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Become a Business Member of The Street Trust

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The Street Trust has a new business membership structure for organizations who support investments in safe and accessible streets. We have revised and remodeled our business membership to be accessible, equitable, and beneficial for organizations from all the different sectors. 

 

The Street Trust’s work is done in partnership with a wide range of organizations from non-profit, labor, business, health, education, and other sectors. The support from our business members makes our advocacy more powerful, by bridging communities across differences, issue-areas, and geographic focus.

 

You can choose to be a Friend of The Street Trust, with getting access to our network and your information on our website, to choosing to be a Champion where you can partake in training and education from experts in the field of transportation and sponsorship opportunities. Partner with us by being either a Friend, Builder, Sustainer or Champion. For more information please email [email protected]

 

Our welcome to new business partners Paulson Coletti Trial Attorneys PC and Florin Roebig for joining The Street Trust Family. 

 

Become a Business Member today!

Apply now for The Street Trust Board – deadline, August 19th

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The Street Trust has embarked on an ambitious mission to advocate for multimodal transportation options that prioritize safety, accessibility, equity, and climate justice in the Portland Metro Region. Our new Strategic Plan, Executive Director, and Board will usher us into the post-pandemic age with integrity and action. 

 

We are looking for six or more new Board Members to guide this important work. The ideal members believe in our core values and our priorities of Advocacy, Community, Impact, and Partnerships.

 

> Click here to view the Strategic Plan summary [PDF]

 

Our nominees will be chosen by the current board and voted on by our members. Board members serve a two-year term and may renew. The commitment is 2-4 hours per month.

 

> Please complete this brief questionnaire to apply (10 min)

 

Application Deadline: Aug 19, 2021

Board Members Chosen: September 2021

Onboarding and Training: October 2021

The New Street Trust

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From the desk of Sarah Iannarone:

To the #Community,

When I joined The Street Trust this January, our member-elected board gave me a very specific task: lead a strategic planning process to clarify how we serve the community and how we can have the greatest influence transforming transportation across the Greater Portland Region. Today, I’m proud to show you what #TST has accomplished these last few months.

First up: the plan. Together, we accomplished more than a strategic plan – ours is a measurable action plan on a tight timeline to achieve four top priorities: intensifying our advocacy, building partnerships, growing our membership, and increasing our impact. It is full of concrete steps that #TST is committed to taking this year and next (many we’ve already started) that will set us up for success. The plan says that by the end of 2022, The Street Trust will train candidates, build new and more inclusive coalitions, involve more -and more diverse- members in our work, and serve as a resource for the kind of data and information that drives transformation. All while maintaining the programs and partnerships you already know us for. But that’s not all it says – take a look for yourself!

With a renewed vision, mission and values, we’re taking on advocacy for the streets of our future. To make our plan happen, we needed to create some new positions, and I’m so thrilled we got such an incredible pool of applicants from across the country and across Greater Portland. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming André, Anouksha, Henry, and Zeyaad to the team.

These four join an incredible staff already in place – our Education Director Lindsay, Events & Engagement Assistant Madi, and Clackamas County Safe Routes to School Coordinator Nicole are a force for the streets, plus they’re three incredible women I’d trust to lead me on a walk, bike, or transit ride anywhere in our region.

If you’re reading this, you’re seeing it on our brand new website. We’ve restructured to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for, and aligned the branding with the new Strategic Action Plan. You can learn a bit about the new and existing staff on this site as well. Look around, explore, and let us know if anything isn’t working by sending us an email to [email protected]

Along with the new website, we have new database, marketing, and payment systems, among others. This means we will be reaching out to many of you to confirm you want to stay on our email list, or to move your monthly donation to a platform that saves time and money and works better for our members and our future.

Finally, I want to make an announcement I’ve been keeping under my bike helmet for a little while: The Street Trust Board has invited me to stay on with the organization as the Executive Director and lead our organization in executing this plan. No more “Interim” uncertainty – I plan on leading with grit and determination, and using the platform this position provides to advance the vision laid out in the plan. I’ll steer the ship based on what our team hears from the members, partners, funders, decision-makers, and street users who make up our community.

It’s an exciting time to be a part of #TST, and we can’t do it without your support. Right now would be an excellent opportunity to show your support for our new direction: please ensure your membership is up to date and renew your commitment to the streets of the future with a generous sustaining gift.

Thank you for believing in the future with us!

 

See you in the streets,

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Sarah Iannarone

Executive Director, The Street Trust

 

Move More Challenge is On!

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The Move More Challenge is on now and lasts all summer long. Create a team or participate as an individual, logging any and all non-car trips to earn prizes! This year’s event isn’t limited to people commuting by bike or to workplaces. Track lunchtime walks, log trips on transit and by scooter, form a team with your book club or neighbors, and even count your Pedalpalooza and other social rides. This year, every trip counts!

LEARN MORE!

We’re Hiring!

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We’re building a new team as we prepare to publicly unveil our new Strategic Action Plan – a roadmap to how we intend to win the future of transportation. Want to break the political gridlock to address unsafe and incomplete public streets that threaten lives and livelihoods? Want to win policy and investments that save lives, reduce barriers, and expand opportunities to the people and neighborhoods our current system neglects?

JOIN US!

Welcome, Sarah!

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We are thrilled to announce the hiring of Sarah Iannarone to lead our organization, effective immediately. 

An urban climate policy expert most notable for her candidacy for Portland mayor in 2020, Iannarone’s visionary leadership will help The Street Trust tackle unprecedented challenges facing transportation in the Portland region. Traffic fatalities are at a 24-year record high; the ongoing pandemic has gutted transit ridership and funding; and the current recession has also exacerbated disparities for BIPOC and low-income communities around jobs, housing, and transportation.

In hiring Sarah, all of us at the Street Trust are doubling down on our commitments not just to climate justice but our continued work to create safer streets where mobility, jobs and housing are accessible to all .

Portland’s new transportation commissioner, Jo Ann Hardesty, welcomed the announcement saying, “I believe in the power of advocacy to create a more just future. Sarah is the perfect person to lead The Street Trust and help bring Portlanders together for safer streets.” We couldn’t agree more. 
 
There is much to be done in 2021 and beyond and we can’t wait to get to work with Sarah at the helm. 

 Welcome to The Street Trust, Sarah!

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In Grief, Solidarity and Commitment with #BlackLivesMatter

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Our hearts break for George Floyd, his family, friends, and the Black community. We stand with Breonna Taylor and her community, and Ahmaud Arbery and his. Existing safely in public spaces as a Black person is a transportation issue and, more importantly, a human right.

Our heart goes out to the Black community who have, again, been denied the chance to fully heal from the wounds of anti-Black racism and the violence it elicits. We admire your resilience and will never stop fighting with you.

We are grieving, and we want to move together from grief to action. Please make a donation to these Black-led organizations on the ground in Minnesota and locally, and take action:

The Street Trust opposes the actions of City officials to limit peaceful protests against the killings of George Floyd and other Black bodies at the hands of the police. Streets are for people. If protestors want to use their public space to express their anger and demand change, then it is wrong for the police to demand they leave that space.