Assignments From: City of Tigard

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Family Promise of Tualatin Valley. Families with kids are encouraged to attend this event. Under 18 must have a parent or guardian present. When you respond to this volunteer assignment, please include a note about how many kids you are bringing. You will need to sign a waiver for your child/children when you get to the volunteer location. Thanks.

Families will make valentines for guests in preparation for Valentine's Day. There will also be opportunities for light maintenance, if the valentine-making area is full or you prefer that instead. If you want to make yourself available to paint or clean, please wear clothing that can get dirty!

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Akwaba Food Kitchen to make sandwiches and sack lunches for our local partners serving unhoused community members, such as St. Anthony Catholic Church. We'll also have a station set up to make cards to accompany the lunches. No food handler's card needed. Masks & gloves provided.

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Community Warehouse, a furniture bank. We will sort donations and also assemble their "Clean Home Kits" which are given to their clients to help them set up their new home. Volunteers may also sort donations depending on attendance numbers. Teen volunteers welcome but must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at Tigard Public Library to create buttons, postcards, and more to stock the library for Disability Pride Month. All ages welcome. Volunteers under age 12 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s profound recognition that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” paved the foundation of the Disability Rights Movement. From disability activists who marched with Dr. King including Jim Letherer, Rev. Kenneth Brown, and Wade Blank to modern disability rights activists dedicated to breaking stigmas, increasing autonomy, celebrating community, and furthering intersectional justice, generations of civil rights activists have been moved by Dr. King’s assertion of his right to define his own humanity. 

Are you passionate about sharing these principles with a new generation? Or are you starting to learn about the Disability Rights Movement and curious to learn more? Do you enjoy sharing your perspective – and/or do you enjoy making buttons, stickers, or postcards?

In this one-day program support position, volunteers help the library prepare for Disability Pride Month by making buttons, stickers, postcards, and more. As a volunteer, you will be able to create and take some items to share with your own community as well as create resources for the library to distribute.

This volunteer opportunity is hybrid. All registered volunteers will be emailed a link to the online session two days before the event. Volunteers are also welcome to participate in-person at the library.

To protect high-risk individuals from respiratory viruses (COVID-19, Influenza, RSV, etc.), the library will provide KN95 respirators (masks) to wear during the event and COVID-19 at-home test kits two weeks prior to the event. Receiving/wearing masks and/or testing supplies is voluntary.

Access information: The event space is wheelchair accessible. There are gendered restrooms nearby with accessible stalls large enough to turn a wheelchair, grab bars, and paper towel dispensers (no hand dryers). There is a single-occupancy, all-gender restroom farther in the library with enough space to turn a wheelchair, grab bars, and a paper towel dispenser (no hand dryers). The event space will include a dedicated table for volunteers who would not like to socialize, and all tables will include various styles of chairs. Interpretation, including ASL interpretation, is available by request and delivered through a library-provided tablet. If you need additional accommodations or have an access question not listed here, please contact event organizer Becca at becca.reyes@tigard-or.gov or 503-718-2516.

Want to do a volunteer activity on your own time, in your own neighborhood? We have just the thing for you. For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers can print flyers for Comfort Zone, a Tigard peer-run drop-in center operated by the mental health nonprofit New Narrative. Then, put the flyers up (after asking the proprietors, of course!) in your local coffee shop, grocery store bulletin board, small business window, employee breakroom, at your work, or anywhere else that they will be seen. You can also post about Comfort Zone on your personal social media. We want to help get the word out about this great community resource to Tigard residents.

These flyers advertise free drop-in groups and activities that are open to all and run daily at Comfort Zone. Groups and activities include those focused on recovery from substances, TED Talks, alternatives to suicide, LGBTQ+ support, game nights and more.

Print these at home or at the library if you don't have a printer, or if you prefer, email alex.richardson@tigard-or.gov ahead of time to arrange pick up copies at Tigard City Hall (only available on Thursdays between 7am and 2pm!)

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, volunteers will meet at the Tigard Senior Center/Meals on Wheels People. Volunteers will clean the kitchen, dining rooms, library, and downstairs areas of the Senior Center and make it sparkling and inviting for guests! Cleaning supplies will be provided and will include soap and water, citrus degreaser, and bleach water. Masks and gloves will be provided.

For this 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Service event, join Tigard Turns the Tide and the STUDD (Stop Tigard Underage Drinking and Drug Use) Club at Tigard High School in creating posters to promote and support National Random Acts of Kindness week in February. All supplies provided. Participants will have the opportunity to take home their posters and put them up at their home, work, or children's schools. Parents and youth are encouraged to attend together! Space is limited. Only volunteers who sign up in advance will be accepted due to room capacity.