Dear Rosewood Community and Partners,
The team here at The Rosewood Initiative is taking COVID-19 and our responsibility to the community very seriously. After much deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to close the center and cancel gatherings until further notice.
Dear Rosewood Community and Partners,
The team here at The Rosewood Initiative is taking COVID-19 and our responsibility to the community very seriously. After much deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to close the center and cancel gatherings until further notice.
Dear Rosewood Community and Partners,
The team here at The Rosewood Initiative is taking COVID-19 and our responsibility to the community very seriously. After much deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to close the center and cancel gatherings until further notice.
Dear Rosewood Community and Partners,
The team here at The Rosewood Initiative is taking COVID-19 and our responsibility to the community very seriously. After much deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to close the center and cancel gatherings until further notice.
About
MISSION
Building a safe, healthy and vibrant community where neighbors can thrive together.
THEORY OF CHANGE
Theory of Change:
As a community anchor, The Rosewood Initiative will foster community building and be a resource hub for East Portlanders most impacted by systemic exclusion. We strive to improve access to support systems that foster economic stability and upward mobility, health and wellness, and community resilience across East Portland neighborhoods.
To improve programming and internal operations, leverage external partnerships, and establish long-term financial sustainability, The Rosewood Initiative will complete biennial organizational assessments and make strategic investments informed by the needs of East Portland families.
VISION
Rosewood is a place that neighbors are proud to call home:
Neighbors want to feel accepted, welcome and safe in their community.
Neighbors want affordability, in housing and in life.
Neighbors want to see positive, healthy businesses and amenities that are easily accessible.
Neighbors want to celebrate their own cultures and learn about others.
Neighbors want a spectrum of services that will help them improve their lives.
Neighbors want a beautiful community.
VALUES
Hope – We believe that together we can make positive change, in ourselves and in the community.
Equity – We respect the dignity of every person in our community; everyone belongs and everyone has something to offer.
Transformation – We open up opportunities and offer support for people to make change for themselves and the community.
Connection – We believe that people learn, grow and change through relationships over time.
Commitment – We don’t give up on people or on our community.
EQUITY STATEMENT
The Rosewood Initiative is a place-based, people-first community organization. The organization began as an effort to address community concerns around the concentrated poverty and lack of services that have created barriers to opportunities for people living in the Rosewood neighborhood in East Multnomah County. These place-based inequities are disproportionately experienced by immigrants and refugees, Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Rosewood neighbors are dramatically impacted by systematic racism, wealth, and geographic injustices. We are an anti-racist organization dedicated to celebrating multiculturalism, providing a safe space for all in the Rosewood community and surrounding neighbors.
Our mission is to work alongside the community and respond to as many of those injustices as possible at the neighborhood level, and to create conditions in Rosewood where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We recognize that inequalities based on one's race, gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, immigration status, religion, and education have created different historical and current experiences based on one's identity(ies). We recognize that inequities are intersectional across different identities. We are committed to equity and ensuring that we are constantly improving our own work as individuals and as an organization to better serve the Rosewood community. Rosewood is dedicated to equity internally and externally and we know this work is a long process without immediate outcomes because this work is difficult. We have to open our hearts and minds, and engage in self reflection on our own roles in racism and white supremacy. We are committed to having hard conversations with each other even if that means it will be uncomfortable.