September Focus on...
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Be a driver!

East Multnomah County Volunteer Drivers

►Ride Connection

Live in East Multnomah County? Want to make a difference in the life of an older adult or person with a disability? Love to drive? Ride Connection, a community non-profit working to serve the transportation needs of older adults and people with disabilities is currently seeking volunteer drivers in the East Multnomah County area.

 

Going somewhere in your car? Be a One-way Driver!

► Ride Connection

Tuesdays, 5:00-7:45pm (Multnomah County)

Going somewhere in your car? Why not offer a one way ride to older adults and those with disabilities who are unable to drive and access public transportation? You can offer a ride during various times throughout the day, you determine your own availability, and you give the gift of mobility to an older adult or someone with a disability. Join our pool of volunteer drivers today!

 

Grocery Delivery Drivers Needed

► Store to Door

Do you have a couple hours a week and a good driving record? Our local seniors and people with disabilities need your help to bring groceries into their home and brighten their day on either Wednesday or Thursday late mornings.

 

Project Linkage Driver
► Metropolitan Family Service

Imagine your life without the ability to drive where you need to go. Now imagine that you also cannot stand or walk well enough to use public transportation. What is the most important thing you can do to help a senior in your community? Volunteer to drive. A huge loss of independence occurs when an older adult can no longer drive, or makes the decision to give it up before an accident occurs.

 

Drivers Needed

► Impact Northwest

Do you have some free time and a good driving record? Help Portland Impact keep our community’s seniors healthy, happy and independent by volunteering to be a driver. Drivers are needed to bring seniors to doctors appointments, grocery shopping and other errands around town. If you have an hour or two a week to spare, you can make a difference in the lives of our community’s seniors.

 

Drivers Needed for Healthy Start Dad's Group

► Impact Northwest

The Healthy Start program at Impact NW is searching for volunteers to help families get to their Father-Child Interaction Groups to support Early Childhood Education. We would like 2 drivers for each group to help transport families to and from classes.

 

DRIVERS: Voodoo Doughnut Mobile

► Oregon Outreach/Urban Opportunities

Urban Opportunities, a job-readiness and placement program for area at-risk youth (ages 14-20) has partnered with Voodoo Doughnut and created a mobile doughnut truck that employs youth who have graduated from our program. (Think ice-cream truck but with Voodoo Doughnuts!). We need very good drivers who have a very good driving record and can pass a background check as you will be working with youth. We need people who can commit to driving 1-2 shifts a week for six months.

 

Road to Recovery drivers needed!

► American Cancer Society

For many cancer patients, getting to and from their treatments is their greatest barrier to beating cancer. But you can help. The American Cancer Society and Ride Connection are working together to provide the Road to Recovery program in the Portland Metro Area. Volunteers for the Road to Recovery program help by driving patients to and from their scheduled treatments.

 

Social Service Drivers Assistant

► The Salvation Army

The Gresham Corps Social Service Department needs some help Tuesday and Thursday with the food pick-ups. This food from these pick-ups helps to provide much needed food items to low income families and individuals in the Gresham area.

 

Transportation Driver

► American Red Cross

Make an immediate impact in someone's life by volunteering to drive with the American Red Cross. Using our vehicles, you will provide door-to-door service for seniors and people with disabilities. This free service is offered in Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, and Tigard areas. This program runs 5 days a week - Monday through Friday.

 

Volunteer Drivers

► Ride Connection

Ride Connection, a local non-profit transportation provider, is sending out an S.O.S. for volunteer drivers who are available to drive older adults and/or people with disabilities to requested destinations such as medical appointments. Volunteer drivers may serve in one area or throughout the tri-county area either in the volunteer's own vehicle with mileage reimbursement or in a company vehicle.

 

Referrals: RideOn - Late Night Drivers Wanted!

► RideOn Portland

Two Wednesdays per month, 5:30-7:30pm (Washington County)

Become a part of Portland's alternative to drinking and driving. RideOn provides individuals with transportation home in their own vehicles. Here's how it works: An impaired driver calls RideOn. We dispatch two volunteers to the caller's location. One volunteer drives the caller home in the caller's own vehicle. The second volunteer follows in a RideOn vehicle. Friends and couples are encouraged to volunteer together!

RideOn: Volunteer Drivers & Dispatchers Needed

►  RideOn Portland

RideOn is 501(c)3 non profit dedicated to reducing drinking and driving rates in Portland by provided a designated driver service. RideOn Portland has developed a progressive approach towards the prevention of drunk driving by driving individuals home in their own car. Bicyclists, pedestrians, motorist, we are all in this together – RideOn’s aim is to keep us all safe.

 

Cherry Blossom-Meals-On-Wheels Drivers Needed!!!

► Loaves and Fishes

The Cherry Blossom Loaves & Fishes Center located in SE Portland at 740 SE 106th Avenue, Portland, OR 97216 is in need of drivers to deliver Meals-On-Wheels.
Pick-up meals between 10 and 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Deliver once a week or once a month. Deliveries take about an hour and a half. We can reimburse you .40 per mile to assist in fuel costs.

 

Support Public Transit & Bikes!

RideWise Ride Ambassador

► Ride Connection

RideWise is a collaborative effort between TriMet and Ride Connection to promote the independent travel of older adults and people with disabilities by providing access to information, training and support. Ride Ambassabors share their knowledge about TriMet bus and light rail with a senior and/or person with a disability.

 

Volunteer Orientation: Bike Safety Education Community Ride Volunteer

► Bicycle Transportation Alliance

Ride along with elementary and middle school kids as chaperones on practice rides in neighborhoods around the schools. On-the-job training is provided. If you'd like to volunteer, plan to attend the Bike Safety Education orientation and organizing party on September 23.

