Get Involved
Sign up. Show up.
Volunteer.
FSSW is a 100% volunteer-run support effort for organizing drives of low-income farm, service and seasonal workers and their families. Your participation will make a difference from your first day in the door. Don’t wait, call today!
Call: 503-231-4826
No experience? No problem! All training is on-the-job from people with more experience.
There is a place for you
You can participate...
make a difference
As an individual
You can make a huge impact through joining an organization of people committed to changing the economic conditions of service and other low-income workers in the Northwest and across the country.
strength in numbers
As a group
From college classes to congregations, labor unions, civic clubs and work places, groups large and small are welcome to participate with FSSW.
your skills can help
As a professional
Doctors, dentists, lawyers, trades people, graphic designers, journalists and many other professionals can volunteer their professional skills to advance the just cause of seasonal and service workers.
503-231-4826
HOW IT WORKS
No machines. No AI chatbots.
Just human contact.
You call us
Call us seven days a week, including evenings.
We answer
A volunteer will answer your call and any questions you have.
You schedule
No prior experience is necessary and you are productive your first day as a volunteer!
FSSW’s phone line is staffed by volunteers who are ready to answer your call today.
503-231-4826
Regular Activities
There are many ways to get involved
Illustration by Li Tie
Neighborhood Food Drive
Join other FSSW volunteers on weekly neighborhood food drives to collect food and sign volunteers interested in participating in a fight against hunger facing low-income workers. You can also participate by hosting a food drive in your neighborhood.
Grocery store pickups
Volunteers use their personal vehicles to pick up donated food from local markets and deliver to Western Farm Workers Association’s neighborhood delegates where they run supplemental food distributions to participating members.
Donation sorting
Volunteers are needed to sort donations of clothing, shoes and kitchenware. Volunteers prepare the sorted donations for shipment to self-help organizations of low-paid workers whose members have requested these resources as part of their benefit programs.
Publications production
Join FSSW’s publication staff! You can learn — or help teach — how to produce the next issue of FSSW’s newspaper, Seasonal Greetings, to tell the truth about low-income workers organizing for economic justice, and our seasonal Sponsors Guide. We also need volunteers to design flyers.
Illustration by Li Tie
Community outreach
Volunteers set up information tables in front of grocery stores, at local community events and other locations to promote FSSW so that others can join our cause. This is one way FSSW enlists new friends and participants to come in and make a difference.
Illustration by Li Tie
Business canvass
FSSW needs volunteers to join weekly canvasses to reach business owners throughout the Portland Metro area about supporting the independent efforts of low-income workers organizing. Businesses have a mutual shared interest in an economy where wages allow workers to patronize local businesses.
“Volunteering at Friends of Seasonal and Service Workers is a joy. This organization provides opportunities to assist others that fit your age and abilities, really important for me at 75 years old as my abilities seem ever changing! It is an honor to work alongside people recognizing the extremely hard labor of our service workers and farm workers, really the backbone of America, the laborers that keep the country moving forward. I believe FSSW represents our unsung heroes and I’m so glad I found the organization and am counted as part of their volunteer force. If you are considering volunteering anywhere, I encourage you to give them a call at 503-231-4826 and see what opportunities are open. You won’t regret the call.”
Capi Reed * Volunteer and Supporter
Build the Movement for change
FSSW trains
organizers
No experience is necessary!
FSSW needs you as a full-time or part-time volunteer. On-the-job training is provided in all basic organizing skills. No prior experience is necessary – just a willingness to learn and daring to care about the future of our communities.