Albina Vision Trust
Mission
The Albina Vision Trust is a community-driven nonprofit created to buy back land, rebuild Lower Albina, and re-root Black legacies and Black futures in the heart of Portland’s central city.
Historically, Albina was home to 80% of Portland’s Black population. During the 1950s and 1960s, racist urban renewal policies displaced families and forced them to leave their stable and abundant community. Albina was classified “blighted” and redlined, with properties condemned for cents on the dollar. Government officials carved up the thriving neighborhood, demolishing thousands of homes to build Interstate 5, Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and the sprawling 10.5-acre Portland Public Schools (PPS) headquarters facility.
AVT’s restorative redevelopment will return over 3,000 people to Portland’s central city. Our 94-acre project area and our progress to date makes the Albina Vision the largest restorative redevelopment effort in America.
Together we can build the most innovative and equitable district in the country.
Bottom Line for Portland
Albina Vision Trust is buying back land, rebuilding community, and rerooting Black and marginalized Portlanders in the heart of our central city. The foundation we lay today will shape the next 50 years of life and possibility for Portland’s central city.
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"I grew up in the Albina neighborhood. My childhood home was one of the many homes demolished to build Interstate 5, Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the sprawling 10.5-acre Portland Public Schools headquarters facility. Every day I think about coming back home and I want to see others have that chance as well.” --Ms. Sharon Gary-Smith, Albina Vision Trust Board Member
"We have not lost the capacity to dream big." - Senator Avel Gordly
Incentives
❤️Sue Hennessy and Marcus Wood will match the first $5,000 donated to the Albina Vision Trust through Give!Guide. Make the most of this generous match by giving early and doubling the impact of your gift! ❤️
And that’s not all! We are partnering with tremendous local businesses offering great incentives!
🍕The first 100 donors to Albina Vision Trust will get a $5 Atlas Pizza gift card, good at any Atlas Pizza location in Portland, thanks to our great partners at Atlas Pizza! 🍕
☕Every person who donates to the Albina Vision Trust in the month of November will receive a coupon for $2 off a beverage at Deadstock Coffee (good at their Portland and Beaverton locations) thanks to the good folks at Deadstock Coffee. ☕
🍨For a special Big Give Day Treat - The first 20 people to give to AVT on November 19th will receive a coupon for one free scoop at Tipsy Scoop on N. Mississippi Avenue, thanks to our great friends at Tipsy Scoop. 🍨
🌮¿Por Qué No? will offer a special match starting on Giving Tuesday (Nov 2)! Stay tuned for more information!🌮
Partner(s)
Partnership is the cornerstone of our work at Albina Vision Trust. We give big thanks to our Give!Guide business partners this year:
We also want to highlight two great non-profit organizational partners doing great work in the community - also in the Give!Guide this year: Albina Music Trust and Word is Bond. We hope you will take a minute to learn more about each and consider showing them some love as well.
Finally, huge shout out to our ongoing partners - Portland Trail Blazers and Lewis & Clark College - whose deep partnership supercharge our ability to deliver on the community’s vision for Lower Albina.
Albina Vision Trust is in the Community category .
They're a medium-sized organization with activities in Multnomah Co.