We are Port City Development Center (Port City), a day program in beautiful Portland Oregon dedicated to strengthening the self-sufficiency of adults with developmental disabilities. Here we will be posting a bit about our activities around town as Port City Volunteers: an ever-changing group of individuals engaged in various forms of community service.
Do you have suggestions or opportunities for volunteer activities in Portland that we should know about? Please contact us at: mkoetje@portcitydevelopment.org
To learn more about Port City, please visit our website: portcitydevelopment.org
In the spirit of beginnings, here are a few (illuminating and rather poetic) definitions of the word "volunteer":
The practice of people working on behalf of others or a particular cause without payment for their time and services.
In gardening and botanical terminology, a volunteer is a plant that grows on its own, rather than being deliberately planted by a human farmer or gardener. Volunteers often grow from seeds that float in on the wind, are dropped by birds, or are inadvertently mixed into compost before it is used.
To give, bestow, or perform voluntarily: to volunteer a song. To say, tell, or communicate voluntarily: to volunteer an explanation.
To do charitable or helpful work, offer, step forward, offer your services, propose, let yourself in for, need no invitation, present your services, proffer your services.
