Volunteer Opportunities

If you’re looking to get your church congregation involved in serving our houseless neighbors, please reach out to info@togetherpdx.org. In addition to the opportunities below, we are aware of many needs for group projects and other creative ways to serve. We would love to share those with you.

Agape Village

  • Breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness with transitional shelter, emergency winter shelter, weekly showers, and more. Located off Powell and 205.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Cook a meal

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Pray and talk with overnight shelter guests, 8:30-9 PM nightly
    -Teach a class
    -Mentor program participants
    -Village host volunteer (think “camp host”)

  • Email at info@agapevillagepdx.org

Clackamas Service Center

  • Clackamas Service Center (CSC) is an inclusive "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Help with larger clean up projects

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Building food boxes for grocery delivery (weekly)

  • Clackamas Service Center Volunteer Website Here.

Cultivate Initiatives

  • We work alongside our neighbors who have been marginalized (primarily in east Portland/east Multnomah County) through community health, workforce development, and housing, and sheltering.

  • Volunteer Once:
    Cook and serve a meal at a shower site

    Volunteer Regularly:
    Organizing the clothing closet (groups of 3)

  • Get connected to Cultivate Initiatives here.

Love INC East Multnomah County

  • We help churches help people by developing a network of local churches and connecting them with opportunities to serve their neighbors in need.

  • Volunteer Regularly:
    Take calls in the Call Center

  • loveincportlandemc@gmail.com

Rahab’s Sister

  • Provides radical hospitality to women and gender-diverse folks marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex works, substance use, and violence. We provide a safe space in east Portland to gather, have home-made meals served restaurant style, clothing, basic supplies, mental health support, friendship, community.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Cook and drop off a meal for 100 (needed Wednesdays and 1st/4th Fridays)
    -Serve a meal (needed 1st and 4th Fridays)
    -Organize supplies and clothing (needed Wednesdays at 10 AM, or other times with notice)
    -Help with the drop-in boutique (needed Wednesdays 1:30-4:30 )
    -Prep/donate healthy and substantial snacks, ready to serve buffet style

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Same as all of the above, AND
    -Table hosts for dinner and drop-in
    -Activity hosts
    -Greeters
    -Monthly inventory
    -Simply hang out with the guests (Wednesdays 2-4 pm and Fridays 5-8 pm)

  • Get connected here.

Bybee Lakes

  • Program-based transitional housing for the homeless, located in North Portland.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Serve a meal (4:45 PM daily)
    -Teach a class

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Teach a class
    -Be a mentor

  • Email Gloria for next steps: g.perez@helpinghandsreentry.org

Community Dinners

  • Community building through a shared meal in low-income apartments and vocational workshops.

  • Volunteer Once, or Regularly:
    -Serve meals
    -Cook a meal
    -Set up/clean up
    -Live music
    -Child care
    -Vocational workshop table facilitator

  • Email: volunteer@communitydinnerspdx.com

Dinner and a Movie

  • Mentorship, food, medical supplies, and warming/cooling needs for people living on the streets, plus pathways to get out.

  • Volunteer Once, or Regularly:
    -Help with an outreach

  • Get connected with Dinner and a Movie here.

Loving One Another

  • Through trusted relationships, empathetic communication, and unifying community members, LOA meets the immediate emotional, and physical needs of individuals experiencing homelessness by offering wraparound services to transform lives.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Organize supplies in the resource center
    -Prayer walks
    -Trash clean up
    -Do intakes with homeless individuals
    -Provide treats

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Organize the resource center
    -Serve with an outreach specialist

  • Email Tamara at: tamara@loapdx.org

Salvation Army Female Emergency Shelter

  • Empowering the lives of women experiencing homelessness by offering basic needs and support services, including emergency shelter, showers, restrooms, lockers, telephone, resting areas, laundry, on-site support groups, activities, case management, information, referrals, snacks and advocacy.

