Ellen Damaschino

As we wrap up 2025, I keep coming back to one simple truth: this year was about showing up . Showing up for our participants. Showing up for each other. Showing up for our city, with soup, with skill-building, with advocacy, and sometimes with hot cocoa on a cold bike bus morning. We opened our first-ever public-facing café at Glisan Landing in Montavilla, and with it, a whole new chapter for Stone Soup PDX. The café has created meaningful, real-world learning opportunities for our...

At Stone Soup PDX, the importance of cooking food for our community is obvious—after all, it’s what we do every day. But it’s more than...

Let’s be real: the world feels like a bit of a mess right now. Prices are up, resources are stretched thin, and somehow, despite living...