Other Ways to Give

10 Ways to Build Community and Support Sisters!

We would love to talk to you about partnering with Sisters to spread the word about the good work of Sisters and get the community involved!  Here are 10 creative ways to help.

Merit Telecom

Merit Telecom, located in the San Juan Islands in Washington, is a nonprofit corporation that provides long distance, local and cellular telephone services to residential & business customers. They donate 100% of their profits to the nonprofit or charity of your choice.  Each long distance phone call you make becomes a real-time donation—and you can chose Sisters!  Click here to learn more.

Supporter Shares his House Profit

This letter came to us in September 2005 accompanied by a check from a supporter with an unusual and generous idea:
“Last month, I closed on the sale of my home in north Portland.  Since I purchased it in 1996, its value has increased substantially—partly due to improvements I made but mostly because it happens to be located in a neighborhood in which home prices have skyrockets over the past decade.

As increased housing costs have provided me with this un-earned financial windfall, they have simultaneously made my neighborhood, and the Portland metropolitan area in general, a place in which too many hard working folks simply can’t afford to live.


Looking ahead, I believe there are many things we could to do as a community to ensure that everyone can have a decent place to call home.  One appropriate and relatively painless approach I support would be for us to establish transfer fee on the sale of real estate.  Such a fee could be used to expand our stock of permanently affordable housing and to address the housing needs of people in our community with the fewest housing options.


As a small measure, I have decided to donate 2% of the sales proceeds of the house to organizations that I believe are already doing work to further these goals.  Specifically, I am supporting organizations that:
• Provide permanently affordable housing
• Support, house and empower residents of our community who are homeless; and
• Advocate at a local and regional level for policies and additional funding to preserver and create new housing in our communities that will remain affordable forever.


Enclosed is a check for $500 to Sisters Of The Road for all you have already and will continue to do in the future to empower, nourish, employ and provide safe haven for members of our Portland community who, despite (and in some ways because of) our raging housing market, continue to lack basis shelter.


Keep up the great work!


                      Cheers,
                      Eli Spevak”