AfroVillage PDX

AfroVillage began in Old Town because too many Black residents were surviving without access to safe spaces for healing, food, or connection.
Over the next five years, AfroVillage will establish the AfroVillage Oasis as a permanent community hub where healing, leadership, and workforce opportunity are integrated into one culturally grounded ecosystem. Building on proven work developed through the pandemic, AfroVillage will expand consistent healing spaces, strengthen leadership pathways, and develop food- and climate-related workforce opportunities shaped by community input. By 2031, AfroVillage will operate as a sustainable, place-based model demonstrating how culturally rooted infrastructure can strengthen stability, resilience, and long-term opportunity for Black and culturally connected communities. AfroVillage

We’re closing the year the way we believe in starting the next one: TOGETHER.

Join us for Germination Generation, a Kwanzaa Day 6 (Kuumba) gathering centered on creativity, visioning, and collective care. We’ll share food, build vision boards for 2026, light candles, and be in community as we plant seeds for what’s next.

📍 PGL Farm, East Portland
🗓️ Wednesday, Dec 31 | 2–6pm
🔥 BBQ • Vision Boards • Community

Come as you are. Leave rooted. 🌿

Federal funding cuts don’t just hit budgets.
They hit programs, community, and growth.

When nonprofits lose public funding, community support becomes the bridge. Donations help keep doors open, staff paid, and services running for folks who need them most.

This isn’t new.
The Black Panthers built community safety, food programs, and care networks when systems refused to show up.

We want to continue to offer free food, wellness workshops, acupuncture, and community events. The grants and funding opportunities are very competitive. Donors are helpful to fill gaps left when only small grants come through.

Giving right now isn’t extra.
It’s essential.
It’s how communities take care of each other when systems fall short.