WeShine Initiative Inc.

Mission

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.

Bottom Line for Portland

WeShine stands for Welcoming, Empowering, Safe Habitation Initiative with Neighborhood Engagement.

Our model is rooted in the value of community, which restores self-esteem and heals the trauma that results from life on the streets. Guests experience peer support and are connected with services. This supportive service model leads to success that is nearly impossible when living outside. 

Our vision is to create a network of micro villages based on this model, and provide vulnerable adults with a path to permanent housing.

Quote

 “I don't even really feel like we are in a shelter anymore. I feel like more of a community. I did not know how important that was until I saw the other side of it”.  N (WeShine Villager)

Incentives

🌞Our first $1000 raised will be matched by generous private donors.

🌞Our first 4 $500 donations will be matched by Integrus Architecture, Shiels Obletz Johnsen, and Scheller Financial Services and our generous friend Dan Shramek. 

🌞 Every donor gets a cute vinyl WeShine sticker.

🌞Any donation between $50 and $100 will get a WeShine key chain.

🌞First 10 donors 35 and under will get a Subway Gift Card. 

🌞First 10 donations of $30 or more on Big Drinks Day will get a Starbucks Gift Card. 

🌞 Donations of $50 or more get a free bag of coffee from Portland Coffee Roasters (while supplies last!)

🌞 Our first donor over $50 during Animals Category Week will receive a gift basket of dog or cat supplies from TreBone Pet Supplies.

🌞 Our first donor over $200 on Giving Tuesday/Big Blazers Day gets a $75 Gift Card to Gado Gado Indonesian Restaurant.

🌞Our first donor under 35 on Big Relaxing Day gets $150 off Laser Hair Removal at Laser Babes!

🌞The First two donors of $50 or more on Big Drinks Day will receive a $25 gift card to Blackbird Wine Shop. 

🌞 Our First $100 donation on Big Relaxing Day will get a $40 gift card to Living Room Wines. 

🌞 The first donor under 35 on Big Groceries Day will get a gift card to Ps and Qs Cafe. 

🌞 The first donor under 35 on Big Cruise Day will get a gift card to My Vice Food and Spirits.

🌞 Our first donation of $50 donation during Creative Expression week will receive two tickets to a Portland Center Stage production and two free drinks!

Partner(s)

Non Profit Partners

Animal Aid  Animal Aid shelters animals for fostering and adoption and donates pet food and supplies, including kitty litter, to WeShine villagers who own pets. 

Stone Soup  Stone Soup educates folks in culinary arts and operates a kitchen that serves/delivers food to unhoused folks. 

Oregon Arts Watch Oregon Arts Watch is Oregon's premier arts journal.

1000 Friends of Oregon For over 50 years, 1000 Friends of Oregon has worked to protect land use, the environment, communities and engagement in Oregon. 

Our Just Future Our Just Future offers affordable housing, emergency shelter and responsive community services.

Business Partners

Integrus Arcitecture  A local architecture firm who designed two of our villages.

Shiels Obletz Johnsen  Development and design consulting.

Scheller Financial Services Financial planning in Lake Oswego.

Laser Babes Laser Hair Removal in PDX! 

Ps and Q's Market A unique cafe + groceries in the quaint Woodlawn Neighborhood.

My Vice Food and Spirits  Food and Spirits in on SE Cesar Chavez Blvd.

Gado Gado  Delicious Indonesian Cuisine.

BiMart Portland's favorite membership discount grocery store!

Living Room Wines A North Portland Wine Shop near our St. Andrew's Village.

Blackbird Wine Shop Another great wine shop supporting WeShine in the Give!Guide.

Tre Bone Pet Supplies An all natural pet supply boutique shop in St. John's neighborhood

Portland Coffee Roasters Making the world a better place through great people and fantastic coffee. 

Portland Center Stage is Portland's largest theater company producing new works, classics, and musicals as well as educational workshops.