For the past 12 years, Portland Monthly has celebrated the organizations, volunteers, and board members who shape the city’s vibrant nonprofit sector. Meet 2016’s Light a Fire honorees—the people making Portland a better place to live, love, give, and grow.
How the Freshwater Trust Protects America’s Waterways with Surgical Precision
The river-stewarding organization is one of Oregon’s most important environmental nonprofits.
Artists Repertory Transforms Its Home into an Incubator for the Future of Local Theater
While still producing shows that give you “all the feels.”
Friends of Nadaka Unites a Gresham Neighborhood to Create a Park
Complete with bird walks, play spaces, and a community garden—and soon Gresham’s first handicapped-accessible swing.
How SMART Board Member Elizabeth Large Helps Create Confident Readers
Start Making a Reader Today pairs adult volunteers with in-need students.
Cascade AIDS Project Serves More Than 400 People Each Month
In 30 years, CAP has blossomed into a 60-staffer juggernaut, with services ranging from HIV testing to housing and job placement.
This Global Branding Agency Helps Portland Street Kids Become Designers
AKQA provides materials, expertise, and guidance. The kids do the rest.
How the Portland Community ToolBank Helps Nonprofits Build a Better City
From playgrounds for children to ramps for disabled veterans, the one-employee organization helps nonprofits get projects done.
Meet the Volunteer Tattoo Remover Changing Young People’s Lives
Lesley Segal—internal medicine doctor by day—has spent 14 years at Outside In’s Project Erase tattoo removal program.
At Bridge Meadows, Derenda Schubert Leads an Innovative Portland Housing Community
The Portsmouth neighborhood community was designed to create a “big family.”
Curriculum of Cuisine Teaches Portland’s High School Kids Healthy Choices
The new nonprofit puts real chefs into local classrooms.
Born in Mexico, 28-Year-Old Cristina Delgado Devotes Herself to Washington County’s Latina Girls
“I have a similar background to many of the Chicas,” says the Adelante Mujeres staffer.
How George Thorn Guides Portland Arts Organizations to Sustainability
The behind-the-scenes master knows how to pull the strings.
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