Justice Partners
Limited Accessibility & New Neighbors
Africa Family Holistic Health Organization : a nonprofit that wraps around Portland’s African Diaspora communities and help each family identify their unique needs and ways to improve their lives.
NeighborlinkPDX: a nonprofit that connects volunteers with neighbors in need for services like home maintenance and other support.
Pamoja House: a nonprofit providing education (ESL and citizenship classes), tutoring, and driver’s education support to refugees and immigrants while focusing on building community and individualized care.
Refugee Care Collective: a nonprofit that provides newly resettled refugee families with immediate support (like “restart kits” of essential household items) and long-term mentorship and community partnerships to help them rebuild their lives in Oregon.
We Carry Kevan: a nonprofit that empowers individuals with disabilities by redefining accessibility as a cooperative effort—supporting them through specially designed carrier backpacks and community connections to enable adventure, freedom, and joy.
Foster Care & Aging
Assisted Living Facilities
Choice Adoptions: a nonprofit that supports pregnant women with no-cost advocacy and also facilitates adoptive placements (infant adoption, foster child adoption, home studies) to create loving, permanent homes for children.
Family Room: a nonprofit whose mission is to provide a homelike visitation setting for children in foster care and their birth parents—enhancing both the quantity and quality of family time with the goal of safely, expeditiously, and sustainably reuniting families.
Foster Parents Night Out: a respite care program that serves foster and adoptive families in Portland by throwing a big party for kids 0–18 one Saturday per month, giving caretakers and parents respite.
Kindred Partners: a nonprofit that creates relational networks connecting churches, schools, nonprofits, and businesses to support vulnerable children and families through circles of care and community.
The Contingent / Every Child PDX: a community-mobilizing organization in Portland that works to uplift children and families impacted by foster care through advocacy, volunteers, and supportive partnerships.
With Love: a nonprofit in Oregon and SW Washington that partners with resource families caring for children aged 0-6, providing high-quality essentials and support to nurture dignity, hope, and community.
Homelessness & Addiction
Charis Counseling: a faith-based nonprofit offering professional therapy and mental-health education, committed to ensuring quality counseling is accessible to all regardless of income.
City Team: a faith-based nonprofit in Portland that provides meals, shelter, addiction recovery programs and holistic support to individuals experiencing homelessness, hunger, and other life-disabling challenges
Garden Space: a downtown Portland prayer room and urban sanctuary where individuals and communities gather for worship, creative expression, and collective renewal in the heart of the city’s Old Town neighborhood.
The Harbor: a long-term residential recovery program for men operated by Portland Rescue Mission in Portland, offering holistic care including addiction recovery, life-skills training, spiritual formation, and stable housing—all free of cost.
Humans for Housing: a nonprofit organization dedicated to affirming the inherent worth of every person and advocating for safe, stable housing through storytelling, education, and community engagement.
Night Strike: a weekly outreach gathering in Portland that mobilizes volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness by providing hot meals, clothing, hair-cuts, foot washing and relationship-based presence under the Burnside Bridge.
Portland Rescue Mission: a Christian-faith-based nonprofit in Portland, Oregon that offers meals, shelter, long-term recovery programs, and holistic care to men, women, and children experiencing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and despair
Shepherd’s Door: a residential recovery and long-term support program for women (and women with children) operated by Portland Rescue Mission in Portland that offers addiction recovery, holistic care, childcare and life-skills training in a safe, retreat-like setting.
Transitional Youth: a faith-based nonprofit serving at-risk and homeless youth in the Portland–Vancouver region by offering outreach, mentoring, housing and life-skills development to help them move toward independent, healthy futures.
Oppression & Injustice | RJC
Civil Righteousness: a faith-based movement that equips churches and individuals to pursue restorative justice, reconciliation, and social renewal through prayer, dialogue, and communal action.
Prison & Re-entry
Coffee Creek
Community of Hope: a restorative residential program in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland providing women and children facing homelessness, crisis, or domestic violence with safe housing, trauma-informed care, life-skills support and a path toward stability.
Underground PDX: is a Portland-based youth mentorship and fitness nonprofit that empowers under-resourced young people to build physical and mental strength through community-based training, teamwork, and leadership development.
Global Justice Partners
We join our global partners in the good work God is already doing around the world. Each week, we commit to pray for them—their leaders and the communities they serve. To discover more ways to participate in their work, click on a partner’s name below.
24-7 Prayer: an international, interdenominational prayer movement, with a vision to revive the church and rewire the culture through non-stop night and day prayer.
Alliance For Children Everywhere: a nonprofit working with local leaders in both Zambia and Malawi to demonstrate the love of Jesus by empowering, strengthening, and equipping vulnerable families and communities through physical, mental, and spiritual support.
Africa New Life: a nonprofit organization that works to transform lives in Rwanda through education, healthcare, and community development.
Alpha USA: Alpha helps create space for honest conversation around some of life’s biggest questions through a series of interactive sessions. Their mission is to equip churches, parishes, organizations, and individuals to help anyone, anywhere discover and develop a relationship with Jesus.
ELAM: a nonprofit with a mission is to strengthen and expand the church in the Iran region and beyond.
Elephante Commons: a non-profit organization in Gulu, Uganda, that functions as a hub for development initiatives by offering a cafe, co-working spaces, and event venues to support social enterprises, education, and other community-led projects.
Kizamani: an organization in Kangundo, Kenya helping community members have access to clean water and sanitation facilities and have best-practice knowledge of healthy water-related behaviors.