Proud Ground

Mission

Our mission is to create permanently affordable homeownership opportunities using the community land trust model to ensure multi-generational stability. 

Bottom Line for Portland

Your gift to Proud Ground helps open the doors to homeownership for low- to moderate-income families this holiday season, when more than 30 new, permanently affordable, energy-efficient Proud Ground homes are available in the Portland metro area.

Please give now to help families and our neighborhoods become safer and stronger!

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My mom bought her first home, a Proud Ground home, when I was 15. Before that, we moved constantly to chase work. It was hard as kids to make friends and keep up with our schooling. But the home brought stability: I could finally walk to school with friends, build relationships, and feel part of a neighborhood. My first job was as a cashier at the corner store!

Mom later opened a childcare center in that home, caring for children with high emotional needs. After retiring and moving to Arizona, she passed the home to me, where I lived with my husband and kids until I entered a PhD program out of state in spring 2025. Now my brother and his family live here.

This home—made possible through Proud Ground—has supported three generations. It’s not just a house; it’s the foundation for our family’s future. 

Generational wealth doesn’t always look like trust funds—it looks like stability, community, and the chance to pass something on. Proud Ground made that dream real for us. — SHELBY

(Photo: Shelby at 15, center, with her mother and sister.)

Partner(s)

We are grateful to First Tech Federal Credit Union for serving as our corporate partner for the 2025 Give!Guide and for providing a $7,500 matched giving challenge.

Also, we are thankful to our nonprofit partners: Portland Housing Center for helping to make homeownership a reality for Portland-area residents through services including mortgage lending, and Project LEDO, providing access to science and technology programs for children from BIPOC and low-income communities.