island repair yards to open an Arctic passage for Big Oil with kayaks/canoes/rafts. Exposed mutual investment firms funding polluters and drillers. Lobbied state and local governments to tightening environmental regulations for waterways, soil, and air. Though I’m too disabled now to participate and just had significant financial reverses, Bernie Sanders taught us activists that small sums—the “widow’s mite”—keep vital programs going. Every dollar counts!!”

Barbara

“I’ve been part of several organizations over the years and I keep coming back to 350PDX because this small group of dedicated staff 1) Creates campaigns that always are well-planned and organized, 2) Holds useful, interesting, and well attended educational events, and 3) Collaborates successfully with other organizations to increase the impact of all climate advocates. Losing any of its resources would not only be a major loss to those working for positive change, but it would also be a major win for those poisoning our City and State for short-term profit, power, and the fiction of endless growth.”

Brian

“In these crazy times in which we find ourselves, we are who we’ve got to save this beautiful place we live in. For years, in so many fights that matter in our community, from stopping Zenith’s bomb trains to preventing PGE from clearcutting in Forest Park, 350PDX has been there. I was lucky enough to paddle out with 350PDX and the Mosquito Fleet in the Stop Zenith action, one of the most joyful acts of resistance I have participated in in years. Thank you for bringing the joy. We can’t go backwards. We have to hold each other up and move forward and keep winning all the fights we can win. So that’s why I donated.”

Tania

“I’m so grateful that 350PDX exists to take action on the issues I care deeply about—especially when I don’t always have the time to show up myself. Knowing there’s a group fighting to protect local treasures like Forest Park and pushing for climate justice makes me feel hopeful. Supporting 350PDX means supporting the kind of future I want to live in.”

Madeline
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“Lately, with everything that’s going on, with the accelerating climate crisis, many of us are teetering on the brink of hopelessness.  Hope is not easy.  Hope is hard work.  It’s a commitment to fight for each other and for a future worth living.  That’s exactly what 350PDX does: taking action to fight for climate justice, end local fossil fuel infrastructure, protect our forests, develop legislation, educate our community, and more.  They’ve done SO much important work, building a strong and vibrant climate action movement here, and we need them to keep going.   Please donate generously to help keep 350PDX an active organization in our community!”

Ted

“The news that 350PDX is threatened hits me hard. Global warming is too frightening to face by myself. I rely on the 350 community to bolster me and equip me for meaningful action. The weekly newsletter provides me with accurate information which empowers me take strategic action to in a timely manner. The knowledge that I’m advocating along with thousands of other climate activists buoys me.

The 350PDX community helps protect me from burn out. It’s like being in a choir. When I need to, I can take a breath knowing that while I do, the choir sings on.

I’ve had the grand experience of helping carry the Art Team’s magnificent puppets in parades this year. It’s so fun to see the excitement on the children’s faces and so rewarding to have strangers come up and thank us for bringing the climate message to the parades.

Please consider making a donation to help 350PDX weather this storm.”

Joan

“I only recently got involved with 350PDX through the arts team (volunteering at parades and going to a couple of art build sessions) and it’s been such a great experience! Helping to create art and meet others in the community has felt so joyful and energizing, and it’s really helped to emphasize the fact that I can be more impactful with regards to the climate crisis working as part of a local collective rather than as an individual.”

Anita

“I deeply appreciate 350PDX’s creativity, leadership, and moral clarity—from challenges local to global. We need it. If you have the means, please join me in making a donation, knowing that your gift will join others to collectively support an organization doing tremendous work we can’t lose.”

Noelle

“I’ve been a member of 350PDX for many years and deeply value this organization. If there was ever a key time to stretch and give whatever we can in whatever ways possible, this is it! I encourage all of us to give as generously as possible now so 350PDX can continue to support all the great climate work that’s being done.”

Jan

“The effects of global heating are becoming more noticeable as we continue to break temperature records across the globe. 350PDX is a vital organization providing education to the general public, exposing the flaws in our societal systems. Please donate to 350PDX to keep climate issues in the spotlight.”

Shawne

“350PDX keeps me informed about what is happening locally and how I can help stop harm and help create conditions for life to flourish here and in circles around us.”

Karen

“As someone with a deep concern for climate justice and our need to divest from fossil fuels, I’ve come to know that 350PDX absolutely shares my values and engages in local environmental causes that are critically important.  I highly encourage anyone who can to provide financial support to this incredible organization. They’ll make you proud!”

Shawn

“As an activist with Extinction Rebellion, I work closely with 350PDX on all kinds of projects–stopping Zenith, the broader CEI Hub issues, our Rumbles on the River, stopping NW Methane–the list is long.  I urge you to join me in contributing to 350PDX because they are such an important part of our climate justice ecosystem. The work 350 does is vital and needs to continue. 350’s role in the recent mobilization to comment on Zenith’s air quality permit on May 12th is a prime example. Please contribute what you can to support 350PDX.”

