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Hey Teens!
Now is the time
to get your school club, youth group, friends (and
yourself!) involved in volunteering. Get muddy in a
community garden, create cards for local seniors, plant a
tree in your
neighborhood, stock the pantry at your local food bank and
make a difference!
Featured Calendar Projects
Many more
projects can be found on the online
Project Calendar! Check it out!
Potluck In The Park
Sunday, July 5th / 2:00pm -6:00pm / Downtown Portland
Potluck has been serving a free hot meal to anyone in need
since 1991. Rain or shine, 52 weeks a year, we provide a hot
meal, every Sunday, at O'Bryant Square in downtown Portland.
Come on down and lend a hand!
(14+)
Salvage Building Materials: Rebuilding Center
Wednesday, July
8th / 1:00pm -3:30pm / N Portland
Reduce, recycle, reuse! Help reduce the flow of useable
building materials into the waste stream by volunteering at
the Rebuilding Center's non-profit store for used building
materials. We'll be doing a hands-on project, so come ready
to work and have fun!
(14+)
Restore Our Urban Forest along Terwilliger Blvd
Saturday, July
11th / 9:00am-12:00pm / SW Portland
Do you think nature is only found outside of the city? Think
again!
Enjoy your Saturday morning working outside to restore our
urban forest and meeting others in our community.
Join Friends of Terwilliger and the West Willamette
Restoration Partnership to restore our urban forest in
southwest Portland.
(6+)
Many more
projects can be found on the online
Project Calendar! Check it out!
Featured On-going / Referral Opportunities*
Cat Care Assistant for
Bonnie Hays Animal Shelter
Feed, water, clean, and socialize with
your human touch to get these kittens and cats ready for
adoption. Volunteers must be able to squat, bend, twist,
lift, and/or stand for long periods when working directly
with the animals. Volunteers need to demonstrate strong
customer service and positive staff relations skills. Also,
volunteers must be 16 years or older.
For more information about the shelter, please visit
http://www.co.washington.or.us/deptmts/at/dog/dog.htm
Early Childhood Education Volunteer Educator
Science Playground and Discovery Lab are OMSI's areas where
young children are able to learn and explore in fun,
educational settings. Volunteers assist parents and children
in experiencing the activities and exhibits and assist staff
in cleaning the space to maintain the safety of our youngest
visitors and their families.
(14+)
Lead Clay Glazing Workshops
Share the excitement as children’s clay art comes to life
with vibrant color! Help children choose colors to decorate
their creations and walk them through the glazing process.
Be responsible for running the entire activity; reliability
for this position is extremely important.
(16+)
Work with Refugee Youth! Homework Helpers at Kateri Park
Kateri Park is an affordable housing community, located just
south of Powell on 28th Avenue. In more than half of our
apartments, the residents are refugees. The largest group is
from Somalia, but we also have some Burmese and Ethiopian
refugee families.
The African families in particular face huge obstacles now
that they live in the USA. Most of them speak very little
English, and many of the adults are illiterate in any
language. The kids are learning, bit by bit, how to speak,
read and write English, but they are really struggling.
To help them, we run “Homework Club” M-Thu from 3-5, This is
a time set aside to work with the elementary, middle and
high school students on their assignments. “Homework club”
is enormously popular. Recently we’ve had over 40 children
stop by for help in the course of an afternoon. It can get
loud but it’s a lot of fun!
(16+)
*Please
note: On-going / referral
opportunities are not led by a Hands On Greater
Portland Volunteer Leader, but are led by the agency
sponsoring the opportunity. To get more information,
click "Have Agency Contact
Me" on the project description page and you will be
contacted by the agency about how to get involved.
Interested in Becoming a Volunteer Leader?
Want to develop your leadership skills? Build your
resume? Get yourself and your friends involved in your
community? Hands On Greater
Portland projects are led by our amazing Volunteer Leaders,
who ensure that every volunteer has a positive
experience and that agencies and volunteers alike are
benefiting from the project.
We are always looking for motivated new Volunteer Leaders
to lead our TEEN projects!
To sign-up for an orientation, contact Molly via email:
molly@handsonportland.org
Hot Spots to Volunteer
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Sketchbook Skills? Every organization has
fundraisers or events to support the work they do. Your
artistic skills would be greatly appreciated in
designing invitations or perhaps decorating a space before
an
event. Also, consider teaching an art class at a
Cedar Sinai Park, a senior center, or
the community center at
Friendly
House.
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Music as Service? Radio stations, like
KBOO,
love their volunteers. Even if you are just helping in
the office, you will get a great behind the scenes
experience of how a radio station runs.
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Better than Babysitting? There are many ways to
volunteer with kids in Portland metro area, with the chance
to interact with kids of all different backgrounds and
to
make a difference in their lives. Do you remember going
to
The Children’s Museum as a child? Now
you can go back and help make other people’s experience
as memorable as your own.
Teens speak...
"...The next day I knew I wanted to do something to help sick
children in anyway I could. So I looked up volunteering in
Portland and I found Hands On Portland. It was perfect for
me..."
Read Samantha's story
"By participating in lots of tree plantings, community
enrichment, school makeover, and invasive plants removal - I have
come to the conclusion that even one person can motivate
hundreds of others... it gave me more inspiration! And now,
it has become a part of my life!"
Read Shams' story
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