In partnership with the Department of Human Services, Every Child PDX connects caring community members with vulnerable children & families impacted by foster care through storytelling, empowering volunteers, raising up new resource parents & supporting foster families. Opportunities: Become Resource Parents, Join The Neighborhood, Support My NeighbOR, Curate and Deliver Welcome, Flash & Launch Boxes, Serve the ODHS Staff through Appreciation & Service Projects, Foster Parents Night Out (FPNO).

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

Safe Families supports vulnerable, isolated children and families. Working upstream from foster care, Safe Families creates extended family-like relationships—including a safe home for children to live in temporarily—that give parents space to get their lives back on track until they are in a better place to care for their children again. This network of relationships keeps children from entering the foster care system and, ultimately, helps keep families together. Opportunities: Become a Host Family, Become a Coach or Mentor, Community Groups can create a Circle of Support.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

With Love provides resources that nurture dignity, hope and community for children ages 0-6 impacted by foster care. They focus on tangible goods, community events, and classes to equip and support foster parents. Opportunities: Volunteer to wash, inspect, sort, curate + deliver bags of clothing and supplies for resource families, Contribute to the Holiday Stocking Supply Drive*.

Availability: Small Groups, Individuals, Kids*

Shepherd’s Door, a part of the Portland Rescue Mission, seeks to help women and children find healing through addiction recovery, vocational training, spiritual encouragement, and transitional support in a safe, retreat like setting for one year. This vital work dignifies women who have experienced unimaginable hardship and empowers them to live a new story.

The Family Room seeks to reunite families and strengthen communities. They provide homelike visitation spaces within the community to increase the quality of supervised family visits to increase the likelihood that children living in foster care can successfully be reunited with their birth parents. Opportunities: Volunteer at a Visitation Location, Provide a Monthly Meal for a Family during their Visitation.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

Refugee Care Collective comes alongside refugees as they rebuild their lives in Oregon through identifying gaps in care and connecting community members to those needs, through a collective, coordinated effort. Opportunities: Become a Family or Youth Mentor, Provide Emergency Relief Support, Curate and Distribute Restart Kits*

Availability: Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

Faithful Friends cultivates mentor relationships that inspire growth, resilience and hope. They partner with local churches to find volunteer mentors (individuals, couples or families) and schools and community organizations to identify kids ages 6-9 in need of a mentor. Their goal is early intervention and long term relationship that changes the course of a child’s life. Their vision is to transform generations through the power of friendship. Opportunities: Become a Mentor.

Availability: Individuals

Night Strike exists to develop, demonstrate and sustain love and generosity lived out in the world within groups and individuals. They work to create relational environments that provide and deliver Mobilization, Relief, and Development. Through Night Strike, they provide space under the Burnside Bridge for folks in the houseless community to hang out, enjoy a hot meal, receive a free haircut or shave, have their feet washed, and have their old shoes/clothes/sleeping bags replaced.

Opportunities: Serve with Night Strike

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

Community of Hope is a women's program under the umbrella of CityTeam. It is a 6 month to 1 year recover program for women struggling with addictive behavior and instability.

Opportunities: Make & Enjoy a Monthly Meal with the women and children at Community of Hope, Partner on Projects at Hope House

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids

City Team serves houseless + homeless folks in the city of Portland, their goal is to restore lives and rebuild communities through innovative programs which provide food, shelter, clothing, training, and spiritual transformation.

Opportunities: Become a Mentor, Front Desk Support and Hospitality, Prepare & Serve Nightly Meals.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids

Portland Rescue Mission provides shelter, meals and personal services, Christian discipleship, life skills training and addiction recovery for people of Portland & has been serving our city since 1949. They currently have three locations: The Mission on Burnside, Shepherd’s Door their addictions recovery live in program for women, The Harbor their addictions recovery live in program for men.

Opportunities: Help Re-launch Dinner Service with The Mission, Serve Meals & Mentor with The Harbor or Shepherd’s Door.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids

Going Home 2 provides re-entry services & support to folks coming out of incarceration including transitional housing, classes, mentorship groups, tangible support & relational support between law enforcement and the community. They recently secured a building to open a new resource center just a couple of blocks away from Bridgetown Eastside!

Opportunities: Support Resource Center Build-Out Projects, Curate, Distribute Supplies, Support Upcoming Community & Holiday Events

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids

Pamoja House is a multicultural organization serving the diverse immigrant community of Southwest Portland through education and vocational services. They specialize in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), driver’s education, tutoring, and citizenship classes. In addition to meeting fundamental needs, Pamoja prides itself in community-building and providing personal support to students. Opportunities: Be a Teacher (online, preschool, ESL, homework club, citizenship, drivers ed), Be a Driver, Host a Potluck

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids

Volunteers engage in cleaning and restoring neighborhoods and natural areas, fostering a legacy of environmental care and community involvement.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids