Date | Hosting Nonprofit | Project Description |
Mon., Sept. 9 | Sunshine Division | Volunteers will work in the warehouse to prepare boxes, sort food or assist with recycling efforts. |
| Friends of Trees | Volunteers will be removing invasive English Ivy and Himalayan blackberry, cleaning up trash and mulching native plants. |
| Children’s Book Bank | Volunteers will spruce-up community donated books which will later be distributed to low-income preschool children in the Portland area. |
| Beaverton School District | Volunteers will sort new and gently used clothes for students in need. |
Tues., Sept. 10 | Project Lemonade | Volunteers will check in foster youth shoppers, work the retail floor helping youth find sizes and assist with check out once a shopper is done shopping. |
| Kindness Farm | Volunteers will help create a “food forest,” removing "invasive" weeds, creating pathways and planting areas, building wood-berms for planting, card boarding and wood chipping, planting, seeding and harvesting. |
| Blanchet House | Volunteers will help with plating food in the kitchen, serving meals to guests, light cleaning and busing tables, preparing produce in the kitchen, organizing and handing out clothing, pouring and serving drinks and rolling forks and/or spoons. |
| Northeast Emergency Food Pantry | Northeast Emergency Food Program (NEFP) holds indoor, self-serve shopping three days per week. Volunteers will help serve clients directly. Some positions involve light lifting (up to 20 pounds). |
Wed., Sept. 11 | Habitat for Humanity Restore | Volunteers will help receive and sort donated items, landscape, organize shelves, price donated items, rearrange/put together furniture, metal recycling, and more. |
| Meals on Wheels | Volunteer projects include meal delivery ride-along, friendly chats to seniors and writing cards. |
| Ronald McDonald House | Volunteers will make delicious homemade meals for the families of critically ill and injured children. They will prep the meal, serve it buffet style, tour the House, enjoy the meal and pack up the leftovers. |
| Adelante Mujeres | Volunteers will help with set up for Farmer’s Market, assist during it and later help tear down the Farmer’s Market. |
Thu., Sept. 12 | Harper’s Playground | Volunteers will help with weeding, sweeping, garbage pick-up, sand area "fluffing", pruning and planting. |
| Habitat for Humanity Restore | Volunteers will help with receiving and sorting donated items, landscaping, organizing shelves, pricing donated items, rearranging/putting together furniture, metal recycling and more. |
| Children’s Book Bank | Volunteers will spruce-up community donated books which will later be distributed to low-income preschool children in the Portland area. |
| Trillium Family Services | Volunteers will help restore the community garden. |
| Ronald McDonald House | Volunteers will make a meal for the RMHC residents. |
| Blanchet House | Volunteers will help with plating food in the kitchen, serving meals to guests, light cleaning and busing tables, preparing produce in the kitchen, organizing and handing out clothing, pouring and serving drinks and rolling forks and/or spoons. |
Fri., Sept. 13 | Adopt One Block/We Believe in Portland | Volunteers will help with city cleanup in downtown Portland alongside Adopt One Block and We Believe. Each participant will receive a special volunteer shirt. Volunteers will meet at Pioneer Place at 11 a.m. for a welcome and celebration. Cleanup will conclude at Providence Park where volunteers will get pizza for lunch. |
