What We Do

Our Priorities

Prosper Portland focuses on building an equitable economy, based on four cornerstones: growing family-wage jobs, advancing opportunities for prosperity, collaborating with partners for an equitable city, and creating vibrant neighborhoods and communities. To support that work, we seek to maintain an equitable, innovative, financially sustainable agency. Prosper Portland invests financial and human capital to serve the city and its residents.

Creating vibrant neighborhoods & communities

We’re helping Portland build and increase access to healthy, complete neighborhoods — those with essential goods and services, connected to jobs, with transportation options and access to open spaces — throughout the city. Read More

Growing family-wage jobs

We provide Portland companies with access to new markets, technical assistance, and loans so they can grow and hire. We connect Portlanders to job training and job opportunities. We support companies in high-growth sectors that create family-wage jobs.
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Advancing opportunities for prosperity

We support property ownership and real estate projects that build wealth in historically underserved neighborhoods and communities of color. We focus on growing small and promising businesses, including minority and women-owned businesses and those in low-income communities.
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Collaborating with partners for an equitable city

Collaboration with community organizations and the private sector is central to our job creation, place-making and economic opportunity work. We share the gains from economic growth and development to ensure all communities benefit, including communities of color and those historically underserved.
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Maintaining an equitable, innovative, financially sustainable agency

Model the values of our Strategic Plan and maintain Prosper Portland’s ability to be an agent of positive change in the city of Portland by operating an equitable, innovative, and financially sustainable agency.
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Projects & Programs

The vision we seek for Portland is bigger than what Prosper Portland can achieve alone. Throughout the year we work with public, private and community partners to deliver on our strategic objectives, working on a wide array of initiatives and projects and programs that are designed to benefit all Portlanders.

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