The recipients listed below received financial support between $2,500 and $10,000 from the Community Events Activation Funds Program, a funding opportunity that closed on May 9, 2022.
The Community Events Activation Funds Program helps Portlanders (with a focus on BIPOC organizers and multicultural events) create community events through direct financial support. This program is funded by the American Rescue Plan, which is investing in Portland’s recovery – and our future. Learn more about Vibrant and Inclusive Community Spaces and the other American Rescue Plans by visiting our homepage.
List of Vibrant Space recipients:
| Organizer | Name of Event |
|---|---|
| 3v3ryDay Grind LLC | Community Pulse Series |
| 82nd Avenue Business Association | Around the World in 82 Dishes |
| A Beat Happening / Luvjonez Music LLC | A Beat Happening 5 Year Anniversary Concert |
| Akela Jaffi | BIG BASS - Black Artists Summer Showcase Day Festival |
| Albina's Best Jazz Brunch | Albina's Best Jazz Brunch |
| APANO Communities United Fund | Heal, Unite, Gather: APANO & Jade District Community Resource Fair |
| Arleta School PTA | Arleta Welcome Back Block Party |
| Art of Living Foundation | World Culture Festival |
| AUXART | To the River |
| Baksana Ensemble LLC | Baksana Ensemble with Ozgen |
| Bellagram Singing Telegrams | Sunday Sessions At The Abbey |
| Better. | BLAQ Athlete |
| Bishop & Son's Baked Goods | The Young Makers Market |
| Blanchardboys, LLC | Afrodaddy's Jazz Festival |
| Bollywood Dreams Entertainment | Bollywood Block Parties |
| BroadBeats LLC | Broad Beats Brings Female-Identifying Art & Music to Downtown Portland |
| Brown Hope | Power Hour |
| Butch Is Not A Dirty Word LLC | Hot Queer Summer: A series |
| Center for the Study and Preservation of Palestine | CSPP SWANA Souk Grant Application |
| CityWide | Summer Event Series |
| Community Warehouse | Art Square Community Event |
| Deadstock Run Club | Deadstock Run Club |
| DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid | Summer Sidewalk Party |
| Elevate Unity, Inc. | Heritage Summer Soulfest 2022 |
| Equitable Giving Circle | Equitable Giving Circle BIPOC Back to School Event |
| Espacio Flamenco | Fall Feria |
| Exit The Maze | taKing spaCe |
| Family Basketball Tournament | Family Basketball Tournament - 4 on 4 |
| Favela Brazilian Cafe | Brazilian Festival in Portland! |
| Feed The Mass | Feed The Mass Community Events Application |
| First Church Love | Lets Gather in Our purpose for Unity |
| Fork and Spoon | Filipino Street Food Event |
| Foster Foosball | The Backyard Games |
| Friends of Noise | Vibrant Spaces |
| Friends of Sellwood Community House | Play + Gather + Connect: Summer Community Events at Sellwood Community House! |
| Friends of Zenger Farm | Event Support for Zenger Farm |
| Gallery Go Go and Event Cosmetics - Azure Attoe and Katherine Sealy | Urban Art Hike |
| GHTOBLST, LLC | JOY x NOSTALGIA |
| Give Back to Kickback LLC | Give Back to Kick Back |
| Green Lents | Activation of SE Lents neighborhood blocks around the Malden Court Community Orchard through a series of community building events. |
| Hairgods | Hairgods Barber Competition |
| Halprin Landscape Conservancy | Abakuá: Myth and History |
| Heidi Duckler Dance Northwest | Heidi Duckler Dance Northwest - Sin Maíz No Hay País |
| Heyday Clay Studios | Heyday Clay Studios |
| Historic Mississippi Business Association | Support the Mississippi Street Fair |
| Historic Parkrose | Summer Nights - Midweek Food & Fun by Historic Parkrose |
| Hoi Phu Huynh & White Lotus Foundation | Portland Mid-Autumn Festival |
| Indigenous Night of Recovery Marketplace | Indigenous NIGHT Marketplace |
| Justice for Keaton Otis Collective | Keaton Otis Memorial Installation Celebration |
| Kindle NW | Kindle NW July Launch Party |
| Lara Media Services LLC | El Grito NW 2022 |
| Lents Grown Business Association | Lents Community Information and Cultural Fair |
| Lloyd EcoDistrict | Intersection Mural Repair and Block Party |
| Mandos Mundo Entertainment, LLC | Dia de los Muertos 15th Annual Celebration |
| Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon | MESO Block Party |
| Midway Business Association | Midway Business Association application for PBOT Vibrant Spaces Community Events Activation Fund |
| Milieu Collective | Makers Market & Art Crawl |
| Mimi's Fresh Tees | PBOT Vibrant Spaces |
| Mind, Body, and Soul Sundays | In power, women empower women |
| Mindful Inquiry Therapy LLC | Beautiful Blaque Brains Ball and Conference |
| Miracle Theatre Group | Miracle Theatre Group |
| Mo Better Wellness, Connection & Facilitation | Mo Better Wellness |
| Montavilla/East Tabor Business Association | Montavilla Market Thursdays on the Plaza |