Margaret

“350PDX matters because they closely monitor policies and events that impact our local and regional community, distill the relevant details, and provide a framework in which community members can join together in collective action. The health and preservation of our natural environment and our own health is too important to leave to chance. Support 350PDX!”

Tullan

“I believe in keeping our grassroots activism machinery strong—these are challenging times so it’s more important than ever to sustain and build our critical community institutions like 350PDX!”

Brandon

“I support 350PDX because it is our local connection to a global movement struggling with the increasing threat of climate change. We are up against powerful forces determined to escape the necessary, sometimes painful changes we need to make to protect life on this planet.”

Elaine

“350PDX is an essential part of the community’s growing movement for environmental and social justice.  Their leaders are our leaders, bringing together a hugely diverse coalition and mobilizing us into urgent action, over the years and even just yesterday.  I urge you to join me in supporting their critical leadership work.”

David

“I can’t imagine the climate community here without 350PDX!  The fabulous staff are always there – supporting volunteers, coordinating with other organizations and welcoming people who are newly interested in taking action.  Let’s keep them strong with generous donations!”

Melanie

“350PDX is an important organization working on the most crucial issue on earth: climate catastrophe. We have an administration that is stupidly, cruelly and corruptly doing its worst to increase fossil fuel use. We need 350PDX to resist these efforts and protect the planet.”

Teresa
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“350PDX has accomplished quite a bit since they started in 2013 and have built a solid reputation as an organization committed to climate justice.  The loss of 350pdx would be a huge blow to the climate movement in Portland, which is why I did not hesitate to donate money in their time of need.  Please support 350pdx by donating whatever you can to keep their doors open and their excellent work ongoing.”

Mark

“There’s plenty to concern us in the foreground–war, politics, money, health. But in the background is the big one: Climate! Those other concerns pale beside the impending likelihood of an unlivable planet if someone doesn’t help us all wake up and get behind changing our trajectory toward disaster. And that’s where 350PDX comes in. Their work is the absolute foundation of our future. What’s more important?”

Kim

“I have been concerned about climate change for years, so I was delighted when I knew that Portland was going to have a 350 chapter over 10 years ago. There’s so much appeal of having our own chapter right here in the city. It has been wonderful to watch how the staff at 350PDX have worked on local issues and have recruited local folks to join in.”

John

“350PDX is one of the best organizations in the city at engaging community members and organizing volunteers. From art builds to Pedalpalooza rides to candidate forums, they make taking action for climate justice fun and accessible. And they continuously push Portland and Oregon to do better for our environment. Please donate to keep 350PDX going! The closure of this organization would be a huge loss to our city.”

Laura

“350PDX is my antidote to climate anxiety! It gives me hope, empowerment — and, above all, community. In today’s landscape of divide and division, protecting our climate is something that should unite us across backgrounds. 350PDX works to bring people together to grow the climate movement and do the critical work of protecting our shared home. There are so many ways to get involved, whether you are a lifelong activist or just starting to learn, and our campaigns make a real difference in state, local, and regional policies. 350PDX is like no other community, and I feel so fortunate to have found such a passionate and active group of diverse folks. Please join me in becoming a monthly donor to keep the momentum going!”

Elizabeth

“We are so very lucky to have 350PDX here in Portland. It is one of THE BEST environmental and climate justice organizations in the region. Their stalwart presence is everywhere that climate issues reside. Their leadership has enabled young and old alike; providing opportunities to learn, to create and to act. With their base at the Rebuilding Center, I have had the opportunity to engage in art projects: think Big Puppets! Plus there are the many ways 350PDX continues to keep us informed. They are great collaborators: think Rumble on the River, the many rallies and city council meetings. And, their talented staff keeps us informed with a great newsletter and social media posts. Please support the work that they do.”

Claire

“Taking on climate change can be slow, difficult work; stacking small victory on small victory. The movement can’t sustain that effort without welcoming people in and creating bonds between us. That’s the strength of 350PDX. It’s an organization that connects people and mixes joy, art, and community with the hard work of changemaking.”

Brad

“350PDX does a great job of bringing people into the movement. When I was looking for a place to plug in, 350PDX got me involved and connected with other great organizers immediately, both within 350 and throughout the city at the many different groups 350 is connected with. 350 has become my organizing home, but they help tie together so many movements for justice in Portland.”

Ben

“Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time.  If we don’t get a handle on it, our grandchildren won’t have a future. At age 80, there are limits to what I can do, but I am grateful for 350PDX and all the energetic, creative young people who are keeping their eye on the goal and persevering against the odds.  I am happy to support them!”

Eve

“I support 350PDX because it is the only Portland centric organization that prioritizes battling climate change as its core mission.  Until we face global warming head on we continue toward our own destruction.”

Ellen

“We donate to 350PDX beause there is no other local group who does what they do. They are one of the most effective environmental groups in Oregon.”

Angela

“350PDX provides a platform for those of us who may otherwise struggle to raise our environmental concerns. They amplify our voices and advocate on behalf of our community. It is an incredibly worthy cause, one I am proud to support. Please consider giving what you can to help 350PDX shape a healthier tomorrow for future generations.”

Ruff
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