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Giving back to your community through volunteering is a great way to gain a sense of purpose! Volunteering allows you to help others in need, gain professional development skills, and helps you meet new people.

Benefits of Volunteering:

On-Campus Service Learning Opportunities:

• WOU Food Pantry: Their mission is to reduce food insecurity among WOU students and the surrounding community.
• Abby’s House: Their mission is to provide the WOU community with education programming, information, and referral services designed to promote equity and non-violence.
• Alternative Break: Service Learning & Career Development Center offers a variety of serving learning experiences throughout the school breaks.

Off Campus Service Learning Opportunities:

• Ella Curran Food Bank: Their mission is to reduce food insecurity in the Monmouth/Independence area.
• Marion Polk Food Share: Their mission is to reduce food insecurity.
• Community Action Head Start: Their mission to provide comprehensive preschool programming for low-income youth.
• Dallas Retirement Village: Their mission is provide quality care to the elderly population.
• Boys & Girls Club: Their mission is to enable all young, especially those who need them most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
• YMCA: Their mission is to create programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
• Help & Hope to Others (H2O): This is a thrift store in Dallas, Oregon that works to provide help and assistance for low-income individuals. (Perk of volunteering here is every 15 hours worked, you earn $25 of in store credit!)
• American Red Cross: Their mission is prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergency by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of others.
• HOME Youth & Resource Center: Their mission is to provide a safe, supportive environment where Salem’s at-risk and homeless youth may have their immediate needs met as well as have positive opportunities to reconnect with their community.
• Habitat for Humanity: Their mission is to bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
• St. Francis Shelter: Their mission to provide safe, stable housing and life skills support to help homeless families return to self-sufficiency.
• Family Building Blocks:  Their mission is to keep kids safe and families together.
• Women at the Well Grace House: Their mission is to provide refuge, support, hope, and love to single women without dependents in a Christ-based shelter. They also aim to remove the obstacles of homelessness by empowering women to achieve and maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle.
• Corvallis Stone Soup: Their mission is to serve one warm meal every day to at-need populations.

More Information on Service:

• Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits