Organization | Description | Link |
| Multomah County / City of Portland | Multnomah County and the City of Portland have launched the Joint Volunteer Information Center to coordinate a regional response to COVID-19. Organizations and individuals across the area have asked how they can help, offering their time and goods to help slow the spread of this virus. | |
| Clackamas Service Center | Clackamas Service Center is in need of volunteer food box drivers and food box packers. | https://cscoregon.org/volunteer |
| Blanchet House | Blanchet House is in need of volunteers to prepare and serve to-go meals Monday through Saturday, three times a day. Volunteers shifts are 6-7:30 a.m.; 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., and 4:30-6 p.m. | https://blanchethouse.org/volunteer/ |
| Oregon Food Bank | Oregon Food Bank has a variety of volunteer opportunities and have edited their volunteer program with social distancing and safety covid measures in mind. See link for volunteer event calendar. | https://www.oregonfoodbank.org/get-involved/volunteer-2/ |
| American Red Cross | Due to covid, plasma donations have dropped significantly throughout the US. American Red Cross is in need of both blood donors and volunteers. There are various volunteer opportunities such as volunteers willing to deliver lifesaving blood to those in need, disaster relief volunteers, and work from home volunteers. | |
| APANO- Mutual Aid Volunteer Form | This list is being compiled by APANO to share with | |
| Meals on Wheels | Volunteers are the heart and soul of Meals on Wheels People and we depend on more than 400 people every day to help prepare meals and deliver meals to participants. Pick up for meal deliveries is Monday-Friday between 10am and 12pm. Delivery routes take about 1.5 hours to complete. | https://mowp.volunteerhub.com |
| P: ear | Volunteer needs: We’d love your help preparing and donating food! We are serving over 150 to-go meals per day and are seeking help to continue to meet the needs of Portland's homeless youth. We remain committed to doing our very best to ensure that p:ear continues to be a compassionate, safe and reliable resource to our community during this challenging time. To sign up to provide food for at least 125 people (or donate food items to supplement bagged meals) on a day that works well for you | https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/1wgw6q |
| Operation Nightwatch | Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland’s unhoused population to promote dignity, community, and social connection. | |
| Store to Door | Sign up to shop for groceries for seniors. The easiest way to get started is to visit our volunteer registration website and select a grocery shopping shift. You can click the link below, create an account, and select a shift that works well with your schedule! We have two locations (Fred Meyer at Hollywood and Beaverton) to support. We provide training at the store and have hand sanitizer or Lysol wipes available to keep volunteers healthy. | https://storetodooroforegon.volunteerhub.com |
| Transition Projects | Transition Projects provides individuals with the services, resources and tools they need to end their homelessness, secure housing, and maintain that housing. -Each year, we assist more than 10,000 people experiencing homelessness. -On any given day, we help meet the basic needs of nearly 500 people through our Resource Center. -On any given night, we provide a safe place to sleep for more than 800 people with nowhere else to turn. -In any given year, we help place more than 1,000 people into affordable housing - and then support them in retaining that housing. Whenever and wherever we can, we advocate for policies and initiatives that affirm the right of all people to a place they can call home. | General Volunteer link: https://www.tprojects.org/volunteer/ Volunteer to sew masks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-xpI7Ow4dfaD0EPeVG_MmLWP3l4Qk... |
| Salvation Army | We're all in this together. The Salvation Army is working with local, state, and federal government and health authorities, including participating in situation awareness calls with federal partners like FEMA, CDC, DHS, and HHS. We anticipate a significant increase in need of emergency assistance for low-wage employees facing layoffs due to COVID-19. The support we provide – rent/mortgage, utility, and food assistance, among others – will become more urgent as the situation evolves. We need your support so your local facilities can continue to meet the daily needs of these vulnerable populations. | https://portland.salvationarmy.org/portland2/covid-19-volunteer-opportunities/ |
| Oregon Office of Emergency Management | On March 8, 2020, Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency to address the spread of COVID-19 in Oregon. This declaration gives the Governor authority to direct state agencies to use and employ state personnel, equipment, and facilities for activities designated to prevent or alleviate actual or threatened damage due to the emergency. In response to the declaration, the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) mobilized the state Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) to coordinate and support state and local recovery efforts. The ECC is collaborating with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and its Agency Operations Center (AOC). OHA serves as the lead agency for public health response efforts and the ECC is focused on minimizing any disruption to critical services in Oregon. | https://oregon-coronavirus-geo.hub.arcgis.com |
| Oregon City Public School District | During these difficult times it makes sense to come together as a community to support one another. If you have interest in adding your name to the list of possible volunteers, please do so below. Example duties: Delivering food and materials, helping at feeding locations, calling families, social media monitoring, and various other duties. For those that want to help support the Pioneer Pantry during the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit our online donation form at https://or-oregoncity-lite.intouchreceipting.com. Durante estos tiempos difíciles, es importante unirse como comunidad para apoyarse mutuamente. Si tiene interés en agregar su nombre a la lista de posibles voluntarios, hágalo aquí. Ejemplos de trabajos voluntarios: Entregar alimentos y materiales, ayudar en los lugares de alimentación, llamar a las familias, monitorear las redes sociales y otras tareas. | https://www.ocsd62.org/district/covid-19-volunteering-signup |
| Portland Mutual Aid Request Form *To Offer Support See Link* | Please use this form if you would like food or other supplies delivered to you. We are prioritizing folks who are sick, unhoused, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, refugees and immigrants, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, trans, and queer, including those displaced from Portland to the nearby areas. Thank you for your patience and grace.
