Coronavirus in Oregon: How you can help nonprofits serving vulnerable people

The following nonprofit organizations could use your donations of money and time to help vulnerable populations during the coronavirus crisis in Oregon. Do you represent an Oregon-based nonprofit organization that should be added? Fill out our form here.

FEED THE HUNGRY

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Volunteers Jim and Pat Culpepper prepare to deliver meals to people through Meals on Wheels People.Samantha Swindler

Clackamas Service Center: Delivering groceries to housed and unhoused community members at low-to-no income. Also serving to-go meals six days a week. Donate: cscoregon.org

Friendly House: Donations help low-income families and needy seniors meet material needs. Give here: securepayment.link/friendlyhouseinc/

Blanchet House: Now serving to-go meals, Northwest Portland’s Blanchet House is seeing unprecedented demand. Donate and learn about volunteer opportunities at blanchethouse.org/donate

Oregon Food Bank: NIKE President & CEO John Donahoe and his wife, Eileen Donahoe, pledged $1 million to Oregon Food Bank and hope to inspire others to collectively match their giving through Oregon Food Bank’s #EmergeStronger Community Challenge. Donate at give.oregonfoodbank.org

SnowCap Community Charities Emergency Food Pantry: Serves Multnomah County residents living east of Southeast 82nd Avenue. May occasionally have pet food. Email: info@snowcap.org or donate at snowcap.org/services.html.

Sunshine Division Food Pantry: Serving city of Portland. Donations can be made by phone, email or on the website. sunshinedivision.org/get-help.

United Way: United Way’s Safety Net mobilizes nonprofits across Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington and Clark counties to help individuals and families meet basic needs. Donate at unitedway-pdx.org

Northeast Emergency Food Program: The Portland-area branch of Ecumenical Ministries is Helping to meet the dramatically increased need for food in a time of pandemic and economic collapse. Donate here emoregon.org/donate/

Saint Francis Dining Hall: The agency is raising money to continue its meal programs, clothing and shelter resources. Visit the website, stfrancispdx.org/give

Store to Door: Provides a grocery shopping and delivery service for homebound seniors. Donate here, storetodooroforegon.org/donate/

Living Hope Ministries Douglas County: Donations go to helping secure food for the needy and improve access for the handicapped. Give here: ndcfoodproject.org/become-a-donor

Sisters of the Road: Donations will help purchase food, ingredients, and to-go box supplies to serve nourishing and healthy meals to those surviving outside. Donate: donate.sistersoftheroad.org/give

Lift Up (Northwest and downtown Portland): Connecting vulnerable neighbors with foods that meets their specific needs. Donate: lifturbanportland.org

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Portland Street Medicine is a coalition of volunteer medical providers, social workers, care managers and lay people dedicated to providing quality medical care to Portlanders who are facing unstable housing or are sleeping on the streets.Randy L. Rasmussen/For The Oregonian/OregonLive

HELP PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS

Maybelle Center for Community (formerly the Macdonald Center): Supporting residents and community members throughout the Old Town neighborhood. Donation: maybellecenter.org/give/

Northwest Pilot Project: Placing homeless seniors into housing and preventing very-low income seniors from becoming homeless. Donations: nwpilotproject.org/donate/

Transition Projects, Inc.: The agency will continue to serve participants in shelters and will help house vulnerable people. Donate: https://www.tprojects.org/donate/form.html

Portland Street Medicine takes health care to people experiencing homelessness. Donate at portlandstreetmedicine.org/donate

Volunteer in Multnomah County and the City of Portland. Complete a volunteer interest form here and someone from Multnomah County will contact you as opportunities are identified. Currently the greatest need is for volunteers to help in shelters.