 

Hillsboro Tour de Parks Bike Ride
► Washington County Bicycle Transportation Coalition

The Hillsboro Tour de Parks, put on by the WashCoBTC, is a family-oriented bike ride through different parks in Hillsboro. The entire route has been designed for optimum comfort and includes bike lanes on Hillsboro’s city busy streets, residential streets, bike paths, and open road. We will be emphasizing bicyclist awareness and rules of the road. We have many opportunities to volunteer for this event and we need your help! Volunteers

 

Deliver Meals for Loaves & Fishes... by Bike!

► Loaves and Fishes

Created to reduce the agency's carbon footprint and to provide opportunities for additional volunteers, the "Meals On Two Wheels" program will allow cyclists to deliver Meals-On-Wheels throughout the Metro area. Bicycle routes have been created at 20 of the agency's 31 meal sites and we are currently in the process of acquiring special trailers to allow cyclists to transport the meals. We'll work around your schedule; just let us know you're interested!

Create-a-Commuter Workshop Support

► Community Cycling Center

At the Community Cycling Center, we believe that a bicycle is a tool for empowerment and a vehicle for change. The Create a Commuter program is a groundbreaking program that offers low-income adults a flexible solution to meet their transportation needs, by providing them with a commuter bike complete with lights, a lock, a helmet, a rack, tools and all the other accessories after they complete five hours of safe commuting and bike maintenance training. We're looking for volunteers to provide classroom and group ride support to paid instructors during adult create a commuter workshops.

 

Bikes For Kids

► Community Cycling Center

One Saturday per month, 12:30-3:30pm (Multnomah County)

Come help the Community Cycling Center tear down and clean (or recycle) donated bikes and bike parts! (No mechanical experience is required.) The Center mechanics will use their magic to turn these reclaimed parts into "new" bikes for kids and commuters of all ages.

 

Bike Commute Challenge After-party and Awards

► Bicycle Transportation Alliance

Be a part of one the biggest bike parties of the year as we celebrate everyone who commuted by bike during the BTA's Bike Commute Challenge. Volunteers will help with set-up, greeting, serving, and clean-up. Free pizza for all!

 

Kerr Bikes Volunteer Assistant

► Albertina Kerr Centers

Assist staff running the Kerr Bikes kiosk, a bike and surrey rental shop located on the Tom McCall Waterfront. All proceeds from this fun venture directly benefit the work of Albertina Kerr Centers. Volunteers are needed for at least one (1), four-hour shift per week minimum between the hours of 10am - 8pm (weekdays) and 9am - 9pm (weekends.) Volunteers interested in assisting daily are encouraged to apply.

Surrey Sewer for Kerr Bikes

► Albertina Kerr Centers

Kerr Bikes, a bike and surrey rental shop located on the Tom McCall Waterfront is in need of your sewing skills. Surrey rentals have begun to feel the wear and tear of the summer and the canvas tops are in need of patching and sewing. This is an on-going need that can be developed in to further sewing projects as desired by the volunteer and staff. And you can sew from home!

Transportation Advocacy for Older Adults & Those with Disabilities

Ride Connection: Giving the Gift of Mobility
 

Ride Connection is a non-profit, community service organization established to link accessible, responsive transportation with community needs. It serves those without viable transportation alternatives throughout Clackamas, Multnomah, & Washington counties, and thus helps to keep older adults and people with disabilities independent and mobile. www.rideconnection.org

 

Want to help create independence and community connections through the gift of mobility? Ride Connection is looking for multiple volunteer positions, from behind the scenes strategic planning, to ride-along story tellers, to transportation advocates. Find an opportunity below!

 

Advocacy/Public Policy Intern
This volunteer position involves advocacy activities, as well as research and hands-on learning experience (ride-along, customer service center shadowing, and travel training).
 

Capture the Words! Wordsmiths wanted

►Ride Connection

Go on Ride Connection ride-alongs with older adults and people with disabilities. Capture in words what the transportation service and the volunteer drivers mean to the Ride Connection customers.

 

Enjoy Talking? Make Calls in the name of Mobility!

► Ride Connection

Dial for Rides as a donation procurement volunteer specialist. If you love talking to people, especially when you are talking about a great cause then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

 

Get Strategic! Join Ride Connection's Fund Development Committee

► Ride Connection

Assist the Board of Directors & staff with the successful implementation of a fundraising master plan.

 

Outreach Assistant
► Ride Connection

Help support Ride Connection by working closely with staff, customers, transportation & community partners to connect with a wide range of outreach, marketing & volunteer recruitment goals.

 

Raiser's Edge Volunteer Assistant

► Ride Connection

Support the Ride Connection's data management. This would be an outstanding opportunity to learn all about Raiser's Edge as well as to become knowledgeable about nonprofit management.

 

Strategic Planning Facilitator

► Ride Connection

The Strategic Planning Facilitator develops a strategic plan for Ride Connection. Identify key stakeholders, assess which stakeholders should be interviewed, and interview prior to the planning process.

 

Volunteer Receptionist

► Ride Connection

In addition to answering phones, greeting customers and helping staff at the front desk, volunteers assist the Office Administrator and agency staff with various projects such as callbacks, data entry, document creation and other tasks.

 

Grocery Order Takers Needed

► Store to Door

We need help in our office on NW 21st & Raleigh on Tuesdays calling our clients each week to check in and take their grocery orders. Since most of our clients are homebound, this might be one of the few calls they get and they will look forward to hearing from you.