Community Partners
Student Leaders for Service maintains partnerships with over 70 community organizations. Each year, 25 members are paired with 25 organizations where they serve five to ten hours each week. In addition to assisting the organization in a specific area, students also act as volunteer coordinators, connecting the university to their community partner.
If you are interested in connecting with one of
our current partner organizations, please e-mail studlead@pdx.edu and
address the e-mail to the student contact listed below.
Cascade AIDS Project helps people put their lives back together; to secure housing, find essential medical care and deal with the countless issues that make the difference between giving up or getting up and going on.
SLS member: Whitney Pfiefer
Community Watershed Stewardship Program
CWSP strives to raise awareness of and improve watershed health by offering community project grants, educational workshops, technical assistance, watershed council organizational development, and informational resources.
SLS member: Megan Jensen, Michelle Simpson
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization
IRCO promotes the integration of refugees, immigrants, and the community at large into a self-sufficient, healthy, and inclusive society.
SLS member: Faiza Mohammed
Mercy
Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping
people build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps
works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and
instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against
nearly impossible odds.
SLS member: Bree Freeman
Outside In addresses the changing needs of homeless youth and other low-income and marginalized peoples as they work toward self-sufficiency and improved health by providing them innovative social, medical, and mental health services and material resources.
SLS member: Stephanie Haas
Steps to Success provides comprehensive social, educational, and employment services to enable job seekers to gain the skills and qualifications necessary to obtain permanent jobs.
EDG:E Program Schools
Educate, Dream, Give: Empower (EDG:E) is a K-12 community-based learning, civic education, and mentoring program housed under the SLS program. PSU students, high school students, and K-8 students work together in an after-school program to identify critical issues in their community and develop service projects that address those issues. EDG:E operates at 10 schools in the Portland Public Schools system: five in N/NE Portland and five in outer SE. All were chosen based on high percentages of minority youth, English language learners, and free/reduced lunch recipients.
Jefferson High School
SLS member: Sarah Simpson
King School
SLS member: Casey Wang
Ockley Green School
SLS member: Elsbeth Rau
Vernon School
SLS member: Jenni Pauletto
Woodlawn School
SLS member: Aprilmarie Petersen
Marshall Campus
SLS member: Melisa Mulford
Lane Middle School
SLS member: Amber Lang
Marysville Elementary School
SLS member: Maria Schauble
Whitman Elementary School
SLS member: Huy Bui
Woodmere Elementary School
SLS member: Chanin Houston
