{"id":5655,"date":"2025-11-13T12:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/?page_id=5655"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:13:10","slug":"communityneeds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/philanthropic-programs\/communityneeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"cq-bannerblock-title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Community Needs<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Assistance League of Greater Portland\u2019s&nbsp;newest program, Community Needs, began in June 2024 with three focus areas:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Domestic Violence Survivor Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Assistance League partners with Victims Assistance Offices of the District Attorneys\u2019 offices in Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington counties, and the Beaverton Police Department. Domestic Violence Survivor Support provides contract-free cell phones, minute cards, Tri-Met and ride-share gift cards, and U-Haul gift certificates to meet the needs of domestic abuse survivors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unhoused Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Assistance League collaborates with homeless service providers to offer gift cards for street outreach and warm clothing for those accessing shelters, equipment and supplies to support shelter operations, and new home kits for people transitioning into housing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emergency Needs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Assistance League is responsive to emergency community situations. Recently, the League provided WinCo gift cards to the Beaverton Police to distribute to SNAP recipients whose benefits had been rescinded.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;5355&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Community Needs [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Assistance League of Greater Portland\u2019s&nbsp;newest program, Community Needs, began in June 2024 with three focus areas: Domestic Violence Survivor Support The Assistance League partners with Victims Assistance Offices of the District Attorneys\u2019 offices in Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington counties, and the Beaverton Police Department. Domestic Violence Survivor Support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66469,"featured_media":0,"parent":980,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5655","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5657,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5655\/revisions\/5657"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/greater-portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}