Neighborhood Partnerships Inc

Policy, advocacy, and organizing: through the organization's policy and advocacy efforts, it builds ongoing relationships with decision leaders and inspires them with a passion for building financial resilience and creation of pathways out of poverty. The organizatons supports people who have been directly impacted by economic and housing instability to both inform policy proposals and speak directly to decision makers. Neighborhood partnerships acts as a convener for the statewide housing alliance, which acts to educate policy makers and advocate for affordable housing needs across oregon. In 2019, the organization began working with residents of affordable housing to organize and build power with them. Continued on schedule oresidents have worked together to form the network, residents organizing for change, or roc, which is led by people with lived experience with housing instability.

Economic justice and financial inclusion: np provides resources, information, and technical support to partners who are creating new pathways to provide all oregonians access to resources and opportunity that will increase their household financial instability. In 2020, np helped create and now co-convenes the oregon economic justice roundtable (oejr), which was formed to co-create a shared table of advocates, non-profits, and funders to advance collective, sustained action for racial and economic justice.

Np's work is increasingly focused on centering the voices of thosemost impacted by racism, systemic oppression and harmful policy responses. We arecommitted to building a more racially equitable oregon, in which both resources andopportunity are shared. Np's roles as conveners and organizers allow us to build adeep base of relationships that informs and strengthens our advocacy.