Community Service
As we are shaped by our sacred story and sustained by our common table, our desire is that the animation of love moves us into overflowing generosity and care for the wider Portland community. Below you’ll find many opportunities to volunteer with non-profit organizations doing good work in our city. Whether you sign up as an individual or with your home group, partnering with local causes is one way we embody Divine Love!
Good Circumstances
Good Circumstance is a place of belonging for all community members. We provide a non-judgmental space with free internet/computer access, community classes, walk-in peer counseling, and a cozy place to enjoy literature in our non-lending library. We aim to serve the houseless population but our doors and events are open to all.
Ways to help include donating goods for the space, or volunteering to be present in the space to create a welcoming environment.
Good Circumstance is a place of belonging for all community members. We provide a non-judgmental space with free internet/computer access, community classes, walk-in peer counseling, and a cozy place to enjoy literature in our non-lending library. We aim to serve the houseless population but our doors and events are open to all.
Ways to help include donating goods for the space, or volunteering to be present in the space to create a welcoming environment.
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon is a statewide association of faith partners working together to improve the lives of Oregonians through public policy advocacy, direct service programs, creation justice, and ecumenical / interreligious education and dialogue.
EMO has volunteer opportunities across a wide range of social justice, relief, and creation care efforts.
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon is a statewide association of faith partners working together to improve the lives of Oregonians through public policy advocacy, direct service programs, creation justice, and ecumenical / interreligious education and dialogue.
EMO has volunteer opportunities across a wide range of social justice, relief, and creation care efforts.
SOLVE Oregon
SOLVE mobilizes and trains thousands of volunteers across Oregon and Southwest Washington. Volunteers engage in cleaning and restoring neighborhoods and natural areas, fostering a legacy of environmental care and community involvement.
SOLVE mobilizes and trains thousands of volunteers across Oregon and Southwest Washington. Volunteers engage in cleaning and restoring neighborhoods and natural areas, fostering a legacy of environmental care and community involvement.
SOLVE offers opportunities for individuals and groups to participate in clean-ups and wildlife habitat restorations, throughout the wider Portland area.
Council for the Homeless
Council for the Homeless is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide community leadership, compelling advocacy, and practical solutions to prevent and end homelessness in Clark County, Washington.
Council for the Homeless is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide community leadership, compelling advocacy, and practical solutions to prevent and end homelessness in Clark County, Washington.
Opportunities to get involved include making “welcome home baskets” with necessities for those being provided with housing.
Refugee Care Collective
Refugee Care Collective is a nonprofit organization that serves and empowers refugee families as they rebuild their lives.
Refugee Care Collective is a nonprofit organization that serves and empowers refugee families as they rebuild their lives.
Opportunities to volunteer include:
Build a Restart Kit—Refugee families often arrive in Oregon with few possessions, and have to quickly build their lives again. Restart Kits are filled with essential household items including pots & pans, bathroom towels, and cleaning supplies, and communicate a message of welcome better than anything else initially can.
Become a Mentor–Our Mentorship Programs focus on long-term care and are designed to extend tangible support to those on their path to self-sufficiency, while also providing community. We believe that real hospitality is found not just in the initial welcome or moments after arrival, but in walking alongside for years to come. We have seen how long-term presence has the power to transform people’s lives, turning strangers into neighbors and neighbors into family.
Stone Soup PDX
Weekly volunteer opportunity consists of picking up meals from Stone Soup and dropping them off to site partners.
Stone Soup PDX empowers people experiencing barriers to employment to achieve self-reliance through training for careers in the foodservice industry.
Help drive/deliver contract meals
Throughout the pandemic, Stone Soup transformed from a brick and mortar restaurant to a production kitchen which distributes meals to programs that need them. This is a weekly volunteer opportunity consists of picking up meals from Stone Soup and dropping them off to our site partners. The deliveries will come in 2-3 boxes typically. Volunteers will arrive at Stone Soup to load the boxes into the car and then will be off for delivery. The total volunteer time for completing the delivery trip is around one hour, though some locations are closer.
Oregon Humane Society
Volunteer applications open each January for roles including dog-walking, groundskeeping and data entry.
