Something New
Is Coming
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.
What's Coming
Five programs in development — all free, all community-led, all built on the belief that neighbors are each other's greatest resource.
Portland
Cultural Table
The Portland Cultural Table brings together immigrants, refugees, and longtime Portlanders to share meals, stories, and the food traditions that define who we are. Each gathering centers a different cultural community — their cuisine, their dining rituals, their history — in a warm, communal space where everyone is the guest and everyone is the host.
These are not food festivals. They are dinners — intimate, intentional, and built around the belief that sitting at the same table changes something. We eat together, we listen, and we leave with a little more of each other inside us.
DIY Community
Repair Kits
When a bike breaks, a door hinge fails, or a child's backpack needs repair, the cost of replacement isn't always an option. The DIY Community Repair Kits program distributes free, culturally-aware tool kits and repair guides to households in Outer East Portland — packaged with multilingual instruction sheets and a QR code linking to video walkthroughs in multiple languages.
Each kit includes a Repair Café referral card — connecting families to free repair events where skilled volunteers help complete the repair in person. We also accept donations of gently used tools to keep kits fully stocked for every neighbor who needs one.
Neighborhood
Voices
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.
Workplace Acts
of Service
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.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor
Skill Share
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.
Built on the Same Foundation
Every program THTF builds starts with the same non-negotiables.
Your Ideas Build
Our Next Program
"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.
Idea received.
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