LIVE Behind the Scenes of AMPLIFY PDX: How Open Signal Is Helping Build a New Model for Community Fundraising - 08-09-25

AMPLIFY PDX is, at first glance, a street festival. There will be food carts, live music, youth art-making, tabling, poetry, and even a live podcast taping. But AMPLIFY PDX is something much more intentional: a collective strategy for resource sharing and mutual support. This celebration was built on a foundation of trust, transparency, and equal participation. Each organization involved will receive a share of the proceeds and has played a role in shaping the event. Open Signal has been working steadily behind the scenes to support that shared vision, providing critical capacity to make the event successful. This includes coordinating city permits, insurance, and site logistics, designing the site map and access plans, and building the communications and branding tools that hold the event together. Our team has also supported shared fundraising efforts, developed sponsorship materials, managed the timeline and planning calendar, and convened regular working group meetings with all 20 partner organizations. These tasks are often invisible, but they are essential to building a truly collaborative event. In a time when frontline organizations are stretched thin, AMPLIFY offers a public demonstration of what is possible when we invest in community-led infrastructure. Open Signal believes that media centers, creative hubs, and local institutions have a unique role to play in connecting art, activism, and economic justice.