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2020 Community Challenge Walking Grants: Oregon Edition

Oregon Walks is thrilled to announce the 2020 Community Challenge Walking Grants: Oregon Edition This year, we have awarded five grantees with small grants to seed walking projects. The awardees are as follows: Beyond Black CDC is an African American/ Black Community Development Corporation that aims to strengthen the African American/Black community in Rockwood by …

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2019 Highlights

Happy 2020 Friends! As we walk into this new year, I feel incredibly grateful for the work of walkstars like you who are helping Oregon Walks fight to promote walking as a climate justice, health justice, and transportation justice issue. Soon, we’ll be sending out our 2019 annual report, but in the meantime, I …

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2019 Weston Awards Recap

Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate walking and the walkstars among us at the 2019 Weston Awards! The 2019 Weston Awards was an incredible celebration of walking. Old friends and new friends came together on November 8th because we believe walking is transportation justice, climate justice, and health justice. The 2019 Weston Awardees delivered …

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2019 Weston Winner: PedPDX Walking While Black Team

2019 Weston Winner: PedPDX Walking While Black Team PedPDX is Portland’s new Citywide Pedestrian Plan, adopted by City Council in June 2019. PedPDX prioritizes sidewalk and crossing improvements along with other initiatives to make walking safer and more comfortable across the city. In the early work developing the work plan for PedPDX, project staff struggled …

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2019 Weston Winner: Samuel Thompson

2019 Weston Winner: Samuel Thompson Samuel Thompson is a longtime community leader who created a walking event in the heart of Northeast Portland focused specifically on Black and African American health called “Next Level Health Walk”. Using Northeast Sunday Parkways’ walking-only segment provided an opportunity to connect people to culturally specific healthcare providers, vendors, community …

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2019 Weston Winner: Sam Balto

2019 Weston Winner: Sam Balto Sam Balto is a Physical Education teacher and Safe Routes to School Champion at Cesar Chavez K-8 school in North Portland, Oregon. Growing up, Sam remembers walking to school with friends and taking the metro in Washington, DC. These experiences helped Sam build a sense of independence and to view …

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STEPtember Is Finally Here!

Walks happening this week, September 1-7 Walk leaders came up with some creative walks this week!

Clear the Corners

If you have walked anywhere in Portland you know how difficult and dangerous it can be to cross when cars are parked close to the intersection.

Weston Awards 2019: Calling All Walkstars!

Mark your calendars for the 2019 Weston Awards on Friday, November 8th! Join us as we celebrate walking in Oregon. Put on your dancing shoes (or most comfortable walking shoes:) and sashay on over to Portland’s downtown Hilton. Together, we will honor the walkstars in our communities and the crucial work Oregon Walks does to …

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