Albina Vision Trust
Mission
Albina Vision Trust (AVT) is a community-driven nonprofit founded in 2017 to restore land, housing, opportunity and generational wealth in Portland, Oregon’s historically Black Lower Albina neighborhood. AVT intentionally connects place, wealth, joy, and culture, transforming what we build, how we build, and who we build it for.
Bottom Line
The Lower Albina of the future is a community of Black abundance, built around world class housing, million-dollar views of the river, small business prosperity, and joyful community spaces for art, culture and education. Our restorative redevelopment work benefits historically displaced residents and working-class people by reinvesting wealth created through the development process back into the community.
Your support helps create a future Black Portland where homes, cultural spaces, businesses, and gathering places grow from the community’s vision. A future where children inherit both the stories of Albina and a future within it.
Quote
“Portland’s Black community in Albina was never defined by the trauma of what had been done to us, it was defined by our resilience, by our joy, and by the unwavering love that we have for one another.”
-Michael Alexander, Albina Vision Trust Board Chair
Incentives
Our amazing community partners have generously offered special incentives for supporters of AVT whose gifts help us buy back land and reroot people and families in Lower Albina. Gifts made on the following give days could win you a special invitation into the business and arts of Black Portland today:
The first 100 donors to Albina Vision Trust will receive a coupon for a free slice of pizza at any Atlas Pizza in Portland!
Nov 11: The first person to give $250 to Albina Vision Trust on November 11th will enjoy two tickets to any Alberta Abbey produced or co-produced event of their choice.
“Thank you for supporting arts equity in our community!" – Beck G., Alberta Abbey
Nov 18: Since y’all went so hard last year, we’re bringing back the Albina Music Trust curated tote bag! The first person to give $250 to the Albina Vision Trust on November 18th will receive a special tote bag with contents celebrating over 50 years of Portland Black music history. That’s vinyl, that’s CDs and trading cards, you name it. Shoutout our amazing friends down the street at Albina Music Trust!
Nov 24: The first two people to donate $250 to Albina Vision Trust on November 24th will receive two free tickets to a performance of Portland Playhouse's 2027 production of Simply Simone (running April 28-June 7, 2027). If your chosen date is sold out, Portland Playhouse will work to find an alternative date of your choosing.
Dec 01: The first person to give $250 to Albina Vision Trust on December 1st will receive four free tickets to any spring production by World Stage Theatre for the whole family to come out and enjoy. Big shout out to our generous partners at World Stage Theatre!
Gift Matching
Donate to AVT early and your donation will be matched!
An amazing group of AVT champions have come together to match, dollar for dollar, the first $45,300 donated to AVT through the Give!Guide. Huge thanks to Agency Landscape + Planning, Mike and Nancy Alexander, Mz. Sharon Gary-Smith, GBD Architects, Sue Hennessy & Marcus Wood, Dr. Robin Holmes‑Sullivan, Keith & Pam Leavitt, PLACE, project^, Radler White Parks & Alexander LLP, and Zari Santner for doubling the impact of your gift this year!
Partner(s)
Partnership is the cornerstone of our work at Albina Vision Trust. That’s why we want to spotlight the community-first arts and culture partners whose incentives welcome AVT's supporters as patrons of Black stage, sound, and heritage for the 2026-2027 season:
We also want to thank Atlas Pizza for partnering with us again this year. Congratulations on the opening of your NE Glisan location!
Albina Vision Trust is in the Community category .
They're a large-sized organization with activities in Multnomah Co.