Kat Carr, VP & Blanchet House Volunteer Some partnerships begin with strategic meetings and formal introductions. Ours began with cookies. Years before Generous-City existed, our Vice President, Kat Carr was walking the streets of downtown Portland during a time when life felt heavy and uncertain for her, with bags of homemade cookies and a simple message tucked inside each one: “ Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people .”  It was 2017 and what started as a q

This famous Three Musketeers quote took on a whole new meaning for me this past Saturday. I had the joy of spending the day at the...

Webster defines stewardship simply as ' managing, supervising, or caring for something '. Others describe stewardship as overseeing and...

Sack Lunch/Hygiene Kit Volunteers For the last few weeks, our team has been running a social media campaign in order to get donations...

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The winter of 2023 marked one of the coldest seasons Portland had experienced in years. We partnered with a remarkable group of...