Welcome to the Events page, updated frequently with events that change hearts and minds and support the wonderful work of Sisters!

Don’t Squat with your Spurs on, and Don’t Miss the Hoedown and Auction 2007

Pardners, the Hoedown is our most important fundraiser of the year, and we need your help in making it a biggun’!  Join us Saturday, October 13 4:30- 9:30 pm at the Portland Art Museum’s Kridel Ballroom for a rollicking good time. Click here for the full run-down.

Tickets are $85 for individuals and tables of 10 are $850 with a limited number of patron tables available.  Beer and Wine is hosted, and dinner is either deeee-licious chicken or yummy vegetarian.  Music by Uncle Earl and the Casey Neill Trio will be GREAT!  And there’s a costume contest too!

To buy tickets or a table, call (503) 222-5694 ext. 19, or click here, and you will be rerouted to a secure page where you can purchase tickets online, order the type of dinner you’d like, and tell us the name of any guests you’ll be bringing.  To find out more about sponsorship, click here.

Cowhands, if you have items or services you can donate to the auction, give Lisa a holler or at (503) 222-5694 ext. 14; click here to get the item donation form.  We could also use a hand wrangling auction items or helping on the day of.  or call 503-222-5694 x17.

It does make a difference.  Last year’s Hoedown was more fun than a greased piglet race and netted $107,000 for Sisters’ good work!  Click here to take a gander at some wonderful pho-tee-graphs. We’ll be as happy as a duck on junebug to see you at this year’s Hoedown.

PC Grand Opening Block Party a Smash

The September 6th community block party to celebrate the Grand Opening of Sisters’ new Personalist Center was a huge hit.  Around 900 customers, supporters, staff, volunteers and funders of the Center mingled, listened to great music, ate barbecued burgers and hot dogs, had snow cones and cotton candy, took tours of the Center, and had a blast.

A big thanks to everyone who came, to our great volunteers, to musicians Marisa Anderson and Lana Rebel, and to special guest speakers Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Laura Stirewalt!

Dining with Dignity Raising Thousands - One More Event

A very warm thanks to everyone who ate out for dignity in August, and to the 14 generous restaurants (and a theater) that raised funds to end hunger and homelessness in our community – and there’s one more event in September: Tin Shed will have a Last Show of the Summer benefit for Sisters – donations at the door, Last Thursday, September 27th, 7:00 - 10:00 PM. 1438 NE Alberta St, Portland (503) 288-6966.

The final numbers are not in, but Dining with Dignity has so far raised at least $6,500 dollars to fund Sisters’ work.  In the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, we want to thank Backspace, Old Town Pizza and Tube.  In other great parts of the city we want to thank McMenamins Kennedy School (raised $3533 in one night!), Escape from New York Pizza, Sal’s Famous Italian Kitchen partnered with Quintessence Language and Imagination Theater, Il Piatto and its sister the Jade Lounge, SubRosa, Elephants Delicatessen, Daily Grind, Wolf from the Door, and the Wingstop Cafe.  Wolf from the Door, a group of eleven elementary-aged kids who held a home restaurant (pictured above), raised $1,500 cooking and serving food and selling shirts and art they made.

Weren’t able to participate this year?  It’s not too late to donate a generous gift certificate to Sisters’ Hoedown and Auction.  We will pair it with donated tickets to a concert, ballet, theater etc, helping us raise funds and letting over 400 major donors hear about your generosity.  Click here for a donation form; or to learn more,

Volunteer Training

Volunteering at Sisters can be wonderfully rewarding.  The second Wednesday of each month, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, there is a Volunteer Training at the Cafe.  To sign-up, contact Mary at 503-222-5694, x17 or

Get Personal with the Personalist Center

New time: Join us the second Wednesday of every month at 1:30pm in the Personalist Center (137 NW Sixth Ave.) to give your input on how to make the Personalist Center a place to share power and build community.  Come once or come every meeting.  to make sure of meeting times. Click here for more information about the Personalist Center.