Particular Solutions to Time Independent Nonhomogeneous PDE's in Spherical Coordinates

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I find myself working with PDE's like: $$\nabla^2f = G$$ or $$\nabla^2 f + k^2f = G$$

in spherical coordinates.

I know that the homogeneous form of these equations (Laplace's and Helmholtz) have well known solutions. However, I do not know what method I could use to solve for the particular solution in each case.

Generally, the forcing function $G$ comes the previous step of a perturbation expansion, so many times it's expressed as an infinite sum, or something similar.

Is there a general method that can help me find the particular solution to these type of problems?