Depave

Mission

Depave empowers disenfranchised communities to overcome social and environmental injustices and adapt to climate change through urban re-greening. 

Depave transforms over-paved places, creates resilient community greenspaces, promotes workforce development and education, and advocates for policy change to undo manifestations of systemic racism.

Bottom Line

The urban heat island is real in Portland, and it hits worse in neighborhoods with fewer trees and greenspaces. Depave brings people together to change that. Your donation helps us address unequal urban heating by transforming derelict asphalt into shade trees and pocket parks.

Want to build hands-on climate hope with Depave? Donate and volunteer, we'd love to meet you out at a planting or depaving community event!

Quote

“I love courageous nonprofits and I think Depave is one of them.” Nancy Bond, Portland Public Schools, retired

Incentives

🌱 All donors to Depave through Give!Guide will receive a Depave sticker with original art by Jasmine Vazquez.
 

💞 Our 75th, 150th, and 300th donor to Depave through Give!Guide will receive one of three giveaways or gift baskets including wild Alaska smoked salmon from Schoolhouse Fish, a gift card to Everett House Community Healing Center, and a 3-night stay at a remote, off-the-grid cabin in the upper Wind River valley, near Carson, Washington.

Gift Matching

👯‍♂️Want to double your donation? Give $50 or more!

💰A generous local donor who loves Depave's Green Streets Program will match 1:1 every Give!Guide donation to Depave over $50, up to $10,000. Want to help create more green plazas and cool, shady, tree-lined streets that fight the urban heat island effect? Let us turn your $50 into $100 and let's get it done! 🥳

Partner(s)

🛀 Everett House Community Healing Center is a spa and massage sanctuary dedicated to tranquility, inner peace, and overall community wellbeing.

🐟 Schoolhouse Fish Co. is a fisher-owned family business based in rural Lingît Aani (Southeast Alaska) shipping their own hand-caught, sustainable salmon & seafood, with love, to people in Portland and around the country. 

💖 Portland Indigenous Marketplace supports Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs by providing barrier-free, culturally respectful spaces that encourage cultural resilience and economic sustainability by promoting public education through cultural arts. Support PIM's Project 737!

🌟 Cultivate Initiatives is a a nonprofit organization supporting East Portland that works alongside those who have been marginalized to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and supports. Check out our work together!

🚣🏾 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership restores and protects habitat of the Lower Columbia River. Depave partners with LCEP to remove asphalt and create green schoolyards across the Portland metro area.