For 13 years, Portland Monthly’s Light a Fire awards have celebrated the nonprofits, charities, organizations, volunteers, and board members helping to make our city—and the world—a better place. This year, we need do-gooders more than ever—and countless Portlanders are heeding the call to action. Meet the 2017 award winners, nominated by our readers.
How a Portland-Wide Collaboration Helped Shelter Homeless Women
Pods from PSU’s Center for Public Interest Design might be tiny, but the idea’s big.
This Tiny Nonprofit Brings Environmental Ed to Kids across Portland
Students get dirty with Ecology in Classrooms & Outdoors.
How Antoinette Edwards Takes Care of Portland’s At-Risk Youth
It's been over four decades, and she's not giving up.
Ed Blackburn Looks Back On 25 Years at Central City Concern
The retiring executive director has devoted his career to working with the homeless.
With Airport Cinema, Hollywood Theatre Gives Oregon Filmmakers a Global Audience
Up next? The nonprofit is buying Movie Madness.
Ecotrust Puts Its Faith—and Funds—in Healthy Forests
The green nonprofit makes conservation profitable.
How One Portlander Helps People Plan for End-of-Life Care
Peggy Maguire wants you to have the hard conversations.
How an Oregon Clinic Provides Vital Health Care for Seasonal and Migrant Workers
After a child’s avoidable death, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center came together in her name.
The Oregon Jewish Museum’s April Slabosheski Teaches Living History
The 28-year-old has risen quickly at the nonprofit, which moved to a much larger space in the Pearl this year.
How One Nonprofit Tackles the Gender Gap in Portland Tech
With twice as many men as women working in local tech, PDXWIT aims to right the balance (cocktails in hand).
Portlander Alan Koch and Maggie the Dog Bring Furball Therapy to All
For Our House regulars, one’s ready to talk, one’s ready to snuggle.
How a Team of Strangers Took On Trump’s Travel Ban to Help a Sick Baby
The four-month-old made it from Iran to OHSU for heart surgery.
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