Make Your Weird Event Happen
The biggest lie people tell themselves is that you need money to do something interesting. You don't. The city is full of free spaces, free supplies, free promotion, and even free cash for people who want to make something happen in public. The only thing standing between you and your inexplicable community event is knowing where to look.
These are the resources we keep in our back pocket. Use them. Abuse them. Then tell us what you did with them.
Lloyd Lending Library
A project of the Lloyd Eco District, the Lloyd Lending Library provides free event supplies to support homegrown public events led by small businesses, farmer's markets, individual vendors, community associations, nonprofits, building managers, and community groups in Portland.
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Multnomah County Library
The Multnomah County Library offers free printing (up to 100 black and white pages per day), use of community rooms, and public bulletin boards. Your flyers, your meeting space, your announcements are all sorted here!
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PBOT Street Plazas
Not only are the public plazas free to reserve and use, when approved for a permit the folks at PBOT will even promote your event in community newsletters! Free venue and free publicity. Yes, really.
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Awesome Portland
Every two months, Awesome Portland gives away $1,000 to someone with a crazy brilliant idea for making Portland a little more awesome. You don't have to be a non-profit to apply! If your idea is weird enough, this might be exactly the fuel it needs.
Check It Out →Did we miss something? Know a resource that belongs on this list? Or, better yet, did you actually use one of these and make something happen? We want to know.