Founded by Celebrity Photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a community of photographers coming together across the world to use their photography skills to give back to their local community. In December, photographers around the world grab their cameras, find people in need and take their picture. When the prints are ready, the photographs get [...]

Shangri-La welcomed 17 Corban University students and faculty on August 30, for a day of volunteer service. Volunteers spent the day sorting clothes at Le Closet, building bird houses with the participants in LEAP, and helping landscape the yard at one of our homes. We are so appreciative of their service and thank them for [...]

On Thursday, July 7, Shangri-La stakeholders volunteered to re-pack food at the Marion Polk Food Share. The volunteer opportunity was part of Shangri-La’s “Summer of Giving”. Volunteers from Shangri-La spent their time at the Food Share repacking bulk rice and beans into two pound packages. The smaller packages will eventually be distributed to more than [...]

  It was a bittersweet farewell. Shangri-La’s Life Enrichment Activity Program (LEAP) took a few minutes on Monday to wish a volunteer both farewell and good luck. Shaffer, a volunteer at LEAP for past few months will be graduating from Willamette University on Sunday, May 15, and will begin the next chapter in his life. [...]