NeighborLink PDX
Loving our neighbors in practical ways.
At NeighborLink PDX, we empower people to serve their local communities with ease and flexibility. Our vision is to spark a movement -- one where neighbors help neighbors through simple acts of service and compassion.
Our Mission
To provide practical, neighbor-to-neighbor expressions of God’s love to those in need across Portland.
How You Can Get Involved
- Post your own need by clicking I Need Help.
- Volunteer your time and skills by clicking I Can Help.
- Partner with local projects alongside existing organizations.
- Support neighborhood initiatives through everyday acts of love.
- Start a community (COMING SOON)
Additional Service Opportunities
People with physical or developmental barriers and those adapting to a new culture:
Pamoja House: a nonprofit providing education (ESL and citizenship classes), tutoring, and driver’s education support to refugees and immigrants while focusing on building community and individualized care.
Refugee Care Collective: a nonprofit that provides newly resettled refugee families with immediate support (like “restart kits” of essential household items) and long-term mentorship and community partnerships to help them rebuild their lives in Oregon.
We Carry Kevan: a nonprofit that empowers individuals with disabilities by redefining accessibility as a cooperative effort—supporting them through specially designed carrier backpacks and community connections to enable adventure, freedom, and joy.
People without stable families and elders experiencing isolation or neglect:
Choice Adoptions: a nonprofit that supports pregnant women with no-cost advocacy and also facilitates adoptive placements (infant adoption, foster child adoption, home studies) to create loving, permanent homes for children.
Family Room: a nonprofit whose mission is to provide a homelike visitation setting for children in foster care and their birth parents—enhancing both the quantity and quality of family time with the goal of safely, expeditiously, and sustainably reuniting families.
Foster Parents Night Out: a respite care program that serves foster and adoptive families in Portland by throwing a big party for kids 0–18 one Saturday per month, giving caretakers and parents respite.
Kindred Partners: a nonprofit that creates relational networks connecting churches, schools, nonprofits, and businesses to support vulnerable children and families through circles of care and community.
Every Child PDX: a community-mobilizing organization in Portland that works to uplift children and families impacted by foster care through advocacy, volunteers, and supportive partnerships.
With Love: a nonprofit in Oregon and SW Washington that partners with resource families caring for children aged 0-6, providing high-quality essentials and support to nurture dignity, hope, and community.
People navigating housing instability and/or substance dependence:
City Team: a faith-based nonprofit in Portland that provides meals, shelter, addiction recovery programs and holistic support to individuals experiencing homelessness, hunger, and other life-disabling challenges.
Community of Hope: a restorative residential program in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland providing women and children facing homelessness, crisis, or domestic violence with safe housing, trauma-informed care, life-skills support and a path toward stability.
Garden Space PDX: a downtown Portland prayer room and urban sanctuary where individuals and communities gather for worship, creative expression, and collective renewal in the heart of the city’s Old Town neighborhood.
The Harbor: a long-term residential recovery program for men operated by Portland Rescue Mission in Portland, offering holistic care including addiction recovery, life-skills training, spiritual formation, and stable housing—all free of cost.
Night Strike: a weekly outreach gathering in Portland that mobilizes volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness by providing hot meals, clothing, hair-cuts, foot washing and relationship-based presence under the Burnside Bridge.
Portland Rescue Mission: a Christian-faith-based nonprofit in Portland, Oregon that offers meals, shelter, long-term recovery programs, and holistic care to men, women, and children experiencing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and despair.
Shepherd’s Door: a residential recovery and long-term support program for women (and women with children) operated by Portland Rescue Mission in Portland that offers addiction recovery, holistic care, childcare and life-skills training in a safe, retreat-like setting.
Transitional Youth: a faith-based nonprofit serving at-risk and homeless youth in the Portland–Vancouver region by offering outreach, mentoring, housing and life-skills development to help them move toward independent, healthy futures.
Underground PDX: is a Portland-based youth mentorship and fitness nonprofit that empowers under-resourced young people to build physical and mental strength through community-based training, teamwork, and leadership development.
Questions? Please contact us:
Bridgetown Church
2120 NE Tillamook St.
Portland, Oregon 97212