WELCOMING, EMPOWERING, SAFE HABITATION INITIATIVE WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT

WeShine designs, builds, and operates neighborhood-based micro villages that provide safe, transitional shelter with wrap-around services for Portland’s underserved, unsheltered adults as they prepare to become successful tenants in permanent, affordable housing.

Read our most recent newsletter here.

WeShine is in the 2025 @willametteweek @giveguide  We love this short video of one of our villagers made by the amazingly talented @nicolecmichaelis her partner Russ @microwavedonuts You can support our mission at WeShine starting November 1st-December 31st and your donation(s) can qualify you to win big package prizes! 

Nicole and Russ are volunteers for WeShine and we could not be WeShine without the many hours of support from volunteers AND donors! 

Stay tuned over the next two months to learn more! 

#willametteweekgiveguide #giveguide2025 #unhousedneighbors #findingshelter #portlandoregon #ittakesavillage #community #findingcommunity #safety #weshinepdx #solvinghomelessness #nonprofit #volunteering #microvillage #belonging

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Just 5 more days! November 1st starting at midnight is Big Coffee Day with a prize for an amazing coffee subscription from @nossafamiliacoffee November 5 is Big Flight Day with an incredible prize package featuring an aerial tour of PDX with @enviadventures dinner at @canard_restaurant and more!! November also has a Big Garden Day featuring @portlandnursery and a Big Beach Day with an Oregon Coast getaway! There is more! The best way to support local nonprofits! Stay tuned! 

#willametteweekgiveguide #giveguide2025 #willametteweek #prizes #endofyeargiving #localnonprofit #portlandoregon #portlandia #coffee #envitours #aerialtour #pdx #weshinepdx #unhousedneighbors

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Just SIX more days til the start of the funnest way to support WeShine’s amazing mission in your end of year giving! WeShine builds and operates micro villages to shelter some of the most vulnerable in Portland’s unhoused community! Now with 3 villages, our success rate is growing in shepherding folks from homelessness to permanent housing. Our approach is built into our acronym: Welcoming Empowering Safe Habitat Initiative with Neighborhood Engagement! 

Donate as little as $10 in one or many increments to WeShine or any of the fabulous non profits listed starting November 1st for chances to win awesome prizes! 

#willametteweekgiveguide2025 #giveguide #nonprofitsinportland #doinggood #supportlocal #portlandnonprofit #endofyeargiving #donatingiswonderful #weshinepdx #unhousedneighbors #portlandishome #portlandia

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We are so excited to announce our participation in the 2025 @willametteweek @giveguide Saint Dame is happy to take over for last year’s Saint Billie Eilish. There are so many great prizes this year from, obviously Blazers Tickets, to Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Big Give Day offerings this year also include Portland Nursery, Coffee, Oregon Wine Country and more. 

#willametteweek #giveguide #willametteweekgiveguide #willametteweekgiveguide2025 #annualgiving #nonprofitorganization #nonprofitgiving #saintdame #damienlillard #portlandoregon #unhousedneighbors #givingisfun #donatingiswonderful

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Today WeShine recognizes that our villages and our central office are located on land that traditionally belonged to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, specifically the Willamette Valley and Multnomah County. There are many tribes who are deeply tied to our beautiful region. We can both love this place and honor its beauty and understand the deep harms that were historically caused here. 

#indigenouspeoplesday #multnomah #kathlemet #kalapuya #chinook #landback #stolenland #reparations #nativepeoples #firstpeoples

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Our October Newsletter is out! Read about what WeShine staff and villagers are up to and our thoughts on the recent reduction in eviction prevention services! You will also find out more on WeShine’s success rates on moving our villagers into housing! 

The link in bio will take you to our newsletter page and you can also sign up to read the next one! 

#weshinepdx #portlandnonprofit #unhousedneighbors #nonprofitorganization #solvinghomelessness #solvinghomelessnessinpdx #pdx #ittakesavillage❤️ #evictionprevention #housing #giveguide #community #microvillage #alternativeshelters

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Portland we are rallying behind each other and loving our city! And at WeShine we can think of no other fun way to support the Portland and the Oregon we love by …….participating in 2025’s @willametteweek @giveguide !!!!! Just a month away! 

Get excited about coffee, Blazers, Powells, wine country, the Oregon coast, tattoos, Portland Spirit, downtown, e-bikes, free groceries and MORE! It’s just one month away! Also get ready to see more of WeShine’s recently canonized St. Dame! (Taking over from last year’s St. Billie!)

#williametteweek #willametteweekgiveguide #portland #oregon #localnonprofits #socialjustice #endofyeargiving #portlandtrailblazers #damienlillard #weheartpdx #keepportlandweird #weshinepdx #unhousedneighbors #prizes #giveguide #notwarravaged

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