This month's volunteer opportunities and donation needs

Ways to Get Involved in June!

All opportunities to volunteer and donate things we need, in one convenient place

Our monthly digest of all the ways to engage is here! Bring a dish to an emergency shelter, donate items that shelter and affordable housing residents need, help fill our shelter pantries, and more. We’d love you to work alongside us to support and build our community. It takes a village to house a city.

Volunteer Activities

Ongoing: Drive for Us!

Drive a regular shift between our shelters in Hazelwood and Rockwood, or sign up to be on call. 🚗 Sign Up!

Ongoing: Become a Large Meal Provider
Get your civic group or religious organization together to make regular meals for a shelter – 40, 60, or 120 people at once! 💖 Contact Us

June 5: Potluck Dinner at Lilac Meadows Family Shelter
Kick off Pride Month by bringing a homemade dish to our drop-off potluck dinner at Lilac Meadows family shelter. 🌈 Sign Up!

June 11: Potluck Dinner at The Chestnut Tree Inn
Prepare and deliver a dish (or two!) to our drop-off potluck dinner at The Chestnut Tree Inn shelter. 🥙 Sign Up!

June 19: Potluck Dinner at Gresham Women’s Shelter
Honor Juneteenth by cooking a dish for this drop-off potluck dinner at Gresham Women’s Shelter. 🍲 Sign Up!

Things We Need This Month

Supplies for Moving into Affordable Housing
Our resident services team is looking for kids’ bikes and helmets, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items, baby diapers, and more for families moving into affordable housing. 🚲 Shop Wish List!

Chestnut Tree Inn Shelter
We’re looking for storage bins, hair care products, shelf-stable snacks, and more for folks at Chestnut Tree Inn shelter. 🥐 Shop Wish List!

Lilac Meadows Family Shelter
Hair care products, bedding, and snacks are on the top of the list this month for our shelter for families with children. 🛏️ Shop Wish List!

Gresham Women’s Shelter
We’re looking for summer sandals, shelf-stable snacks, and laundry supplies this month at our shelter for folks identifying as women, nonbinary, and genderqueer. 🧴 Shop Wish List!

Restock Shelter Pantries
Send us the ingredients we need for staff and volunteers to cook for residents at our three shelters. 🍳 Shop Wish List!

We protect the locations of our shelters as a matter of privacy and safety for residents, and we count on our volunteers to maintain this confidentiality. If you sign up to cook for a potluck, we’ll email you specific delivery instructions. Please do not share the location of our shelters with anyone who is not a Human Solutions volunteer.

Want to donate items offline or chat with us about volunteering? Email volunteer@humansolutions.org and we’ll get started.