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Careers at SVdP
SVdP provides a number of employment opportunities. For more details on applying to SVdP jobs, visit our employment page.
Volunteer Today!
Thank you in advance for your interest and willingness to share your time and talents with us. We have many volunteer opportunities, ranging from making food boxes at the Atkinson Food Room to supporting our teaching staff at First Place Family Center. Click to button below to get more information.
Donate Items
Donations from the community help us support people in need and raise funds for our charitable programs. We accept a wide variety of clothing, household items, appliances, electronics and more at our donation centers.
St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County (Oregon), with generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, created the Cascade Alliance and manages the program. The Cascade Alliance helps nonprofits across the country turn discarded items into a stable revenue stream and source of quality jobs for people with barriers, thereby providing lasting communitywide economic and environmental impacts.
Our accomplishments from 2013-2015:
- 18 Nonprofit organizations mentored
- 15 Reuse/recycling businesses launched
- 150 Full-time, life-stabilizing jobs created for people with barriers
- 130 People with barriers received job training
- 239,292 Mattresses and boxsprings recycled by members
- $481,465 Community savings in avoided trash bills
- $1,015,766 Revenue from members’ book businesses
- 7,193,963 Pounds of materials recovered from waste stream to create jobs and revenue for nonprofit organizations
For organizations seeking more information or mentorship, please click the button below.
Note: We are working to get updated numbers to update our accomplishments – please use these numbers as a placeholder.
Special Events, Drives and Programs
Holiday Joy
At St. Vincent de Paul we want every family’s holiday celebration to include a nourishing meal and at least one gift for children to unwrap. For many of the people who live in our housing, however, it’s a struggle to pay rent every month. A new coat, toy, or set of baking pans may seem like a luxury that’s out of reach.
To help ensure all our residents have a happy holiday, St. Vincent de Paul conducts the Holiday Joy fundraising and sponsorship drive. Individuals and community groups sponsor families by providing gifts for each member of the family. This program emphasizes the essentials: money for rent and utilities, warm clothing, and necessary household items. We also have some requests from children for special items that would help make their holiday bright.
This is a great way to give back during the season of giving. If your family, work team, service club or other group is interested in a most festive and greatly appreciated project, we can use your help.
Sponsor a family, veteran or single adult. $30 will ensure your neighbor in need gets a bit of the JOY this holiday season!
Bid Opportunities
In our work in real estate development, renovation and maintenance, and service provision, St. Vincent de Paul periodically contracts with outside vendors in our community. Check back regularly for opportunities to work with us in areas of design, general contracting, specific trades, as well as services.
There are currently no open bid opportunities.