hospitality, meals, shelter, and recovery nonprofit
Blanchet House
Industry Civic Services
A Portland hospitality nonprofit providing meals, clothing, hygiene, shelter, community, and transitional recovery support, with a downtown house and rural farm. It scores highly because free essential aid, dignity, and long-term recovery support directly serve people excluded from ordinary markets.
Why this matters: Blanchet House adds a Portland essential-aid institution and its related farm location to Oregon coverage.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Ownership7/10
- Extraction7/10
- Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims8
- Direct axis claims8
- Coverage8/12
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
Blanchet House says it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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5 / 10 |
Blanchet House provides food, clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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7 / 10 |
Blanchet House provides food, clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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4 / 7 |
Blanchet House provides food, clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
Blanchet House's mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope by serving essential aid with dignity. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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7 / 7 |
Blanchet House welcomes and serves meals to everyone with compassion and dignity rather than charging guests. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
Blanchet House publishes public locations at 310 NW Glisan Street in Portland and Blanchet Farm at 11750 NE Finn Hill Loop in Carlton. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Blanchet House provides food, clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Blanchet House provides food, clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs. Linked evidence
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Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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1 / 3 |
Blanchet House follows a Catholic Worker hospitality model focused on direct service to people excluded from ordinary comfort and stability. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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2 / 3 |
Blanchet House treats food, shelter, hygiene, and community as dignified essentials rather than privileges reserved for paying customers. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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2 / 3 |
Blanchet House offers meals, clothing, hygiene, shelter, community, and support services to people in immediate need. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 75/100
8 verified linked claims 8 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 8/12 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 20/20
8 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
8 direct claims across 12 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 16, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 7/10
8/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Blanchet House says it is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
2Blanchet House publishes public locations at 310 NW Glisan Street in Portland and Blanchet Farm at 11750 NE Finn Hill Loop in Carlton.
- Blanchet House get helpGeneral web source · 58%
3Blanchet House provides food, clothing, hygiene items, community, and transitional recovery programs.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
4Blanchet House's mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope by serving essential aid with dignity.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
5Blanchet House welcomes and serves meals to everyone with compassion and dignity rather than charging guests.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
6Blanchet House follows a Catholic Worker hospitality model focused on direct service to people excluded from ordinary comfort and stability.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
7Blanchet House treats food, shelter, hygiene, and community as dignified essentials rather than privileges reserved for paying customers.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
8Blanchet House offers meals, clothing, hygiene, shelter, community, and support services to people in immediate need.
- Blanchet House homepageGeneral web source · 58%
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