Film.
June 2023
Portland non-profit launching second annual beautification give-a-thon | KOIN 6 Interview
May 2023
KOIN 6 'Not about politics': Safe Rest Village 'meet, greet' gathers housed, unhoused neighbors
November 2022
Cultivate Initiatives helps support interns during holidays
July 2022
Sunrise Shelter Cooling Shelter
June 2022
Sandra’s inspirational story out of houselessness
March 2022
Passion fuels ‘good chaos’ of Cultivate Initiatives
March 2022
Cultivate Initiatives gets $2.9 million from Oregon
March 2022
County-funded Cultivate Initiatives' cleanup program transforms community & employs unhoused people
March 2024
KGW Kathrine Cook covers our first Cultivate Comedy Hour. This donor-appreciation event was hosted at the HOLLA School and featured five local comics. Attendees were unhoused and housed neighbors alike, all coming together to share a laugh.
November 2023
Since 2018, Cultivate Initiatives has been in East Portland working towards communities that are safe. supportive, and full of opportunity. We offer a huge thank you to the neighbors that have grown alongside us, and our new neighbors at Active Culture Studios for being a part of our community.
Print.
Villages for Unhoused People Are Popping Up in More Cities.
What’s It Like to Live in Them?
By Liz Kubal | DWELL
March 2022
Cooling shelter offers relief from 100-degree heat in Portland
By Max Egener
July 2022
Portland Oregon’s Trash
Clean-Up Continues
by Joseph Gallivan
June 2022
Lawmakers to give $2.9 million to jobs development program
by Jenny Young | KOIN 6
March 2022
Passion fuels ‘good chaos’ of Cultivate Initiatives
by Liz Burch
March 2022
‘Nicest people I’ve ever met’: Gresham residents escape heat
by Danny Peterson | KOIN 6
August 2021
Safe Rest Villages and then what?
by Taylor Griggs | Street Roots Newspaper
November 2021
Podcast.
Podcast - EP30: Summer in the City
(ft. Sandra Fairbank & Daniel Aldana Cohen)
Darts and Letters | July 2021
In late June, the Pacific Northwest experienced extreme weather by way of a heat dome that settled over the region, driving up temperatures, and setting heat records. In Portland, the temperature reached 112F (44C) while Lytton, B.C. broke Canada’s heat record three days in a row before burning to the ground on the fourth day. More common and extreme heat like this is an effect of climate change. This week, Darts and Letters talks about what that extreme weather means for some of the most marginalized among us — those experiencing homelessness — and digs into what is being done, and not done, to tackle the climate crisis.
First (@7:12), Sandra Fairbank is a community advocate, volunteer with Cultivate Initiatives, and a person experiencing homelessness. She runs a shower truck in Portland, Oregon that serves the homeless in her community. She talks about that service, what it means to people, and a day in her life during the heatwave.