Volunteer Recruitment

Every once in a while, we need to go out and search for volunteers who have slightly more honed techical or people skills (volunteer Interns) or who can fill in empty spaces in the Build or Adoption Programs. Use the lists below to get the word out, and add as you find more places that would advertise for us!

Volunteer Interns

No research needed

• Post on Idealist.org - Shawn has our passwords
• Post with Hands On Portland - Shawn has our passwords
• Post on CNRG (must be a member of the list to post)
• Contact Heald College for office internships especially - personal contacts
• Clackamas High School: Jerry Dawson
• Portland Community College - erecruitment
• PCC workforce network: Drew Spence
• Youth Employment Institute for young builders
• Steps to Success - personal contacts
• Clackamas County Volunteer Connections - personal contact: Jean
• Siletz Indian Tribe
• Thomas Edison H.S.
• Reed - [J. Fix]
• SMS
• AARP

Research needed/wanted

• Contact PSU to see where/how to post
• Contact Heald College for office internships especially - personal contacts
• Clackamas Community College
• MESD?

Adoption and Build Program Volunteers

• Local Community Development Centers would be good places to send fliers advertising our main programs, especially during lulls in volunteer attendance (right after school lets out for the summer and after it's back in session after summer). See http://www.cdnportland.org/cdc_guide.html for a good list of community centers.

• Portland Public Schools
• PSU
• Portland Youth Builders (Steve)
• Housing Authority of Portland
  • 135 SW Ash 97204 503.802.8300 http://www.hapdx.org/about/contact.html
  • Margaret Van Vliet Deputy Exec. Director: Dir. of Public Housing Lucia Clausen, Dir. of Resident Services Veronica Sherman King, Manager of Policy and planning Rachel Duke
  • Public Housing Administration 1605 NE 45th Ave. Portland, OR 97213 503.288.5750
  • GOALPOST (computer education: build prog. vol.s) 6443 N. Lombard St. Portland, OR 97203 503.240.5600
• Adult and Family Services: See this link for a huge list of phone numbers for all the district/county offices.
• Outside In (builders and interns): Employment Resource Center helps kids get job experience. Anne Blumenauer, Employment Resource Center 503-535-3888 anneb@outsidein.org
• New Avenues for Youth 1220 SW Columbia 97201 503-224-4339 apratt@newavenues.org
• Job Center at Mount Hood Community College
• Craigslist
• Friendly House
  • Community Services (services for those transitioning from homelessness - adoption) 1808 NW Irving Street 97209 503-228-4335 Kristin Wollen - Community Services Director kwollen@friendlyhouseinc.org
  • Senior Services 2617 NW Savier St 97210 503-228-4391 Grace Hague- Senior Program Director (503) 224-2640 ghague@friendlyhouseinc.org
• Senior Centers
  • PSU's Senior Adult Learning Center: 506 SW Mill Street, Room 470H 97207 503-725-4739
  • PSU's Retired Associates of Portland State (seniors' meeting group): P.O. Box 751 97207-0751
  • Adult Placement Network (helps seniors find housing): 8826 SE 28th Place Milwaukie, OR 97222 (503) 659-2029
  • Peninsula Senior Center
  • Search for senior centers
• Morrison Child and Family Services
• Beehive feedback@one-economy.com We just need to adjust our listing a little so it's more accurate.
• Food Banks
  • Loaves and Fishes
  • Fish Emergency Services
• Join
• One Stops
• Community Colleges
• Local Tech Colleges: ITT, Heald
• Public Libraries
• Neighborhood Associations and Coalitions Go to http://www.portlandonline.com/planning/index.cfm?c=30426 to download a "Citywide Neighborhood Association Map (3.1 MB)"
  • 8 Neighborhood Coalitions
  • Like, a billion individual neighborhood associations can be found at the above URL
• Urban League of Portland community center and resource
  • Senior Center contact D'Norgia Price, Director of Adult and Senior Services at (503) 280-2638
  • Housing help Lovell Jones, Facilities Manager at (503) 280-2600
• Churches
• Wax (new teen community center) 5101 N Interstate Ave. 283-9093
• Community Centers (PDX Parks and Rec) General Contact There are about 15 community centers in Portland, so we should contact them to see if there's someone who oversees all of them in some way.
• Boys and Girls Club -- teen evenings
• SEI (NE Portland mentoring/trianing center) 3920 North Kerby Avenue Portland, OR 97227-1255 Main Switchboard (503) 249-1721 x269 Online contact form