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The UPRISE Collective

Last updated Jun 2026

About

Founded in 2018, The UPRISE Collective is a Black- and Indigenous-led membership organization built by and for BIPOC, Queer/Trans, and Disabled community members. Their work spans organizational equity training, community programming and storytelling event series, the Feed Our People mutual-aid project, and disability justice. They center lived experience and offer ways to plug in through membership, volunteering, and community events. The organization is explicitly QTBIPOC-centered.

Communities centered

Trans & nonbinaryLGBTQ+BIPOC

Services offered

Peer supportAdvocacyFood & mealsFinancial assistance

Location

The UPRISE Collective

221 NW 2nd Ave, Suite 203B, Portland, OR 97209

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