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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More than 600 meals prepared and distributed every day to people in need.

Our Streets originated in 2020, as a grassroots effort to provide support for communities in need during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. Inspired by the BLM protests’ mission for social justice, Our Streets took to the streets to clean up trash, provide food, and work towards uplifting underserved populations. Today, we operate out of two commercial kitchens to prepare high-quality meals for folks experiencing housing or food insecurity. Volunteers help staff prepare food, package meals, and clean.
Creatively mentoring homeless youth.
p:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art, job training and recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives.
Support our mission: End pancreatic cancer.
Patients will see a brighter future when we can fund more research breakthroughs, advance more treatment options and increase the national dialogue for the disease.
Bridging the gap between medical care and wellness.
Parkinson's Resources of Oregon (PRO) helps patients and caregivers manage Parkinson's disease with helpful programs and services. We are dedicated to meeting the support needs of the Parkinson's community of Oregon and Southern Washington.
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.