The kids at the Merc reported this week that Sisters of the Road, one of the old-timers in the vast Portland homeless nonprofit industry, is having trouble raising the money it would take to purchase a nicer space. I’m not surprised. That organization has turned into a font of far-left rhetoric of late. They’re no longer focused just on feeding hungry people. Now they’re a “social justice organization” that fights colonialism. I’ve written about it several times.
Those extreme politics are a turnoff for a lot of people with money. And those folks have a lot of other options when it comes to giving alms to the poor.