Murmurs: Street Roots Pleads for Financial Help

STREET ROOTS PLEADS FOR FINANCIAL HELP: Street Roots, the nonprofit organization and newspaper, is asking for money amid what it describes as a budget crunch. It’s seeking to raise an additional $288,000 by Sept. 30—it’s already raised another $312,000 from private donors—as part of an “emergency fundraising campaign.” Street Roots cites a number of factors that led to the cash flow problems: an inability to cover operational costs at its new headquarters in Old Town; what the nonprofit calls “optimistic hiring and program expansion decisions made without the financial infrastructure to support that growth”; and staff and leadership turnover. That likely refers to Kaia Sand, the nonprofit’s longtime executive director, who went on leave late last year and resigned shortly afterward. At t