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William Temple House and Thrift Store

We offer low-cost counseling, healthy groceries, household items, and more to our community.

Grounded in a commitment to social justice, William Temple House has supported the mental, emotional, and physical health of tens of thousands of Portlanders since 1965.

10/09/2025

Recover from Burnout with a free burnout support group at William Temple House this winter!

Hear from Willow (they/them) about what you can expect from their group - and join by October 19th (deadline extended!) by emailing wmurdock@williamtemple.org

Our free counseling groups are run by our Counseling interns as part of their year-long training in community mental health care at WTH. When you donate to WTH or receive counseling, you're supporting Oregon's next generation of counselors!

10/02/2025

October Pet Food Drive benefitting the furry visitors of William Temple House Food Pantry 😻

Through October 31st, you can drop off canned and bagged pet food - for cats, dogs, and other pets - at three NW Portland businesses: Tender Loving Empire, Kiehl's, and William Temple House Thrift Store.

Don't have food to donate? Hip Hound Bakery sells pet food and is located within three blocks of each of our drop off locations.

William Temple House staff have been dreaming of a collaborative pet food drive for years. When a person struggles with food insecurity, having pets to feed adds more worry. You can support your neighbor by donating pet food this month. All donations will stock William Temple House's food pantry, which serves 300+ Portlanders a week.

Huge thank you to Tender Loving Empire and Kiehl's on 23rd for passionately embracing this project and collecting!

09/30/2025

📣New Community Offering

Who can relate to feeling burnt out? 🙋‍♀️ William Temple House is offering a free burnout support group for adults. Together, we'll learn skills to deal with burnout and recharge in a supportive group setting.

🆓 Zero cost
🏠 On-site at William Temple House in NW Portland
📧 Email Willow at wmurdock@williamtemple.org to join

Please share widely.

09/29/2025

Celebrating 20 years of the Returning Veterans Project supporting the mental and physical health of veterans and their families. 💙

Half of all post-9/11 veterans aren’t enrolled in the VA’s health care system, and women and LGBTQIA+ veterans face unique barriers to care. RVP’s accessible mental health care services are vital.

Thank you, RVP, for your dedication and for sharing expertise that helps us make our own low-cost counseling services more accessible!

09/28/2025

William Temple House is concerned by the USDA’s decision to end its annual Household Food Security Reports, a critical tool for tracking hunger nationwide. Ending this data collection won’t end hunger. And ending this survey at a time when federal food assistance (SNAP) is being cut will make it harder to understand and combat food insecurity.

We know how important data and surveys are—here are four ways data has helped us better serve our community. We’ll continue doing what we can but this step backwards doesn’t help, it hinders.

09/25/2025

It was a joy to connect with community champions at the Christ Church Episcopal Parish Lake Oswego Oregon Compassion in Action event earlier this September. This event raised funds for nonprofits doing important work, including William Temple House. For 60 years, WTH has provided food, counseling, and connection to anyone in our community—made possible through the support of organizations like Christ Church and so many others who share our mission.

09/23/2025

Meet Randall*, a Veteran and regular at our food pantry. After his personal belongings were stolen, Randall found comfort in community care. 💙 We’re proud to support neighbors like Randall with dignified, accessible food assistance and mental health care.

*Pseudonym

09/17/2025

Addressing food insecurity requires some creativity. It’s a good thing we have Matt on the WTH team. He built FEED, an ai-powered tool that translates our weekly grocery lists into dozens of languages in seconds. FEED saves us hours every week and makes our pantry more accessible to non-English speakers. Matt’s ultimate goal is to make FEED open source for other nonprofits to use. Check out our video essay to learn more.

This , WTH is spotlighting the creative efforts we’re using to feed our community. Everyone has a role to play in creating food security, including creating tech-powered solutions like FEED.

09/12/2025

How many languages do you recognize? 🌍

Our pantry speaks many languages: Mandarin, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, and more. So how do we bridge the language barriers to ensure everyone can access food equitably? Staff member, Matt, built a translation tool to solve this dilemma.

✨ Learn more in our video essay dropping next week.

Happy Friday!

09/11/2025

September is Hunger Action Month, and at William Temple House, we are committed to addressing food insecurity, with equity, dignity, and mental health care at the forefront.

Some essential facts:
-Demand for food pantries has increased state-wide by 30%. We saw a 30% increase in pantry visitors last year.

-Cuts to federal benefits like SNAP will have wide impacts, likely deepening food insecurity in our community.

-Food insecurity and mental health care are intimately linked. That’s why we provide low-cost counseling and a food pantry in the same building to nourish the whole person.

Over the coming weeks, we will post information, testimonies from our community, and actions we are taking--and that you can take--to make a difference in this moment. No action is too small. Follow along!

Thank you to our peer organizations who share the mission of fighting hunger!

09/01/2025

In observance of Labor Day, William Temple House and Thrift Store will be closed today, Monday, September 1st. Today, we honor the able hands and labor - visible and invisible - that build our communities. And we honor the rest and support that labor requires. At William Temple House, anyone can find the food assistance and low-cost counseling they need to rest and thrive.

Address

2023 NW Hoyt Street
Portland, OR
97209

Telephone

+15032263021

Website

https://www.williamtemple.org/

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