Watch your donation grow
Hands On will leverage your gift to foster
volunteering
By Andy Nelson
Executive Director
As you create your list of nonprofit
organizations to support this holiday season, I hope that will include Hands On Greater Portland. You may be surprised at the
power of your gift.
A donation to Hands On does more
than help us support our organization. It allows us to leverage critical volunteer help for our
community.
How do we do that?
We’re a staff with just seven full-time
employees, yet we make more than 14,000 volunteers connections a year. We help 300 nonprofits connect with volunteers. We create
more than $1 million of volunteer support for the Greater Portland Area.
Every day, nonprofits call us seeking help while
volunteers call us looking to help. Your donation helps us make the connection. You help volunteers feed those
in need, care for elders, read to children, and restore urban green spaces. In other words, you help us fill critical needs in our
community that, frankly, just don’t get filled any other way.
You do something else, too.
You help us create life-long volunteers. I have no idea how to estimate the value here. But it’s
huge. I do know this: sustainable volunteers are essential for the long-term health of our community.
Hands On has roots that go back to the
1950s. We’ve evolved and grown. But we’ve remained true to the original purpose of connecting
volunteers with critical community needs.
Hands On has emerged as the primary organization
in the Portland metro area for connecting volunteers with opportunities that meet their interests and schedules. Simply put,
we’re the only organization of our kind.
Please donate to Hands On this month.
We will leverage your donation in a big way.
Thank you.
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