Volunteer With SAGE

We love volunteers, student projects, and pro bono help.

We welcome volunteers for a few hours or long-term commitments.

SAGE volunteer opportunities run the gamut from greeting people at events, to hosting a discussion group, to writing stories about people giving forward, to working on special projects. We also offer additional opportunities to engage through our Legacy Fellowship, Teams, and Leaders Action Board. Plus, SAGE highlights direct pathways to volunteer with our partners.

We also work with volunteers to customize service and research opportunities that leverage your skills and interests. This is often the case with more long-term engagements such as internships, externships, and class projects.

Click here to review our volunteer promises and expectations.

See below for some examples of ways you can get involved with SAGE. We offer activities that you can do from home, by phone, online, and in our office too.

Looking for more ideas? Explore opportunities nationwide on Volunteer Match, Hands On Greater Portland, and Volunteer Central Oregon.

Ways To Volunteer With SAGE

Serve as a SAGE Greeter

Welcome people to our community! Join our SAGE Greeters.

Do you like meeting new people and welcoming them to community events? Then you will enjoy serving as a SAGE Greeter. We host events throughout the year to inspire, support and connect people to give forward. As one of our Greeters, you serve as the initial face of SAGE by welcoming guests to our events, helping them feel included, and thanking them for attending. Greeters help us with all our events - in person, online, and hybrid too.

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Serve as a SAGE Community Connector

Be a connector for your community! Join us as a SAGE Community Connector.

As a Community Connector, you help people engage and make a difference. Working with us, you learn about our nonprofit partners that offer volunteer opportunities and you share your knowledge with newcomers, neighbors, colleagues, faith members, and more. You also share with people how they can engage with SAGE. We value intergenerational relationships and encourage you to meet and support young adults too!

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Host a SAGE Social or Lunch & Learn

Serve as a SAGE Speaker

Serve as a SAGE Advisor or Project Manager

Share knowledge and experience. Join us as a SAGE Advisor or Project Manager.

SAGE relies on pro bono advisors and project managers with specific skills and interests to support our work for the common good. As an advisor or project manager, you offer your knowledge and expertise about social causes, project management, communications, fundraising and much more. You are asked to volunteer five or more hours to support our work.

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Serve as an Office or Admin SAGE

Serve as a Vision 2030 Climate Solutions Educator

SAGE's Vision 2030 Team offers education for middle and high school students about the Portland and Multnomah County climate goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by the year 2030.

Do you enjoy working with middle and high school students? If so, join us as a Climate Solutions Educator to inform students about our region’s 2030 climate goal, the solutions in our region’s Climate Action Plan, relevant workforce opportunities, and to support hands-on projects for students. You can also help facilitate connections between students and teachers and project-learning experiences offered by our partners.

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Serve on our Vision 2030 Core Team

Are you interested in leading an initiative for Vision 2030? If so, we encourage you to join us as a Core Team Member.

Team members promote educational projects and career opportunities. Members include students, teachers, volunteers and nonprofit and governmental organizations who share information, coordinate efforts, and engage students in the learning and work to achieve our region’s goal.

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Serve as a Parkrose Mentor

Join us as a Parkrose Mentor and enrich your life while sharing your time and skill with a young person who is at a critical stage of development.

As a Parkrose Mentor, you offer online or in-person mentoring to elementary or a middle school student in the Parkrose School District in Portland, Oregon. Currently, the program is offered to support students at Prescott Elementary and Parkrose Middle.

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Host a SAGE Citizen Project Gathering: Exploring Common Projects

SAGE's Citizen Project includes events and other initiatives to inspire and support people to work across differences to solve problems.

Host a SAGE Citizen Project Gathering: Exploring Common Projects

Today’s news can make us feel like our communities are more polarized and less able to bring people together to take on projects and solve problems.
What do you think? Can we work across differences and lead good projects together?

We invite you to host a SAGE gathering where guests explore whether they share long-term goals in their community and, if so, what projects might come about to pursue these goals.

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Host a SAGE Citizen Project Gathering on Effective Citizenship: The Leadership Role of Older Adults

SAGE's Citizen Project includes events and other initiatives to inspire and support people to work across differences to solve problems.

Host a SAGE Citizen Project Gathering on Effective Citizenship: The Leadership Role of Older Adults

Perhaps much in the news shocks you and makes you feel like our communities are more polarized, and less able to solve long-term challenges. You can take action. We invite you to host a SAGE gathering where guests share ideas, insights, and actions for constructive engagement.

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