Three new programs — built on the same values that power everything THTF does. Community-designed. Dignity-first. Free. Open to all. And already yours to shape before they launch.
Each program has its own full page with everything you need to know. Here's the view from the doorway.
Every community has stories that deserve to be told — and people inside those communities who are already the best possible tellers of them. THTF Neighborhood Voices trains residents from immigrant, refugee, and underrepresented communities to become neighborhood journalists, oral historians, and cultural documentarians.
Participants receive free hands-on training in storytelling, photography, audio recording, and community interviewing. Published contributors are paid stipends. No journalism background is required — only a story worth telling and a neighborhood worth preserving.
Portland-area employers want to do more for their communities — but too often that energy gets channeled into events that feel performative to the very people they claim to serve. Workplace Acts of Service is different.
This program connects employer teams with structured, meaningful service in immigrant and refugee neighborhoods — where the projects, priorities, and terms are co-designed with those communities, not imposed on them. The result is genuine relationship, measurable impact, and a partnership that actually means something to everyone involved.
Inside every neighborhood are people who know things — how to cook, how to sew, how to repair a bike, how to file taxes, how to speak a language, how to build something with their hands. And inside every neighborhood are people who want to learn those very things.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor Skill Share connects those people. No money changes hands. No credentials are checked. Every person is both student and teacher. Skills are matched through a simple platform maintained by THTF volunteers, with sessions hosted in homes, libraries, and community centers across Portland's outer neighborhoods.
Every program THTF builds starts with the same non-negotiables.
"We don't decide what this community needs. We ask. Then we listen. Then we build together."
The three programs on this page exist because people in Portland neighborhoods said they needed them. That process doesn't stop — it's how THTF works. What comes after these three programs is entirely up to what the community tells us next.
Submit your idea. We read every one. Strong ideas with community interest become our development shortlist. You are not a participant in this work — you are a decision-maker in it.
We respond to all ideas within two weeks. Submitting doesn't commit you to anything — it starts a conversation.
Thank you for helping us decide what to build next. We read every submission and will be in touch if your idea moves forward.
— The THTF Team