For Juneteenth, dozens of Portland restaurants will donate 19% of profits to Black Resilience Fund

The Oregon Public House at 700 N.E. Dekum St. is among the dozens of Portland restaurants and bars donating a portion of proceeds to the Black Resilience Fund this Juneteenth.

The Oregon Public House at 700 N.E. Dekum St. is among the dozens of Portland restaurants and bars donating a portion of proceeds to the Black Resilience Fund this Juneteenth.The Oregonian

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For this year’s Juneteenth weekend, dozens of Portland restaurants have agreed to donate as much as 19% of their day’s profits to the Black Resilience Fund, an emergency fund that provides immediate resources to Black Portlanders.

Founded by local activist and former Q Center director Cameron Whitten along with organizer and policy researcher Salomé Chimuku, the fund has already raised more than $670,000 through a separate GoFundMe. Black Portlanders in the metro area can apply online for funds to purchase a warm meal or groceries, pay for a phone bill and more via the fund’s website at blackresiliencefund.com.

The fund was created on June 1 and had given away more than $100,000 by Wednesday.

Juneteenth — the celebration of the day in 1865 when all enslaved black people in the U.S. learned they had been freed from bondage -- has been proclaimed a holiday and day of remembrance by the state of Oregon, the City of Portland as well as private businesses throughout the metro area.

Here are the Portland restaurants donating funds to the Black Resilience Fund this weekend.

  • Aviv
  • Baby Blue Pizza
  • Baerlic Brewing
  • Bella’s Italian Bakery
  • Bless Your Heart Burgers 33rd Avenue
  • Bollywood Theater
  • Bye and Bye
  • Cafe Eleven
  • Cherry Sprout Produce
  • Coffee Beer
  • DC Vegetarian
  • Devil’s Food Catering
  • Doe Donuts
  • Dream Cakes
  • East Glisan Pizza Lounge
  • Extracto Coffee Roasters
  • Farm Punk Salads
  • Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings
  • Freeland Spirits
  • HOTLIPS Pizza (Killingsworth, Pearl and Hawthorne locations)
  • Jet Black Coffee
  • Kate’s Ice Cream
  • Mac Wine Cellars
  • Mama Sesame
  • Mediterranean Exploration Company
  • Migration Brewing
  • Missionary Chocolates
  • New Deal Distillery
  • Next Level Burger Portland
  • Nossa Familia Coffee
  • Off The Griddle
  • P’s & Q’s Market
  • Pizza Doughnais
  • Por Qué No Taqueria
  • Radar Restaurant
  • Ranch PDX
  • Red Sauce Pizza
  • Rudy’s Pizza
  • Seven Virtues Coffee Roasters
  • Shalom Y’all
  • Shoofly Vegan Bakery
  • St. Jack
  • StormBreaker Brewing
  • Sweet Hereafter
  • Tasty n Alder
  • Tasty n Daughters
  • Tea Bar
  • The Oregon Public House
  • The Sudra
  • Tiny Moreso
  • Toro Bravo
  • Tusk
  • Victoria
  • Water Avenue Coffee
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