In the News
Path Home featured in Regency Magazine
Path Home was honored to be featured in Regency’s article “A Tale of Two Philanthropies” along with our great friends at Bridge Meadows, a Portland-based organization dedicated to creating and inspiring intergenerational communities.
In the news:
Regency, February 21, 2024
Open Spaces Features Path Home’s Story
Path Home’s Brandi Tuck wrote an article about our unique and innovative approach to our work for Open Spaces Northwest, an online forum for voices that speak with knowledge and understanding of matters currently affecting all of us.
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Open Spaces, January 6, 2024
Path Home Featured in Oregonian
Multnomah County helped 200-plus people get housed by paying private landlords their rent for a year. A fraction now fear homelessness
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The Oregonian, July 31, 2023
Brandi Tuck Named CNN Hero (VIDEO)
Path Home’s Brandi Tuck has been honored as as one of this years CNN Heroes. This is an incredible testament to her leadership and the remarkable work of Path Home. Watch the story!
In the news:
CNN, June 9, 2023
CNN Heroes (ARTICLE)
This could be the most beautiful homeless shelter you have ever seen, and it’s getting results.
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CNN, June 9, 2023
The Oregon Lullaby Project
Professional singer-songwriters collaborate with women experiencing houselessness to create lullabies for their families.
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KGW8, May 15, 2023
Portland shelter tackles both the housing crisis and climate change
Path Home is a shelter and transitional housing village in the Lents neighborhood. It was designed to be green and energy efficient.
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KGW8, April 20, 2023
When Tackling Homelessness, Prevention is Often the Best Medicine
By intervening early, often with small rent payments, a Portland shelter kept nearly 100 families out of homelessness last year, saving thousands of dollars in future rehousing costs.
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Reasons To Be Cheerful, April 20, 2023
Prevention Program
Path Home’s Prevention Program helps families facing unexpected emergencies and housing instability keep their homes, and never have to experience homelessness with their kids.
In the news:
OPB, February 27, 2023
Portland Business Journal, March 3, 2023
LIGHT A FIRE 2022
Path Home Executive Director, Brandi Tuck, won Portland Monthly’s Extraordinary Executive Director Award!
In the News:
Portland Monthly, December 30, 2022
KGW, January 23, 2023
PHFS Rebrands to Path Home
Our organization has changed its name to Path Home—a name that better represents our mission to empower families with children to get back into housing and stay there.
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Oregon Business, October 17, 2022
A Plan to Accelerate Help for Homelessness
Our Executive Director, Brandi Tuck, joined Multnomah County commissioner Susheela Jayapal and Portland Business Alliance Government Relations Executive Committee and Michael Liu to reveal HereTogether's 2022 Roadmap to addressing homelessness.
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Oregonian OpEd, January 17, 2022
Path Home (formerly PHFS) Wins Bezos Day 1 Family Fund $2.5m Grant
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KOIN, December 10, 2021
KGW, January 3, 2022
Think Out Loud, January 14, 2022
Trauma-Informed Design
We are thrilled that the innovative design of Family Village and our partnership with Jessica Helgerson Interior Design, Corlett Landscape Architecture, and Carlton Hart Architecture is being recognized.
In the news:
Elle Decor, October 5, 2021
Portland Monthly, December 10, 2021
2020 Winner of AFP’s Outstanding Innovative Project Award
We are so excited and honored to have been selected by Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) for the Outstanding Innovative Project Award for our Family Village campus!
2020 Lullaby Project
We partnered with Oregon Symphony to pair local singer-songwriter writers, symphony musicians, and parents living in shelter to write a lullaby for their children.
In the news:
YouTube, June 19, 2020
KGW, June 29, 2020
KOIN Web, July 6, 2020
KOIN Aired, July 6, 2020
OCF Annual Report
Oregon Community Foundation featured our Homeless Prevention Program in their Annual Report.
Ted Talk
Our Executive Director, Brandi Tuck, shows a better way to provide shelter.
Family Village Grand Opening
After two long years of a capital campaign, a real estate purchase, and a massive remodel, our Family Village Campus is finally open!
In the news:
Fox 12, December 16, 2019
The Oregonian, December 16, 2019
PHFS Blog, December 17, 2019
Multnomah County, December 18, 2019
East PDX News, January 20, 2020
City of Portland, Response to Homelessness, Winter 2019-2020
2019 Family Winter shelter
We offered Family Winter Shelter for 75 kids and their parents from December 3-April 30, 2018. We were proud to offer this much-needed service to our community.
In the news:
The Oregonian, December 1, 2018
KOIN 6, December 3, 2018
KGW, December 3, 2018
Fox 12, December 3, 2018
Patch, December 3, 2018
New Headquarters
We completed a $3.3m Families First Capital Campaign to purchase a property in Lents to provide shelter for 25 kids and their parents.
In the news:
Fox 12, May 16, 2018
Portland Tribune, June 15, 2018
Fox 12, August 17, 2018
Portland Tribune, October 19, 2018
3rd place: 100 Best Nonprofit Workplaces in Oregon
For the seventh year in a row, we were named one of Oregon’s Top 100 Nonprofits to work for! We took home third place in the medium sized nonprofit category at Oregon Business's Top 100 Nonprofits dinner.
2018 Lullaby Project
This spring we partnered with the Oregon Symphony and Carnegie Hall on an endeavor called the Lullaby Project. Local singer-songwriter writers were paired with moms living in shelter to write a lullaby for their children. These songs will be recorded for the moms to keep, and were performed live on April 26th.
In the news:
OPB's Think Out Loud, April 10, 2018
KGW, April 11, 2018
Street Roots, April 20, 2018
KOIN, April 23, 2018
The Oregonian, May 6, 2018
Live Wire Radio, May 12, 2018 (Episode #362)
Oregonian OpEd
Read our Executive Director, Brandi Tuck's, OpEd in The Oregonian. It's a response to the Reading, Writing, Evicted series.
2018 Family Winter Shelter
We operated an emergency winter family shelter for 75 moms, dads, and kids from December 11 through April 30, 2018.
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Multnomah County, December 13, 2017
Willamette Week, December 14, 2017
KOIN, December 14, 2017
Ninety-Nine Girlfriends Impact Award
We are thrilled to share that PHFS has been awarded a $100,000 Impact Award from the Ninety-nine girlfriend to expand our Diversion & Prevention program! With these dollars, we will be able to help families prevent homelessness in the first place. We are so humbled and grateful for this transformative opportunity.
In the news:
Oregon Live, December 27, 2017
Home for the Holidays
A Home for Everyone's Home for the Holidays campaign was a huge success - 42 families got back into permanent housing. Thanks to our partners Human Solutions, Community of Hope, Mayor Ted Wheeler, Chair Deborah Kafoury, and all of the landlords and property management companies for making this happen.
In the news:
Oregon Live, November 10, 2017
KATU, November 13, 2017
KGW, November 14, 2017
KOIN, November 22, 2017
Multnomah County, January 18, 2017
