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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.
After 2-year pandemic closure, Blanchet House reopens its Portland dining room - Oregon Public Broadcasting
After 2-year pandemic closure, Blanchet House reopens its Portland dining room.
Posted: Sun, 15 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]
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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.
Blanchet House Announces Campaign to Rebuild Blanchet Farm
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.
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Community steps up to help unsheltered people as freezing temps expected - KATU
Community steps up to help unsheltered people as freezing temps expected.
Posted: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Blanchet Farm, on 62 acres in Carlton, provides treatment and housing for men with drug and alcohol addictions. “We’re serving nearly twice the number of meals" – 450,000 this year – "that we were prior to the pandemic,” Blanchet executive director Scott Kerman said. This year, Blanchet’s $2 million budget, which relies mostly on donations, has been stretched thin. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive layoffs across the United States and in Oregon, creating a greater need for the services that Blanchet provides.
In addition to volunteering, there are many ways you can help people experiencing homelessness now. For example, you can volunteer to make hygiene care kits, sign up to make sack lunches, or donate needed clothing today. It started with a simple mission to offer food to the unemployed in Old Town.
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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.
Although we are not affiliated with any religious organization, the founders were rooted in the Catholic community. Blanchet House’s mission derives from Catholic social teaching principles, including honoring the dignity of every person, offering aid to the poor and vulnerable, and solidarity. Our board and staff include persons of various faiths, and we do not proselytize to our clients or guests.
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.
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.
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.
In mid-April, the Port of Portland revealed Terminal 6 would end container services on Oct. 1 after extensive efforts to consider other options and secure more funding from the state. There are so many ways you can get involved to help homeless people. KOIN 6 News’ Kohr Harlan went out Friday to get a sneak peek of this year’s parade.
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.
We welcome and serve meals to everyone with compassion and dignity. Join as a guest, a volunteer, a resident, a donor, or a supporter. You volunteer for three months down in the kitchen serving the homeless and then, after three months, you can look for a job. And then you have four months to save up money and help you transition out. There’s been a lot of changes like with the extra peer support people that are working with the community, it seems like super positive. It takes a community to heal the community and it’s saved me more than once.
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