Volunteer applications open each January for roles including dog-walking, groundskeeping and data entry.
The Pixie Project
A non-profit animal rescue and adoption agency. Volunteers provide cleaning and socialization for cats, and drive pets to foster homes.
A non-profit animal rescue and adoption agency. Volunteers provide cleaning and socialization for cats, and drive pets to foster homes.
Friends of Trees
Provide free trees and native shrubs to increase Portland’s canopy cover and reduce heat islands in urban areas.
Volunteer roles include driving tree deliveries and planting trees.
Provide free trees and native shrubs to increase Portland’s canopy cover and reduce heat islands in urban areas.
Volunteer roles include driving tree deliveries and planting trees.
Habitat For Humanity/REStore
Opportunities include full home building projects, volunteering at ReStore locations to build furniture, organize, painting, etc. Great for groups!
Opportunities include full home building projects, volunteering at ReStore locations to build furniture, organize, painting, etc. Great for groups!
Blanchet House
Provides food, housing assistance, and clothing in Old Town Portland. Volunteer help includes serving meals, sorting clothing donations, preparing and donating care kits, packing sack lunches and donating needed clothing items.
Provides food, housing assistance, and clothing in Old Town Portland. Volunteer help includes serving meals, sorting clothing donations, preparing and donating care kits, packing sack lunches and donating needed clothing items.
Rahab's Sisters
We build community through radical hospitality with women and gender-diverse individuals marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex work, violence and substance abuse.
Since 2003, we have centered our radical hospitality around community meals where trust and friendship can grow.
We build community through radical hospitality with women and gender-diverse individuals marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex work, violence and substance abuse.
Since 2003, we have centered our radical hospitality around community meals where trust and friendship can grow.
PDX Q Center
Provides support groups and resources for queer youth and adults.
Contact for information about possible volunteer needs; financial support is always needed.
Provides support groups and resources for queer youth and adults.
Contact for information about possible volunteer needs; financial support is always needed.
Meals on Wheels People
Provide food deliveries, dining centers, and social support for homebound seniors.
Provide food deliveries, dining centers, and social support for homebound seniors.
Hand Up Project
A pantry run by and geared toward LGBTQIA+/BIPOC Community. Volunteer needs include staffing food pantry, Mondays and Tuesdays, 11:15am-4pm.
A pantry run by and geared toward LGBTQIA+/BIPOC Community. Volunteer needs include staffing food pantry, Mondays and Tuesdays, 11:15am-4pm.
Pearl Court Apartments
We’ve connected with our neighbors at Pearl Court in many ways over the years. They have several pantries and a community coordinator. Volunteer opportunities include organizing a food drive to help stock their pantry, and organizing a community dinner.
Contact Pastor Ben for the email address to reach out to.
We’ve connected with our neighbors at Pearl Court in many ways over the years. They have several pantries and a community coordinator. Volunteer opportunities include organizing a food drive to help stock their pantry, and organizing a community dinner.
Contact Pastor Ben for the email address to reach out to.
Cascade AIDS Project
Provides services for supporting individuals living with HIV/AIDS, including housing assistance, food pantry, healthcare navigation and emotional support.
Volunteer needs are mostly during business hours, including food pantr. assistance, reception, etc. There are also several events each year that need volunteer staff, and the AIDS Walk Northwest each September (https://www.aidswalknorthwest.org)/
Provides services for supporting individuals living with HIV/AIDS, including housing assistance, food pantry, healthcare navigation and emotional support.
Volunteer needs are mostly during business hours, including food pantr. assistance, reception, etc. There are also several events each year that need volunteer staff, and the AIDS Walk Northwest each September (https://www.aidswalknorthwest.org)/
Lift Urban Portland (LiftUP)
Provides fresh produce and other pantry needs for low-income residents of Portland.
Volunteer needs include packing groceries, helping staff their pantry, driving deliveries of food, and making cards to include with grocery deliveries.
Provides fresh produce and other pantry needs for low-income residents of Portland.
Volunteer needs include packing groceries, helping staff their pantry, driving deliveries of food, and making cards to include with grocery deliveries.