Hands On works with hundreds of community-based programs to provide volunteers with a variety of meaningful opportunities for service and leadership.

Here are a just a few comments from Hands On Community Partners:

"We posted several SMART projects on the Hands On website; it allowed us to connect with people who were already interested in our mission - but might not have known about our program. Hands On provided a forum for us to connect with these people and get them involved."

-Lesley Eisele, SMART (Start Making A Reader Today)

"I was having trouble finding members in the Portland Community to participate in our Program Committees. With the help of the new referral system at Hands On we were able to recruit volunteers to sit on these committees. I look forward to using this system to recruit volunteers for our upcoming construction project. I know it will be very helpful."

-Jennifer Twyman, Portland Habitat Humanity

"I used the NetWorks Program of Hands On's new volunteer recruitment system to post opportunities for ongoing volunteers at two after-school programs. I began getting responses almost immediately and ended up with two great, dependable volunteers to help out with the programs."

-Sean Wade, Human Solutions

"As a relatively new user of your postings, I just wanted to let you know we had nearly instant results! I've already been contacted by two volunteers . . I had no idea how effective a tool Hands On could be."

-Darr Durham, 1000 Friends of Oregon

"Saturday was just fantastic. A great deal was accomplished . . . We couldn't have asked for a more positive, supportive group of people to help us. THANKS to you for your organization and strong support of our project."

-Carole Biskar, Principal, Tualatin Elementary School

"We've gotten a great response to our listing for volunteers . . . We now have all the volunteers we can accept for this position."

-Heather Jones, Development Coordinator, Friendly House

The numbers speak for themselves:

• Together we connected over 1864 community members with opportunities to volunteer through our referral opportunities.
• Through Hands On's CommunityWorks and TeamWorks programs, more than 5,993 volunteers were connected with projects.
• Our BusinessCares program connected more than 1000 corporate employee volunteers with opportunities to volunteer.
• Finally, our Comcast Cares Day brought more than 2,000 volunteers to schools in the metro area.

More than 12,000 volunteers were connected to Hands On Community Partners in 2006. What an amazing accomplishment - and we couldn't have done it without fantastic Community Partners!

For questions about Hands On Greater Portland Partner Services, please contact Brenden Butler, Program Manager, brenden@handsonportland.org, or Sarah Baum, Partner Services Coordinator, at sarah@handsonportland.org.