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.
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: Clare Margason
In Other Words Women's Books and Resources is the last surviving non-profit feminist bookstore in the United States. A new Resource Center is designed to network and connect people to local services, classes, and organizations. Our resource center also helps people find rides out of town, roommates & housing, musicians & artists, and much more.
SLS member: Yuko Amano
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. The new Action Center provides visitors with a hands-on educational experience, learning what daily life is like for people around the globe who suffer from hunger, poverty and conflict.
SLS member: Kim Berger, Rachael Levasseur, Le Yu Naing
Multnomah County Special Olympics
Special Olympics Oregon provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.
SLS member: Katie Cox
Portland City Hall, Office of Neighborhood Involvement
Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement promotes a culture of civic engagement by connecting and supporting all Portlanders working together and with government to build inclusive, safe and livable neighborhoods and communities.
SLS member: Adam Holden
Portland Community College, College Assistance Migrant Program
CAMP is designed to support students from migrant and seasonal farm worker backgrounds during their first year in college. The program provides students with both financial assistance and support services, with the goal of preparing them to continue their education at a four-year college or university.
SLS member: Sandra Tellez
Responding to the critical need for safety, Rose Haven welcomes women off the street and addresses each ones' expressed needs by offering life sustaining services and assistance in obtaining them.
SLS member: Hafsa Awo, Faiza Mohamed, Supipi Weerasooriya
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.
Upward Bound, a college preparation program for high school students, is a year-round program designed to improve students' academic and study skills in high school, to develop their career and educational plans, and to help them enter and succeed in higher education.
SLS member: Huy Bui
VOZ Workers' Rights Education Project is a worker-led organization that empowers immigrants and day laborers to gain control over their working conditions.
SLS member: Alex Maymi, Vananh Huynh
Friends of Zenger Farm is a non-profit farm and wetland in outer southeast Portland dedicated to promoting sustainable food systems, environmental stewardship and local economic development through a working urban farm.
SLS member: Megan Jensen
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: Jae Wilson
King School
SLS member: Casey Wang
Ockley Green School
SLS member: Jon Hurst
Vernon School
SLS member: Jesse Fassler
Woodlawn School
SLS member: Nadia Bashar
Marshall Campus
SLS member:
Kelly Elementary School
SLS member: Angie Rowe
Marysville Elementary School
SLS member: Kari Stevens
Whitman Elementary School
SLS member: Jayde Wright
Woodmere Elementary School
SLS member: Will Wright
