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Tell Your Story

Oregon Involved is collecting stories about Oregonians who have changed lives in their communities by working together in nonprofit organizations. Oregon Involved's homepage will feature a different story for each visit.

Share what it means to be involved as a nonprofit volunteer, employee, beneficiary, or donor!

Writing the Story

  • Tell us about your experience of getting involved with your community by working with a specific nonprofit organization.
  • Just 350 words - please!
  • Be descriptive - tell us what you did, why, and what happened as a result!

Try this easy format to tell your story:

The Challenge

What challenge did your community confront? Did kids need more positive activities? Seniors need good food and company? Did your community need jobs? Housing? More opportunities in the arts? Better parks and libraries?

The Solution

How did you and other community members join forces through a nonprofit organization to address the challenges? Did you create a new organization? Add more volunteer power to an existing one? Make a contribution that motivated friends and neighbors to give generously?

The Outcome

What happened? Did your community provide more resources for kids or seniors? Did you revitalize your downtown? Build a new library? Restore a tired park? Tell us how being invovled and being part of the solution changed your life as well. Did you connect with new neighbors, strengthen old relationships, feel good about showing your children how to share their time and energy?

Organization Overview

Tell the story of where the organization is located, what it does and any additional details about the organization you think are necessary to provide context for the rest of your story.

After writing your story, share it with a friend to make sure it is clear. Revise your story and share it with us. We may edit it to present it more effectively on the Oregon Involved website.

Additional Information to Provide

Please make sure your final submission also includes the following:

  • Organization name
  • Your name and email address
  • Organization contact name and email address (if different from the person's submitting the story)
  • If available, organization website address
  • County where the story happened
  • Subject of the story: e.g., nonprofit volunteer, employee, board member, donor, beneficiary
  • If available, one digital photo related to the story:
    • Caption describing the photo
    • .jpg format
    • Maximum 150 pixels wide by 300 pixels high
    • Optimized for the web at 72 pixels resolution
    • File size should be under 200K
  • If available, a digital file of the organization logo:
    • .gif format suggested
    • Maximum 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels high
    • Optimized for the web at 72 pixels resolution
    • File size should be under 200K

Submit Your Story

Once you’ve compiled everything, please:

  • Email your story (as an attached Word document) and graphic file attachments to stories@oregoninvolved.org, or
  • Use the online submission form to submit your story and graphic file attachments.

If you have any questions, please call us at 503.239.4001.

We appreciate you sharing with us and look forward to reading about your experiences!