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Give The Gift of Safety & Access

Your unrestricted donation to The Marie Equi Center will help us continue to reduce barriers to care for the LGBTQAI2S+ community and provide essential support to some of the most vulnerable members of our community.

Imagine a place where you feel heard, safe, and accepted for who you are. A place where you are able to receive support in accessing affirming care, mapping out health goals, and supplies to ensure your survival in a world that wasn't built for you. That is what The Marie Equi Center provides: trauma-informed, gender-affirming health access with a focus on fierce advocacy, education, and positive sociocultural change.

The Marie Equi Center’s Community Health Program provides lifesaving support for the most marginalized members of our community. Our Community Health Program depends on the generosity of supporters just like you.

If you believe that housing is healthcare and everyone has a right to compassionate, trauma-informed care please make a gift today. We can’t do this without you.

How Your Support Impacts our Participants

  • “[community members] don’t see me. . . as another staff or someone superior, they see me as one of their own. . . It helps me open the door to get to know them better to be able to help them in more specific ways. They build trust in me, they share more stuff with me, and that’s one of the biggest things we need is trust. And that way I can know exactly how to help”

    – Lupe Medina, Community Health Worker

  • "Wow I have never gotten this level of support anywhere."

    – Faera

  • “I don’t feel inconvenient here. I’ve definitely been made to feel inconvenient a lot for my mental illness and my transness and queerness, but I don’t really have to feel like that as much. That’s nice“ -Mars “I just want to let you know that this has been amazing. I love the staff here—it’s the way they treat us. We just have a good time. I do collages“

    – Dorothy

  • “When you have support like this, it really makes a difference."

    – Hall

  • “There was creativity and life everywhere — something I have noticed in the other camp villages, too. It’s the combination of autonomy and community that works so well for some people. A little space of one’s own combined with responsibility and connection to others”

    – Kaia Sand, Street Roots

  • “I think there should be a million more. . . it’s cooperative, community run.”

    – Dave “Red” Dotson, Old Town Village

Other Ways to Donate ♡

Write A Check

Make the check payable to The Equi Institute and mail to:

The Equi Institute
PO Box 11129
Portland, Oregon 97211

If you have any questions, please email Katie Cox at katie@equi-institute.org

Stocks & Securities

It is easy to donate stocks and securities! If you are interested in making a stock or security donation, please contact: Leslie Warren at (503) 225-9493 or email her at leslie.warren@lpl.com.

Leslie Warren | Manao Wealth Strategies
Phone: 503.481.0097
Fax: 503.386.2737
Email: leslie@manaowealthstrategies.com
Web: manaowealthstrategies.com

We are committed to equitable and accessible health for every body!