Impact Northwest: This nonprofit’s mission is to prevent homelessness. Donate at impactnw.org/how-to-help/

Union Gospel Mission: Serving to-go meals and providing search and rescue outreach to deliver food and other essential services. Donate at ugmportland.org

Outside In: Provides medical, mental health care, and social services to people experiencing homelessness and poverty. Donate at: outsidein.org/covid-19-response-donation-form/

NeighborImpact: The Redmond-area agency provides food, winter warming shelters, homeless outreach and other services in Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties and for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Donate at neighborimpact.org/give-help/

Portland Rescue Mission: Provides emergency food, shelter, safety and recovery services to those struggling with homelessness. Donate at portlandrescuemission.org

Catholic Charities of Oregon: Providing essential, life-saving services and supporting vulnerable Oregonians with housing, financial empowerment, mental health and counseling services, pregnancy and parenting support, and legal services. Donate here www.classy.org/give/138659

Street Roots: Creating income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness by producing a newspaper and other media. streetroots.org/

Central City Concern: Donations help ensure staff throughout all health and housing facilities have protective equipment, clients have food, housing and technology for remote healthcare if isolated. Staff can continue to sanitize buildings. Donations can be made here: centralcityconcern.org/donate/funds/

Neighborhood House: The agency is modifying and adapting to meet the current needs of the community due to COVID-19. Financial support will allow for expanded services that provide food, housing, education, and community to those who need it in Portland, nhpdx.org

Human Solutions: The agency needs funds to help support work in the community or donation of meals and needed items such as diapers, baby wipes, and hygiene items. Donations help vulnerable families and individuals during this time, humansolutions.org/giving/

Family Promise of Tualatin Valley: The agency has had to adjust its shelter model due to COVID-19 and will now place families in motels. Donations will help with this expense, familypromiseoftv.org/donate

We Care Corvallis: Funds go to help with community members needing assistance with rent and utilities in Benton County. Donation: wecarecorvallis.org/how-to-help-1

Northwest Pilot Project: Money raised goes to support placing homeless seniors into housing and preventing very-low income seniors from becoming homeless. Donations, nwpilotproject.org/donate

HEALTH SERVICES

CODA: Dedicated to treating people whose health and quality of life are compromised by alcohol and drugs. Donations would help cover fixed costs including leases and personnel, while also helping take on new costs associated with telemedicine technology offered to patients as an alternative to in-person care. Donate here: codainc.org/donate/

Red Cross: Blood donations in Oregon and across the country have fallen dramatically in the time of coronavirus. Find out how to donate blood at https://www.redcrossblood.org

Multnomah County: The Joint Volunteer Information Center of Multnomah County is seeking donations of toilet paper, facial tissue, thermometers and other items. Please fill out this form.

Store to Door: Provides grocery shopping and delivery services for homebound seniors and adults with disabilities. Donations support program costs, including materials to keep volunteer shoppers and drivers safe donate.firstgiving.com

Luke-Dorf: The non-profit offers clinical care, peer support programs, residential treatment and supportive housing, to people with persistent mental health experiences. Donate: luke-dorf.org

Medical Teams International: Donation will go to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by funding emergency field hospitals and equipping medical professionals with protective gear and other life-saving supplies. Donate here: give.medicalteams.org/give

CHILDREN AND AT RISK YOUTH

Trillium Family Services: The agency that provides full spectrum mental health services to children and families across Oregon is requesting donations to help continue operations of two residential campuses in Portland and Corvallis as well as outpatient services to families at home during this time. Donate: trilliumfamily.org/suppott-trillium/donate/

Made to Thrive, Hermiston: Funds secure food, household essentials and other items for low-income, foster system-involved, and justice system-involved youth and their families in Umatilla and Morrow counties while schools are closed. Donations, www.madetothrive.org/donate

Kairos: Based in Grants Pass, the agency provides mental health services to at-risk youth. Donate at kairosnw.org

Children’s Center: The agency continues to respond to children with urgent safety concerns who are experiencing suspected physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Donations: childrenscenter.givecloud.co

Every Child Oregon: Providing for specific needs shared by foster families or youth. Financial contributions help purchase gift cards for those in need. Donate: everychildoregon.org/donate

New Avenues for Youth: Donations support ongoing efforts to address critical needs for this population through virtual case management services, drop-in services to meet immediate and urgent needs. Donate here: newavenues.ejoinme.org/MyPages/NewAvenuesCOVID19