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| Food for Lane County | FOOD for Lane County is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit food bank founded in 1984 and dedicated to reducing hunger by engaging our community to create access to food. We accomplish this by soliciting, collecting, rescuing, growing, preparing and packaging food for distribution through a network of 157 social service agencies and programs; through public awareness, education and community advocacy; and through programs designed to improve the ability of low-income individuals to maintain an adequate supply of wholesome, nutritious food. These programs include emergency food boxes, shelters, meal sites, rehabilitation facilities, nutrition education, gleaning and community gardens. | https://foodforlanecounty.org |
| Portland Street Medicine (Volunteer and Donation) | Portland Street Medicine is a volunteer-driven initiative and will continue to be so. As we ramp up our street outreach in response to COVID-19, it makes the most sense for us to useour volunteer clinicians for the provision of care. We know your resources are stretched thin and the word urgent has taken on new meaning. Every hour matters in response to COVID-19, and with your support now we can bend the curve of this crisis. If you're looking for a meaningful way to take action, donate to Portland Street Medicine today. We'll bring care and services to our homeless neighbors on your behalf. Our goal is to raise $86,408 for our emergency response plan. | https://www.portlandstreetmedicine.org/covid19 |
| United Way of Lane County | Various covid-volunteer opportunities for Lane County | https://www.volunteeruwlane.org/covid19volunteer |
| With Love | Our mission is to help foster families change the lives of children ages 0-6 by providing resources that nurture dignity, hope and community. | https://www.withloveoregon.org |
| Marion Polk Food Share | The Marion Polk Food Share is in need of volunteer drivers to deliver Meals on Wheels to community members in need | https://www.marionpolkfoodshare.org/volunteer/ |
| Luke Dorf | The non-profit offers clinical care, peer support programs, residential treatment and supportive housing, to people with persistent mental health experiences. They're in need of funds, supplies, and other donations. | http://www.luke-dorf.org/ways-to-give |
| Made to Thrive Hermiston | Funds secure food, household essentials and other items for low-income, foster system-involved, and justice system-involved youth and their families in Umatilla and Morrow counties while schools are closed. | https://www.madetothrive.org/donate |
| Kairos | Based in Grants Pass, the agency provides mental health services to at-risk youth. In need of funding/ donations to support the program | https://www.kairosnw.org/donate |
| We Care Corvallis | Funds go to help with community members needing assistance with rent and utilities in Benton County. | https://www.wecarecorvallis.org/how-to-help-1 |
| Northwest Pilot Project | Money raised goes to support placing homeless seniors into housing and preventing very-low income seniors from becoming homeless. | |
| Family Meal | The nonprofit based in Portland provides financial relief to food industry and agricultural workers and their families. In need of donations. | https://www.familymealpdx.org |
| Society of St. Vincent de Paul | St. Vincent de Paul is an Oregon 501(c) 3 public benefit non-profit organization. Please give now and help us to make a difference in the lives of others. In need of donations to provide emergency food and grants to help pay rent or utilities to community members. | https://www.svdppdx.org/a150/donate/ |