Volunteer Opportunities

These organizations have volunteer needs. Scroll down to learn more about each one.  If your organization has a volunteer need that you would like to list here, please email us at info@gorgesearch.com.

Scroll down for information about each of these organizations.

American Red Cross
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Friends of the Columbia Gorge
Home at Last (a pet shelter)
Hospice of the Gorge
Lifespan Respite Care
Mt. Hood National Forest
Start Making a Reader Today (SMART)
Students Recycling Used Technology (StRUT)

Need several PART TIME RESPITE CARE PROVIDERS NOW to give family members who care for people with special needs a short break. Can choose to work with people of all ages including children, young adults and elderly with different disabilities and special care needs. Oregon Criminal Background check will be given. Care providers are needed for for all week days and different hours, including weekends in Wasco and Hood River counties.
Please call Community Action Council Office,
Lifespan Respite Care, Ask for Linda 298-5131

Chenowith & Colonel Wright children are looking for reading buddies. Make a new fried by joining the Start Making A Reader Today program The Dalles. It takes just 1 hour per week. You will be paired up with a young boy or girl in K-3rd grade for one-on-one reading. While learning to read at a young age has shown to bring smiles, confidence and big hugs, studies bear out that better readers tend to avoid the pitfalls of drug abuse, teen pregnancy and breaking the law. Call SMART program coordinator Cheryl DeHart? at 993-1025.

Volunteer to help Friends of the Columbia Gorge leading and shepherding hikes in the Gorge, or remove invasive species at Bridal Veil Falls State Park and other locations.  Friends organizes a spring and fall hiking season, with close to 65 hikes and over 1000 hikers, and we are always looking for more leaders and shepherds.  We will have training sessions in the spring, or you can join us on one of our hikes to find out more about the program.  Friends also runs stewardship events and invasive species removal and we need more volunteers.  Events are 3-4 hours, and require enthusiasm, a little muscle, and willingness to get dirty.  We supply tools, gloves, coffee, and snacks.  Please call 503-241-3762 x106 for more information, or see our website at www.gorgefriends.org.

Hospice of The Gorge volunteer training on Saturdays, September 9 and 16, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Training is free-of-charge and will last both days. Lunch and materials are provided. For more information or to register, call Natalie Hassell at Hospice of The Gorge, 866-680-6449.

Volunteer with the Forest Service this summer. We are looking for individuals and groups to help us take on some special projects this year. Volunteer once, or with a long-term project. Examples include helping at our annual fishing clinics, leading interpretive hikes, being a tour guide at Timberline Lodge or Cloud Cap Inn, creating education materials and presenting them at Hood River County schools, helping a ranger leading
education programs, getting involved with our Junior Ranger program, or helping clean-up a campground or trailhead. To get involved in any of these projects or to suggest your own, please contact Cori Behm at
541-352-6002 ext.628 or corilbehm@fs.fed.us We look forward to hearing from you!

Donate your used computers, cell phones and ink cartridges. Students take donated computers and parts and upgrade them for the use in schools. Students involved in the StRUT Program refurbish these donated computers and in turn donate those computers to the school for use in the classrooms. The students also use the donated parts to keep the other computers in the school working.

Volunteer with the American Red Cross. Who are Red Cross volunteers? We are the every day working American, we are the people who help with disasters, single family fires, blood donations, and community safety training. Every day Red Cross volunteers help save lives. We represent our communities, we speak many languages, we are all different ages and ethnicities. Join us and find out how your knowledge, skills, abilities and enthusiasm can be matched with a volunteer experience you will never forget. Each year more than one million Americans donate their time and talent, the local Red Cross needs you to help continue our mission! Please contact the Columbia River District of the American Red Cross, (541) 386-6000. Together, we can save a life.

Landscaper/Gardener – Work on a landscaping project in front of the shelter. (We have a plan, but if you have a better idea we are willing to go with it.)

Carpenter/Handyman – Install outdoor cat cage on the south side of the shelter. We have the enclosure it needs to be put together and tweaked just a little to fit the area.

Gardener/Yard work – Ongoing lawn and yard care around the shelter.

Shelter shopper - We need someone who likes to shop who will take our list and go shopping.

Photo copier – Someone to take forms we need more copies of to a copy place once every two weeks and make copies and replenish stock.

http://www.homeatlasths.org/

Are you qualified? Can you burp the alphabet? Have you ever started a pillow fight? Do you know what a nuggie is? Have you ever laughed so hard milk shot out of your nose? Eaten anything for money? Gotten cooties? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you may have what it takes to be a Big Brother or Big Sister. Call 1-800-575-1175 to learn how volunteering just a few hours a month can make a difference in the life of a child, and make you feel like a kid again.