Community volunteers

Community volunteers at a Project Access NOW event

 What can you do?

There are lots of dynamic opportunities at Project Access NOW. We can work with you to provide a rewarding volunteer experience, regardless of your schedule. We need volunteers with all kinds of different backgrounds, skills and levels of experience. As we expand to serve more patients and provide them access to quality healthcare, we have a variety of openings:

• Pharmacy Bridge: Medication Assistance Program, Volunteer Pharmacists, Patient Data Entry
• Care Coordination: Program Assistant, Cancer Coordination Group Facilitation, Patient Appointment Scheduling, Investigative Resource Projects
• General Operations: Receptionist, Interpreter, Patient Entry/Exit Surveys, Billing, Document Management and Archiving, Administrative Assistance, Durable Medical Equipment Facilitation, Provider Volunteer Credential Verification, Recruitment and Orientation
• Resource Development: Volunteer Program Assistant, Event Planning Assistant, Public Relations / Marketing / Social Media Facilitation, Grant Research and Writing

 Helpful documents

 Community Volunteer Application

 Fact Sheet

If you believe that access to healthcare is a basic human right, Project Access NOW is the right place for you.

The Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area is home to more than 300,000 uninsured people. Less than half receive basic medical care through safetynet clinics: non-profit clinics that provide free care to uninsured and underinsured people. Most of the rest either go to the emergency room, or go without care.

Project Access NOW coordinates a network of healthcare providers who donate medically necessary healthcare to qualified individuals. This vital work is made possible by people like you, who realize their potential to make a lasting impact in so many lives. The clients of Project Access NOW need your help!

We depend on volunteers. Getting involved sends a powerful message to the most vulnerable in our midst: We are a community that cares.

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 Featured community volunteer: Shannon Kelley

Shannon Kelley learned about Project Access NOW through her former co-worker, Janet Hamilton, when Janet started volunteering several years ago, before being hired as Project Access NOW’s Director of Operations.  Shannon attended the annual Bridges to Health Care events starting in 2008 and was “mesmerized by Project Access NOW’s mission, Executive Director, Linda Nilsen-Solares and the entire dedicated staff.”
 
The organization Shannon worked for underwent several changes and in June 2011, she was let go from her position as the Office Administrator. “It was an unexpected devastating blow after 9 successful and memorable years. I was 55 years old and unemployment was at an all time high.” 

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 Further reading

Community volunteers and Hands On Greater Portland are making a difference

Community volunteer profiles

Kathy Burdick
Carey Cameron
Vicki Cameron
Judy Hale
Ryan Kartheiser
Betty Marino
Kathi Misner
Molly McGuire
Yolanda Moisa
Patrick R.
Ann Shim
Janet Williams