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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Food. Community. Hope.
Sunshine Division provides immediate food assistance to individuals and families in need across the Portland metro area.
Sunstone Way creates a path to hope and housing.

Sunstone Way partners with participants to unlock a sustainable sense of home by providing shelter and wraparound support services to adults affected by chronic homelessness in Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Our six shelters include congregate, village, and motel shelters, including culturally-centric Weidler and Naito Villages. We help participants address personal and systemic barriers to getting housed with services such as behavioral health, case management, housing navigation, peer support, and ongoing retention services.
The Oregon and SW Washington Chapter of The ALS Association provides support and resources for people living with ALS, their families, and caregivers living in the State of Oregon and the six counties of Southwest Washington.
Since its inception in 2002, our local chapter of The ALS Association is the central source for services and education for people with ALS, their families, caregivers and health care professionals in all of Oregon and the six counties of SW Washington. The progression of ALS varies significantly from one person to another. Responding to each person’s individual needs, our local chapter is available to provide vital services and reliable information through strategic community partnerships.
The Alzheimer's Association leads the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia

Our Pillars

Care and Support: We work to provide care + support for all those affected by Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.

Education and Awareness: Our education programs feature information on topics such as diagnosis, warning signs, communication, living with the disease and caregiving.

Accelerating Global Research: We are the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer's research.
Improved education for all students, higher literacy and graduation rates, and stronger communities.
The Children's Book Bank fills homes and lives with engaging, culturally diverse books because all children deserve to have books of their own. When they do, magical things happen — books ignite curiosity, spark the imagination and open young minds to limitless possibilities.