| Mount Tabor Dance | Mount Tabor Dance, Art, and Movement Community Celebrations |
| Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood Association | Arleta Triangle Square Plaza Activation |
| Multnomah Village Business Association | Multnomah Days 2022 |
| New Narrative | Mill Park Community Block Party! |
| Old Town Community Association | Juneteenth |
| One God Productions Inc | Portland Hip Hop Week |
| Oregon Chinese Coalition | Chinese Festival |
| Oregon Symphony | Oregon Symphony Waterfront Concert and Festival |
| Our Village Gardens | Our VIllage Gardens - Our Community Celebration Vibrant Spaces Community Events Activation Funds Application |
| PAM CUT | Cinema Unbound Outdoor Movies |
| PHAME | PHAME Summer Film Festival |
| Playground Gallery | Building a Creative Community |
| PopCartPDX | PopCartPDX community dance and art event. |
| Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble | Festival de Fronterizas: For All Betwixt and Between 2022 |
| Portland Grief House | Mid-Summer Grief Gathering |
| Portland Institute for Contemporary Art | Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: Time-Based Art Festival 2023 |
| Portland Opera | Opera a la Cart |
| Portland Playhouse | Pop-Up Afro-topia |
| Portland State University - Planning & Sustainability | Portland State University: Montgomery Street Plaza |
| Portland Textile X Month | Portland TextileX Month Vibrant Spaces |
| Prescott Family Community Association | Parkrose Neighborhood Elementary School Fall Carnival |
| Professional Business Development Group Foundation | Recover Together |
| Repair PDX | Repair Café - A Celebration of International Repair Day |
| Rinconcito Tropical | Rinconcito Tropical |
| Rocky Butte Farmer's Market | Rocky Butte Weekly Farmer's Market 2022 |
| Rose + Lincoln | A GREAT START - Wellness Weekend |
| ROSE Community Development | ROSE Community Development 30th Anniversary |
| Sabin CDC | Sadie's Cully Community Collaboration Celebration |
| Secret Roller Disco | Secret Roller Disco |
| Seven's Community Hub & BBQ | Seven's Community Unity Weekends |
| Sidewalk PDX | Vibrant Spaces Funding Opportunity 2022 |
| Sneaker Week LLC | Sneaker Week PDX - Prime Events |
| St. Johns Boosters | St. Johns Plaza for the St. Johns Boosters Organization |
| St. Johns Center for Opportunity | St. Johns Farmers Market: Covid Recovery, Food Access, and Entrepreneurship |
| Straight Path Inc | Fresh Chance Career Journey Event |
| The African American Community Inc. | African American Community |
| The Alberta Abbey Foundation | 100 Year Anniversary of the Alberta Abbey |
| The Artful Ladder LLC | Divine Flow: Music and Art Weekend |
| The Bhakti Yoga Movement Center | Yoga in the Park for All |
| The Center of Attention Community Development Corporation | St John's Family Wellness Program |
| The Street Trust | Walk And Roll Parade And Block Party at Milagro Theater |
| thenumberz.fm | Numberz Summer Series |
| Tia Katcharian | Shapeshift Summer Series |
| Transformative Living Organization, International | Sunday Seekers |
| Trap Kitchen PDX | Trap Kitchen PDX Feed Our People |
| True North Studios | Better Together Art Market |
| Two Rivers Bookstore & Weird Sisters Yarn | Summer Community Event Series |
| Vanport Jazz Festival | Vanport Jazz Festival |
| Vibe of Portland | St Johns Summer Art Walk |
| Vive Northwest | Vive Northwest - Vibrant Spaces |
| We Out Here | Summertime Kickback |
| WOKE PDX | Black X Asian AF (a sneaker themed community block party) |
| Woman2Woman | Beyond 30 Purpose and Potential Male youth movement |
| Womb Homb | Womb Homb Workshop Series |
| Women of Color (WOC) Zine Collective | Unmasked and Revealed |
| WomenFirst Transition & Referral Center | Community Recovery Fun Day |
| Wooden Fish Parents First | Wooden Fish Parents First Community OUTREACH |
| Woodstock Farmers Market | Woodstock Farmers Market Kids’ Day |
| World Arts Foundation Inc. | Time Sound: Albina's Jazz Reimagined |
| Y.G.B. Portland | Joyous July |
| YETI Foundation | Youth Exist To Inspire (Y.E.T.I) |
Contact
Vibrant and Inclusive Community Spaces Events
VibrantSpaces@portlandoregon.gov
9 AM - 5PM Monday-Friday
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Who manages this program?
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) operates this program in collaboration with the City of Portland’s American Rescue Plan Act team. PBOT is working with American Rescue Plan and leadership from the Mayor’s Events Action Table to be a community partner in helping business and organizations recover from the financial and cultural impacts of COVID-19 through streets that are activated, accessible, safe and inclusive.