L'Arche Portland's Annual Christmas Tree Sale Pick out your perfect tree and support L'Arche Portland this holiday season! We are excited to kick off our beloved annual Christmas Tree Sale on Tuesday, November 24th! For three decades, our Christmas tree sale has brought the community together to create memories, spread holiday cheer, and read more
Revitalizing Our Homes This year brought transformative updates to our homes, driven by the generosity of our donors and the unwavering support of our community. This summer, Neahkahnie House underwent a major kitchen renovation. After three decades—over 11,000 family dinners, daily meals, and countless celebrations—the kitchen was overdue for a refresh. Thanks to the read more
We're excited to share a new way you can support L’Arche Portland — without changing how you spend. It's called RoundUp.org. Every purchase you make is rounded up to the nearest dollar, and the spare change is donated to support our work. Whether you’re buying coffee, groceries, or gas, your spare change can read more
L'Arche Portland's 2026 Benefit Celebration L’Arche Portland celebrated our annual Benefit Celebration on October 10, bringing together our community for an inspiring evening dedicated to supporting our mission. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our attendees, we raised over $100,000 to help sustain our work of sharing life and building community together. We are read more
Music that makes history This month, we've been talking with local Portland legend and self-advocate DJ Lamar. Alongside logistics for DJ'ing our Spring Dance on March 27th, we also talked about Black History Month and what it means to him. :) Naturally, DJ Lamar shared that Black History Month gets him thinking about read more
Honoring Alex: “I love this day!” On March 8th, founding Gabriel House member Alex Ripplinger transitioned from this life at the age of 32, surrounded by family and friends at his mother’s home, where he lived the last 3 ½ months of his life, following a diagnosis of an untreatable brain tumor. Alex was a read more
Showing Up for One Another This holiday season, I am filled with gratitude for the incredible ways our community at L’Arche Portland comes together in times of need. At L’Arche, we are more than core members, friends, neighbors, or assistants – we are a circle of people committed to showing up for one another with read more
The L’Arche Portland community will deeply miss Robyn, but her memory is alive in so many ways and we feel her legacy each day.
Our new Community Mandate! In June, the community gathered for our annual Summer Picnic and voted with a loud hoorah to approve the final draft of our L’Arche Portland Community Mandate for 2023 -2028! We hope you’re as excited about these goals as we are: As we emerge from the hardships and trauma that Covid read more
Announcing our New Community Leader Greetings L'Arche Portland Family and Friends, It gives me great pleasure to announce that L'Arche Portland has discerned our new Community Leader/Executive Director, Julia Brown. Julia is a highly qualified and inspiring individual, and we are thrilled to welcome her into this role. Julia shares the following message: I am read more
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