  • Volunteer Once, or Regularly:
    -Clean
    -Serve a Meal
    -Cook a meal

  • Reach out to Kristi: kristi.bugge@usw.salvationarmy.org

CityTeam

  • Homeless and addiction services in central southeast Portland, including emergency shelter, food, clothing, and a residential discipleship and recovery program.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Serve dinner

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Night Strike (every Thursday)
    -Love Your Neighbor Event (4th Saturday)
    -Women’s Services

    And more!

  • Next steps to volunteer with CityTeam here.

Community of Hope

  • Transitional shelter in North Portland for single-parent households.

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Cook a meal
    -Throw a party/event
    -Work in the garden
    -Host a class

    Volunteer Regularly:
    -Visit weekly/monthly
    -On-going garden maintenance
    -Teach a course/facilitate a group

  • Connect with Community of Hope here.

Family Promise of Metro East

  • Shelter and case management for homeless families, primarily from NE and SE Portland.

  • Volunteer Regularly (weekly, monthly, or quarterly, in groups of 1-4):
    -Help at our host sites
    -Cook a meal
    -Plan activities
    -Help at day center
    -Be an overnight volunteer
    -Adopt a family moving out

  • Learn more about volunteering here.

My Father’s House

  • Shelter and back-to-work program in Gresham, OR for single moms, single dads, and two-parent families with children under 18.

  • Volunteer Once, or Regularly:
    -Sort donated items
    -Work in the children's center
    -Clean rooms after someone moves out
    -Teach class
    Volunteer at an event

  • Learn more about volunteering here.

Portland Rescue mission

  • We provide shelters, meals and personal services, Christian discipleship, life skills training and addiction recovery for people of Portland.

  • Volunteer Regularly:
    -Purchase and cook a meal
    -Front Desk at Shelter
    -Serve Breakfast at Shelter

    One-time tours also available!

  • Get connected to PRM here.

Transitional Youth / Braking Cycles

  • Serving at-risk (homeless, trafficked, aging out of foster care, etc.) youth by providing housing, discipleship, job training, life-skills and hope!

  • Volunteer Once:
    -Grounds work: Gardening, mowing, trimming
    -Adopt a Room Program
    -Sponsor Christmas or Birthdays for Residents
    -Creating Gift Baskets for New Residents (

    Volunteer Regularly: Same as above, AND
    -Mentoring/Discipleship
    -Prayer sponsorship
    -Life-skills instruction
    -Driving residents to appointments, practice, etc
    -Providing childcare for residents to attend appointments, meet with mentors, etc

  • www.transitionalyouth.org

    Hello@transitionalyouth.org

Union Gospel Mission

  • Addiction recovery for men, women, and children; street outreach, emergency shelter, case management, sharing the Gospel.

  • Volunteer Once, or Regularly:
    -Search + Rescue (mobile outreach) - meet people living outside
    -Provide cold beverages, food, and hygiene
    -Shower ministry - sign people up for showers, clean out showers after each use
    -Sort clothing
    -Prep sack lunches at downtown facility.

    Volunteer as a Group:
    Looking for groups of 10-15 to volunteer with homeless services in a 2 ½ hour block during the day on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Tasks can include sorting and assembling supplies like clothing or hygiene items for our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Also looking for groups of 15 or less to volunteer in our Tigard thrift store Tuesday-Saturday to do things like sort and stock donations.

  • Get connected here.

Home Share OR

  • We increase access to affordable housing and prevent the trauma of homelessness before it starts, through matching homeowners with a spare room to rent with folks looking for a home.

  • Volunteer Once, or Regularly:

    • Phone calls to conduct surveys, check-in with homesharers, and take feedback

  • Call 503-515-2397 or email info@homeshareoregon.org

All Good Nw

  • Sheltering and wrap-around supportive services for adult individuals experiencing houselessness all over Portland.

  • Volunteer Regularly:

    Set up a meal train for residents (i.e. sack lunches every Thursday)

  • Email at info@allgoodnw.org