Sisters’ Holiday Matching Grant Challenge will help expand your giving.  November 1 through December 31, all donations to Sisters are matched 50 cents per dollar through the help of a generous group of individuals and businesses.

But wait - new donors will have a special extra match! The Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust and

will additionally match all new donors to Sisters one-to-one.  A $100 donation to Sisters by a returning donor will become $150.  The same donation from a new donor will become $250!

There is one catch: to receive the new donor match, Sisters must receive at least $30,000 in gifts from new donors by midnight on Monday, December 31.

Join us in the challenge, and tell your friends!  Gifts in any amount are welcome, and a donation made in the name of a friend or relative is a wonderful gift idea. You may donate online by clicking here; call (503) 222-569; mail a check attention “Matching Grant” to 133 NW Sixth Ave., Portland OR 97209; or bring donations to Sisters’ office at 618 NW Davis Street.  Remember, the match is over on December 31!

Sisters’ work is the manifestation of the hope that things can be different.  Our vision is one of a community based in authentic relationships and nonviolence.  We rely on our community to make sure we’re always working on the real need, in a highly effective and just manner – listening, responding and always learning and growing.

Currently Sisters is in the last year of our 2003-2008 five-year plan.  Next spring, our Board, Staff and Civic Action Group members (our Organizers who have experience with homelessness) will be creating our next five-year plan together, and we would really love your input.  What is your vision for Sisters?  Whether you are a customer, a donor, a volunteer, or a neighbor - we want to hear from you!

Please take a few moments to participate. Click Here to take the survey or call (503) 222-5694 ext. 19 to have a copy mailed to you.  We are grateful for your input and support.  Please join us for lunch in the Cafe sometime soon!

On Saturday, December 1st from 6pm to 9pm, come support Sisters Of The Road at a community dinner at Helser’s On Alberta! Filled with engaging conversation and incredible food, the meal will include: sun-dried tomato pesto wraps and tamari chicken skewers; piping hot winter vegetable and beluga lentil soup; spinach gnocchi in wild mushroom and pecorino cream sauce, or a free-range chicken with dried fruit and almond glaze; and a succulent dessert of pumpkin-spiced cheesecake with pine nuts and apple butter, and a hot cup of Stumptown coffee. Helser’s is located at 1538 NE Alberta St.

Admission is $75 per person; may be partially tax deductible.  Call Sisters at (503) 222-5694 ext. 12 to make a payment over the phone; mail a check with “Helser’s Dinner” in the note line to 133 NW Sixth Ave., Portland OR 97209; or pay securely online.  Your admission puts your name and the name of any guests on a list at the door; you will receive a confirmation thank-you letter.  Thanks for your support!

Join us on Saturday, February 2nd at the historic Aladdin Theater. To celebrate Winterfolk’s twentieth birthday, the line-up is truly amazing and bigger than ever this year!  Including: Peter Yarrow (pictured at left),Tom May, Chris Kennedy, Jim Page with Dick Weissman, Misty River, David Rea, Sky in the Road, and Rite of Spring.  Thank-you to these big-hearted musicians for donating their time and talent to Sisters!

Tickets will go on sale Dec. 15th in time for holiday gifts; they will cost $33 advance and $35 on the day of the show, and will be available at: the Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.(503) 233-1994; Music Millennium East 3158 E Burnside (503) 231-8926; Ticketmaster outlets (503) 224-4400/ 866-448-7849; and Artichoke Music 3130 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 232-8845.  Doors are at 5:30, show is at 6pm.

Get raffle tickets at our office at 618 NW Davis, or at Artichoke Music at 3130 S.E. Hawthorne Boulevard; thank-you so much Artichoke!  The guitar is a beauty. Todd Mylet of Portland Fret Works has hand-crafted a new steel string acoustic Mylet Concert Model guitar.

Retail value is $2200. The guitar is made of Sitka Spruce and Indian Rosewood with Ebony appointments.  Its ebony fingerboard is inlaid with an oroboris (snake eating its tail). Comes with a hard-shell case. Todd builds only one or two guitars a year, and we are extremely lucky to have his support this year – thank you Todd!  -Bonus!-  In addition to the guitar, raffle participants can win 1 day (10 hours) of recording time at Billy Oskay’s Big Red Studio, valued at $750; thank-you Billy!

Sisters’ Executive Director Monica Beemer was recently interviewed in the Portland Business Journal about how Sisters relies on the community.  Click here to read the article!

Each e-newsletter we’ll bring you a new passage from this amazing book.

Today’s Quote is from Chapter 12, “People do not like to be forgotten”:  Relating to Society and the Homeless Community, p. 188:

Click here to learn more about Voices from the Street.

Click on the picture above to see our “Take Action” feature, a project of our Civic Action Group, a community organizing group of men and women with experience with homelessness.