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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Preventing substance abuse and suicide and building hope every day.
Lines for Life is dedicated to the prevention of substance abuse and suicide and the promotion of mental wellness for all. Lines for Life crisis line call takers offer our life-changing, life-saving message of hope to those who need it most.
Find your story here.
Literary Arts is a community-based nonprofit with a mission to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.
Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman
The Long-Term Care Ombudsman program is an independent state agency whose mission is to protect individual rights, enhance quality of life, improve care, and promote dignity for the Oregonians who live in these facilities.
Together, we grant life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child's wish to life, because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Wishes are usually in one of four categories: Meet, Go, Have, or Be and research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness. Since 1983, Make-A-Wish Oregon has granted the wishes of more than 5,200 children living in Oregon, and Clark County, Washington.
Building a Portland where we all belong.
Maybelle Center is the Community Health Organization working together with neighbors in downtown Portland to reverse the root causes of social isolation.