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Opening spaces and providing support for people with targeted identities to engage in social uplift within our own communities.
PEOPLE & CULTURE
Building Coalition and holding space for community to organize, navigate, create.
SYSTEMS CHANGE
Training and educating organizations, coalitions, and community groups to advance liberatory practices within systems.
LIBERATION WORK
Programming to Connect Community, Reconnect to Culture, Reawaken our Spirits, and Reimagining and Defining our Futures.
Walking Our Talk…
We honor our Indigenous siblings who made their stand on the hallowed ground at Wounded Knee. We honor our stolen African siblings, who found ways to keep their children fed while teaching them to look the world in the eye. We honor our Latinx siblings who marched in the Plaza de Mayo for the disappeared, willing the world to see. We honor our Asian siblings, who wield leaf blowers against the smoke in our eyes. We honor the brick-throwers, the crawlers up the capitol steps, and the reclaimers of the languages we knew before we grew thorns on our tongues. We honor your stories, your songs, and your survivance. We commit to working toward creating a world that is grounded in the wisdom you’ve imparted to us. We honor your joy, your strength, your resilience, and your vision, and move forward knowing that your gifts live within us all. Your resistance has provided us with a roadmap to liberation. We are still here. And we rise.
What We’re About
Our work focuses on supporting Black, Indigenous People of Color, poor folks, folks who are Disabled/chronically ill, and the Queer/Trans Community. UPRISE does a lot of work through in person storytelling and belonging events, community organizing, training and civic engagement education. Our communities have encountered many obstacles in getting our basic needs met, but as our ancestors before us, we are survivors and so we adapt. We offer online and hybrid events to decrease isolation, develop mutual aid networks, and build coalitions. Our work centers on the concept that we are stronger together, building coalition and community power with those most impacted.
Happening Now
There’s Always Money for War
As many of us sit wondering if our wages will cover bills and groceries this month or whether we can access health care, afford our medications or be denied again for mobility aids the Trump regime jumps to attack yet another country that raises fears and questions if...
Talk the Talk
Manufacturing Chaos
The UPRISE Collective operating and living in the “war zone”...cue, eye roll track. Just to be clear there is no war zone in Portland and we don’t take that language lightly. There are people, communities and countries currently living in the realities of actual...
UPRISE Collective Programming & Community Education
Our community programming jumps into full speed this month with our Selah Series. Selah is our Storyteller series with speakers sharing their lived experience and covers Creation Stories, Healing Stories and Resistance Stories. Our community programming is the...
What Is Organizational Learning?
What is Organizational Learning? The UPRISE Collective has an Organizational Learning program that encompasses our tailored trainings and curriculum along with support and tools like strategic planning, facilitation, and coaching. We help organizations and programs...
Partners & Funders
