Volunteer Expo

Find Your Way to Give and Give Back

The Standard’s Volunteer Expo is Oregon’s largest gathering of nonprofits, volunteers and donors. Every fall, the Expo brings people together with organizations in one place to discover volunteer service and donation opportunities. The free event helps members of our community discover opportunities that fit their skills and interests.

Volunteer Opportunities All Year Long

Don’t wait until the next expo to get involved. Opportunities to give back to the Portland-metro community are available year-round. Whether you're looking to volunteer once or long term, you can find the right match for your talents and interests.

Participating organizations represent the arts, culture, humanities, the environment, animal welfare, health, human services and more.

Interviews With Participants

Watch these interviews with nonprofits that were at this year's Volunteer Expo.

Make an Impact

The Volunteer Expo is a pillar of The Standard's Employee Giving 365. This year-round initiative encourages employees to donate to support schools and nonprofit organizations.

The Standard and our parent organization Meiji Yasuda double match employee contributions. In 2025, we raised $6.4 million for 2,630 organizations during our Employee Giving 365.

17

Years we’ve connected volunteers with nonprofits at the Volunteer Expo
100+

Number of local nonprofits we host and support at the event

Find Your Community

“The Volunteer Expo allows so many more people to get exposed to the nonprofits in our community and find ways to get into volunteer service and find their community.”
Brandi Tuck
Executive Director, Path Home

Search Directory of Nonprofits

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Strong families. Safe communities. A just society.
PSJ is Oregon's leading criminal justice reform organization. We advance reforms that reduce incarceration, advance racial justice, and address the needs of crime survivors, people convicted of crime, and the families of both.
Building dignity, restoring power and promoting autonomy.
Path Home's mission is to empower homeless families with children to get back into housing — and stay there.
Evolving Out Loud

We are committed to sharing differing perspectives of jazz. We will create an environment in which any individual will feel welcomed, respected, supported and valued to fully participate in PDX Jazz artistic and educational programming. This will be achieved by incubating and presenting relevant and innovative programming experiences that align with diverse regional, social, cultural, and economic values and demographics. Our internal team will be reflective of the community we wish to engage.
Creating art. Expanding possibility.
PHAME is a fine and performing arts academy serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Offering three 10-week terms of arts-based classes each year, as well as a rigorous performance program, PHAME empowers students to learn new skills, take artistic risks and build lasting relationships with people who share their experience of having a disability. PHAME is built upon the belief that art is for everyone, and that our community is stronger when it champions opportunities for all. With that in mind, PHAME brings passion, joy, and rigor to arts education and performance. PHAME offers both online and in-person class options.
Care. No matter what.
Founded in 1963, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette (PPCW), an affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation, has grown from a volunteer-run clinic in Portland to the largest reproductive health care organization in Oregon and SW Washington.