Partner Spotlight: Nelson\Nygaard

Posted on May 10, 2022May 11, 2022 by Anouksha Gardner

We’d like to thank our long time partners Nelson\Nygaard for supporting The Street Trust and contributing to an amazing closing event at Lucky Lab NW for the 2022 Oregon Active Transportation Summit.

During the Summit’s closing party The Street Trust’s new staff were finally able to connect in person with Nelson/Nygaard’s team and talk about all the wonderful things our organizations are working on. This includes Nelson/Nygaard’s newTransportation Demand Management guide, which helps local leaders work with their communities to implement TDM measures that advance health and sustainability goals. The Street Trust is proud to support their efforts to reduce collective VMT levels.

$Closing event sponsor Nelson\Nygaard$

We also want to celebrate The Street Trust’s Chair Drusilla van Hengel, a Senior Principal at Nelson/Nygaard and an esteemed and beloved professor at Portland State University. Along with being a transformational leader in her field, Dru has been instrumental in the The Street Trust’s success since she joined the board in October 2021. Through hard work and determination, Dru helped guide our organization through the many trials of the pandemic, ensuring that the Greater Portland metropolitan region would continue to have a powerful voice advocating for a safer, more accessible, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation system. In keeping with The Street Trust’s mission, Dru gets around the region using both TriMet and her Xtracycle — except when she uses carsharing to take her dog somewhere exciting.

When we asked Dru what an ideal transportation system would look like for her, she told us it would be on in which, “No people using our streets are required to trade personal safety or time to make up for gaps in our public space, walking, transit, or bike systems”.

Below are photos of Dru and many of our other wonderful supporters having fun at the 2022 Summit closing party. With help from generous sponsors like Nelson/Nygaard, The Street Trust hosts a wide variety ofevents like this one throughout the year. Our biggest annual events are the Oregon Active Transportation Summit and the Alice Awards, which take place in the Spring and Fall. If you are Interested in becoming a sponsor or a business member, please contact our Strategic Partnerships Manager at [email protected].

Help The Street Trust Celebrate Earth Day

Posted on April 7, 2022April 8, 2022 by Anouksha Gardner

Promo Poster for Eath Day Run with Sponsors

Happy Earth Month!

The Street Trust is teaming up with Nossa Familia, Bivo, and Legwork Local Delivery to amplify Earth Day on Friday, April 22nd. Our partnership with these businesses is part of a larger campaign hosted by Earth Day Oregon that amplifies ways to take action in Oregon on Earth Day. Each of our business partners are doing their part to amplify Earth Day while supporting the work The Street Trust is doing to create a transportation future that is equitable and sustainable.

Thank you to our business partners, to Human Access Project, and to Earth Day Oregon for assisting us in celebrating Earth Day.

Want to get in on the action? Join The Street Trust on a 3.65-mile run celebrating active transportation, community health, and our Earth on Sunday, April 24th.

A Warm Welcome to our Newest Business Members

Posted on January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 by Anouksha Gardner

The Street Trust welcomes Parking Reform Network, Forth Mobility, and Business for a Better Portland as our newest Reciprocal Business Members. We value partnerships with organizations where we can further each of our missions and collaborate to make our transportation future better. The membership is catered to the needs of each organization and allows for mutual promotion and participation in public and member events.

We have business memberships available to businesses and are open to forming partnerships through reciprocal memberships with businesses and organizations that share our mission, values, and priorities . These partnerships make our advocacy more powerful, by bridging communities across differences, issue areas, and geographic focus. They also strengthen your business through the technical support and robust networking TST membership offers.

We believe that we are stronger together than apart. We value partnerships that make it easier for us to collaborate for a better transportation future. PRN, FORTH, and BBPDX are all reciprocal members: unique partnerships designed to meet the needs of each organization. They allow for mutual promotion and participation in public and member events.

If you would like to join our work, please contact Strategic Partnerships Manager Anouksha Gardner: [email protected]

What unstoppable partnerships look like 🤝

Posted on October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 by Anouksha Gardner

Four people in brighlty colored jackets stand with bicycles in fornt of law office.

Thomas, Coon, Newton & Frost has been working with The Street Trust to improve our region’s transportation network for three full decades. Ray Thomas gave the first bicycle and pedestrian legal clinicin 1992, and since then, TCNF’s bicycle and pedestrian lawyers have continued performing hundreds of clinics across the state. Today, attorneys Cynthia Newton and Chris Thomas present most clinics for the firm. Any interested organizations are invited to reach out to TST or TCNF to schedule a clinic free of charge for your team, community, or organization.

On top of their unwavering support of pedestrian and bike clinics, TCNF has also been involved in The Street Trust’s legislative advocacy efforts over the years. A recent example is Ray Thomas’s testimony in Salem in favor of legislation clarifying that bicycle lanes exist within intersections, even when painted markings are interrupted. Jim Coon has also recently helped draft proposed legislation updating Oregon’s bicycle bill, and spoke at last year’s Active Transportation Summit on that topic.

When asked why safe streets are so important to them, TCNF said, “As injury lawyers we have an intimate view of the impact traffic collisions can have on the lives of our clients, from the acute stages of treatment to the long-term mental and physical repercussions. Unfortunately, fear of another collision often discourages our clients from riding the way they did before, and we know many other would-be cyclists avoid riding out of concern for their safety. We need safer streets to welcome those who want to get around without a car, but don’t currently feel safe doing so.”

The Street Trust partners with a wide range of organizations from non-profit, labor, business, health, education, faith, and other sectors. These partnerships make our advocacy more powerful, by bridging communities across differences, issue areas, and geographic focus. The Street Trust appreciates and values the relationship the organization has with Thomas, Coon, Newton & Frost, working together for safe streets for us all.

The Street Trust is always looking to partner with organizations and businesses. Become a business member/partner here.

The Street Trust’s Newest Champion Business Member B-line

Posted on September 22, 2021November 18, 2021 by Anouksha Gardner

We’d like to officially welcome our newest Champion Business Member B-Line to The Street Trust!

B-line is passionate about our community and the planet! As a certified B-Corporation, they work every day by working with their customers to reduce freight congestion, CO2 emissions, provide local green-collar jobs, streamlined recycling services, and helping feed those in need via their B-shares program.

Since 2008, B-line Urban Logistics has done this by offering advertising, warehousing, logistics, fulfillment, and zero-emission delivery services to an ever-growing group of businesses in Portland, Oregon. B-Line customers value the delivery time they save, the cost savings of a centrally managed warehouse with dedicated staff, and their ability to help scale quickly with delivery, fulfillment, warehousing, and advertising services in a centrally located solar-powered warehouse on SE 7th and Salmon street.

B-line’s founding premise, that business can be a catalyst for positive change, is quantified in their 2019 and 2020 impact reports.

Welcome to The Street Trust Family!

Become a Business Member and join The Street Trust Family.