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 Expo 2026

Join the movement to make our communities a better place. At the 2026 Volunteer Expo, you can meet in person with nonprofits that need your skills and support.

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Pacific
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Portland, Oregon

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 Campaign. 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 2024, we raised almost $6 million for 2,739 organizations during the Employee Giving Campaign.

16

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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Make a difference in your community. Plant trees. Together.
Friends of Trees inspires people to improve the world around them through a simple solution: planting trees. We recognize that not everyone has equal access to the many benefits of trees and easily-accessed natural areas. Help us work on this issue?
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington prepares girls in K-12 for a lifetime of leadership, adventure and success through programs in STEM, the outdoors, entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Learn more at girlscoutsosw.org.
Our mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold. Our vision is empowered girls and an equitable society.
Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold through direct service and advocacy. Our comprehensive approach to holistic youth development equips participants to navigate gender, economic and social barriers, and to grow up healthy, educated and independent. These positive outcomes are achieved through three core elements: people — trained staff and volunteers who build lasting, mentoring relationships; environment — pro-girl, physically and emotionally safe, where there is high expectations, mutual respect, and support; and programming — research-based, hands-on and minds-on, age-appropriate, meeting the needs of today’s youth.
GLM pairs caring adults with kids most in need of inspiration, kindness and support.

The program received a national designation and evidence rating of Effective (the highest possible rating) by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs in the criminal and juvenile justice and criminal victimization fields. Further, it has achieved status as a mental health intervention on the WA State Inventory of Evidence-Based Practices. 

Become a volunteer mentor today and be part of something great.
Food. Security. Gardening.
Growing Gardens uses the experience of growing food in schools, backyards and correctional facilities to cultivate healthy, equitable communities.