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 us
Building a Stronger Community through connection, upward mobility, and resilience
The Rosewood Initiative, founded in 2009, fosters a safe, healthy, and vibrant community where East Portland neighbors can thrive together. Historic disinvestment has denied East Portlanders access to adequate transportation, safe roadways, green spaces, and economic opportunity. Rosewood was founded to address these inequities. Over the years, the neighborhood impact is evident in thousands of lives improved, community programs launched, and strong local partnerships forged.
Our Impact
We Believe
Everyone deserves a safe, amenity-rich neighborhood that empowers them to shape their future.
Our Mission
Building a safe, healthy and vibrant community where neighbors can thrive together.
Our Vision
To improve access to support systems that promote economic stability, upward mobility, health, wellness, and community resilience throughout East Portland.
Our Values
Hope – We trust in the power of unity to spark positive change within ourselves and our community.
Equity – We honor the dignity of every individual, ensuring everyone feels valued, included, and empowered to contribute.
Transformation – We create opportunities and provide support to inspire personal and collective growth.
Connection – We believe meaningful relationships are the foundation for learning, growth, and lasting change.
Commitment – We stand unwavering in our dedication to our community and the people within it—never giving up.
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 and providing a safe space for all in the Rosewood community and surrounding neighbors.
Our mission is to work alongside the community, respond to as many injustices as possible at the neighborhood level, and create conditions in Rosewood where everyone can 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 constantly improve our work as individuals and as an organization to serve the Rosewood community better. Rosewood is dedicated to equity internally and externally, and we know this work is a long process that will not have immediate outcomes because it is difficult. We have to open our hearts and minds and engage in self-reflection on our personal roles in racism and white supremacy. We are committed to having hard conversations with each other, even if that means it will be uncomfortable.