Team First Book Portland: Provides new books and educational material to area children in need. Donate here: support.firstbook.org

Candlelighters: Provide financial assistance to families with children experiencing cancer who may be already struggling due to healthcare costs, travel requirements, and often a parent having to quit work to be there for child’s hospital treatments and needs. Donate here: donorbox.org/covid-19-giving

WORKER RELIEF

Oregon Energy Fund: The statewide agency helps Oregonians who are struggling to pay household energy bills in the wake of unemployment and school closures. Donate at: oregonenergyfund.org/relief

Family Meal: The nonprofit based in Portland provides financial relief to food industry and agricultural workers and their families. Donate at www.familymealpdx.org

Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: Provides emergency food and grants to help pay rent or utilities for underserved communities in Oregon and southwest Washington. Donate at irco.org/support

Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Provides emergency food and grants to help pay rent or utilities. Donate at svdppdx.org/a150/donate

ANIMAL SHELTERS AND SERVICES

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The Darling Room at the Oregon Humane Society. The Oregonian/OregonLive/StaffLC- The Oregonian

DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital: Special need help for low-income owners of animal patients and the Velvet Assistance Fund which will help those impacted by COVID-19. Donations: donate.dovelewis.org/

Portland Animal Welfare Team: Provides free veterinary services and a pet food/supply bank to those experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty. Donations: pawteam.z2systems.com

Cat Adoption Team (CAT) Cat Food Bank: Serving senior, and homebound residents in Washington County in partnership with Meals on Wheels. Donate food at the Sherwood shelter 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Monetary donations via website. contactus@catadoptionteam.org/ or visit catadoptionteam.org/services.

FIDO: Accepting new, unopened bags of pet food and monetary donations. Questions Email: fidofoodbank@gmail.com. Donate money at fidoanimeals.org.

The Oregon Humane Society: The agency reports that the need to rescue homeless, neglected and abused pets continues. Donate at oregonhumane.org/donate.

The Pongo Fund: The Oregon charity has expanded emergency pet food services due to COVID-19 pandemic. Donate at thepongofund.org.

ARTS ORGANIZATIONS

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

- Open to the sky, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre seats 1,200 people. Featured in the photo is the 2017 set and ensemble in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Kim Budd, Oregon Shakespeare FestivalKim Budd, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Regional Arts & Culture Council: The agency has created a new fund to provide financial relief to Portland area creative professionals and the region’s cultural workforce. Donate: artsimpactfund.racc.org

Lan Su Chinese Garden: The Portland garden has closed to the public and laid off staff, leaving only a few to maintain the garden. Help support the garden at lansugarden.org.

Oregon Children’s Theater: The Oregon Children’s Theater has organized an emergency drive in hopes of saving its summer performances at octc.org.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The festival has had to lay off staff and cancel all performances through Sept. 6. It aims to return Sept. 8. Donate at osfashland.org

Oregon Symphony: The Oregon Symphony has canceled performances through May 11, furloughed musicians and laid off staff but plans to return for the 2020-21 season. Donate at orsymphony.org.

Portland Japanese Garden: Closed indefinitely, the Portland Japanese Garden has laid off staff, leaving a few to maintain the garden. Help support the garden at japanesegarden.org/donate-now.

PDX Artist Relief: Subashini Ganesan, Portland’s creative laureate, and Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet laureate, have launched an emergency relief fund for artists in the Portland area. Donate at pdxartistrelief.com.

Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts: Provides scholarships to children’s summer theatre camps in the Medford area. Donate at: oregonconservatory.org

Architectural Heritage Center: Donations will help the center create digital content to educate the community about the built environment during a time of staff reduction. Donate: visitahc.org/donate/

Hollywood Theatre: Funds will help the theatre maintain its historic building as well as the collection at Movie Madness while both facilities are closed to the public. Donate: hollywoodtheatre.org/about/support-us/

— Rosemarie Stein, events@oregonian.com

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