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VANCOUVER<\/text>PORTLAND<\/text>TIGARD<\/text>SALEM<\/text>CORVALLIS<\/text>EUGENE<\/text><\/svg><\/div>
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Where swaps happen<\/p>

Where swaps happen.<\/span> Portland and Salem first.<\/em><\/h1><\/span>

Bloom Swaps happen at host venues in Oregon and Washington. Hosts are being signed in Portland metro and Salem first, and a swap can come to any city where a host lends a room. Wherever you are, the list tells you when one is set near you.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Tell me when one is near me<\/span><\/svg><\/a>How a swap works<\/span><\/svg><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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<\/span><\/span>Oregon<\/span><\/span><\/div>
<\/span><\/span>Washington<\/span><\/span><\/div>
<\/span><\/span>Free<\/span><\/span><\/div>
<\/span><\/span>No ID<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

The board<\/p>

Find a clothing swap near you in Oregon and Washington. Choose your city.<\/em><\/h2>

Every announced swap, filtered by city. Choose yours and the board remembers it in this browser, and nowhere else.<\/p><\/header>

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No swap is announced yet.<\/p>

Dates are set with each host at least sixty days ahead, and the list hears two weeks before a swap near you. No date is promised until it is on this board.<\/p>

Tell me when<\/span><\/svg><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

An empty board is an honest board. A swap appears here only after a host has agreed a date and Bloom has entered it, two weeks before the day.<\/p><\/div><\/section>

Choose your door<\/p>

The regions.<\/h2>

Each region has its own line on the list, so a message about a swap reaches the people nearest it. Choose yours.<\/p><\/header>

<\/svg><\/span>01<\/span><\/span>Portland metro, including Tigard<\/span>The first Bloom Swap was held in Tigard, and hosts across the metro are being signed first. No swap announced here yet; the list hears first.<\/span>Tell me first<\/svg><\/span>Your path<\/span><\/a><\/svg><\/span>02<\/span><\/span>Salem<\/span>Bloom Ministries is based here, and hosts are being signed here first alongside Portland. No swap announced here yet; the list hears first.<\/span>Tell me first<\/svg><\/span>Your path<\/span><\/a><\/svg><\/span>03<\/span><\/span>Vancouver, Washington<\/span>Across the river from Portland, with its own line on the list. No swap announced here yet; the list hears first.<\/span>Tell me first<\/svg><\/span>Your path<\/span><\/a><\/svg><\/span>04<\/span><\/span>Eugene and Corvallis<\/span>Two campus cities sharing one line on the list. No swap announced here yet; the list hears first.<\/span>Tell me first<\/svg><\/span>Your path<\/span><\/a><\/svg><\/span>05<\/span><\/span>Elsewhere in Oregon or Washington<\/span>Choose Elsewhere on the list. The count by region is how Bloom sees where people are waiting for a host.<\/span>Tell me first<\/svg><\/span>Your path<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

When a region has a host or a date, it gets a page of its own, and its door here leads there.<\/p><\/div><\/section>

How it happens<\/p>

How a city gets a swap.<\/h2>

A swap comes to a city when someone there lends a room. Everything else, Bloom brings.<\/p><\/header>

  1. 01<\/span>

    A host offers a room<\/h3>

    A congregation, campus group, clinic or community organization tells Bloom about its space.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

  2. 02<\/span>

    A date is set together<\/h3>

    At least sixty days ahead, once the host has said yes to the playbook and its conduct rules.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

  3. 03<\/span>

    The list hears<\/h3>

    Two weeks before the day, everyone on the list in that region gets one message with the venue, the hours and the access line.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

  4. 04<\/span>

    Bloom brings the swap<\/h3>

    Racks, clothes, signage and volunteers arrive the day before, and everything leaves the day after.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ol>\n

    If you know a room in your city that could hold a swap, tell Bloom about it<\/a>, or pass this page to the person who books it.<\/p>\n