An independent, all-volunteer Oregon nonprofit started and run by Silver Rail Elementary parents after the October 15, 2026 shooting. The fund supports every child who was in the building that day (plus their siblings and the children of adults who were there) with what they need to heal and feel like kids again: activities, classes, outings, play, counseling, and therapy. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeCommittee-based volunteering: fundraising and grant leads, recruiting business sponsors, lining up arts and enrichment providers, trauma-informed care advising, event planning and chaperoning, helping families with… Read more ›
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The PTO is a non-profit organization that exists for the purpose of supporting the education of children at Silver Rail Elementary School by fostering relationships among the school, parents, and teachers. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeEvent support (staffing and cheering shifts at school events like the Color Fun Run), riding along with the student Bike Bus, helping run the school-day Mileage Club, Watch D.O.G.S. (dads and father figures volunteering at school), and PTO leadership roles. Read more ›
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Clear Mourning is a Bend-based nonprofit working to shift the culture of grief, so people who have experienced profound or traumatic loss can grieve freely and learn to carry their grief into daily life. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help run grief camps for kids, support workshops, support groups, and community events, and assist with outreach and fundraising. Volunteer roles are posted on the volunteer opportunities page.
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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The High Desert Museum, just south of Bend, is the largest cultural institution in Central and Eastern Oregon and the only museum in the nation devoted to North America's High Desert. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers support nearly every part of the Museum, from staffing exhibits and leading hands-on activities for visitors to helping school groups on field trips, assisting at Admissions, and interpreting living history and natural history at various sites. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
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YouthLine is a free, confidential teen-to-teen crisis and help line, a program of Lines for Life, where trained teen volunteers support other young people by phone, text, and chat, with adult clinicians available around the clock.
Volunteering looks likeTeen volunteers are trained to answer YouthLine calls, texts, and chats, offering peer support to other youth with adult supervisors backing them up, and join outreach to spread the word in schools. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)
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St. Charles Health System is Central Oregon's nonprofit health system, operating hospitals in Bend, Redmond, Prineville, and Madras along with family care and specialty clinics, hospice, and community health programs, serving people across the region.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers serve at St. Charles hospitals and clinics in Bend, Redmond, Prineville, and Madras, greeting and guiding patients and visitors, supporting patient units and waiting areas, staffing gift shops, and helping with hospice and caregiving programs. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
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Deschutes County Health Services (DCHS) provides public health and behavioral health programs county-wide, including public health clinics, school-based health centers, environmental health, crisis services, and outpatient and youth behavioral health. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeMedical Reserve Corps volunteers, both medical and non-medical, support emergency and disaster response, staff pre-planned community events, help with public health and behavioral health outreach and education, and take part in trainings, exercises, and drills. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Compassionate Canines of Central Oregon is an all-volunteer group, founded in 2001, that brings registered therapy dog teams into hospitals, schools, special needs centers, and nursing homes across the region. It matches teams with places that want visits, and offers education and networking for handlers. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeHandlers and their dogs visit hospitals, schools, special needs centers, and care facilities as therapy dog teams. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response is an all-volunteer nonprofit that has sent specially trained dog and handler teams to comfort people affected by crises and disasters since 1999. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers serve as certified crisis response canine teams, offering comfort at disasters, school crises, and other traumatic events when an agency requests them, or as team leaders who supervise and support teams on deployment without needing a dog of their own. Read more ›
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Lines for Life is an Oregon nonprofit dedicated to preventing substance use and suicide. It operates free, confidential crisis and support lines, including Oregon's 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, YouthLine for teens and young adults, and support lines for veterans and military families, alongside prevention education and training for communities across the state.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers answer calls on the in-person crisis line in Portland, supporting people facing suicidal thoughts, substance use issues, and loneliness after extensive training. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Deschutes Public Library serves all of Deschutes County through branches in Bend, Redmond, Sisters, La Pine, and Sunriver, offering books and media, digital resources, storytimes and youth programs, adult learning and author events, and community spaces. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help at branches across Deschutes County with materials handling, programs and events, and outreach. Read more ›
Who can volunteerPreteens (10–12)Adolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
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ClearPath Healthcare, formerly Hospice of Redmond, is a local nonprofit that has cared for Central Oregon families since 1979. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeTrained hospice volunteers are part of the care team: offering companionship and respite so family caregivers can rest, sitting vigil, supporting veterans through We Honor Veterans, and helping with grief support. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Crook County Fire & Rescue provides fire, emergency medical, and ambulance service from Prineville. Alongside its career crews it relies on volunteer and resident firefighters, and it teaches the community too, including free Stop the Bleed classes in partnership with St. Charles that train residents and workplaces to control life-threatening bleeding.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteer firefighter/EMTs respond to medical calls, crashes, and structural and wildland fires, and can train to drive apparatus and ambulances. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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NAMI Central Oregon, the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, provides free support, education, and advocacy for people living with mental illness and their families, including peer and family support groups, classes, and community presentations that reduce stigma and help people find hope and recovery.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteer roles include support group leaders and class teachers (with NAMI training, often people with lived experience), community presentations and outreach, local advocacy, events and fundraising, grant writing, graphic design and writing, and admin help. Read more ›
Who can volunteerGroupsCorporate / Workplace GroupsAdolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
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Stop the Bleed is the American College of Surgeons' national program, run under a license from the U.S. Department of Defense, that teaches everyday people to control life-threatening bleeding before help arrives. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeAnyone old enough to understand the material can take a free hands-on course and be ready to help in a bleeding emergency. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Bend-La Pine Schools is the public school district serving Bend, La Pine, Sunriver, and surrounding communities in Deschutes County, with elementary, middle, and high schools, magnet and choice schools like Westside Village and REALMS, and programs such as the Teen Parent Program. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers support students in schools across the district, helping in classrooms and libraries, chaperoning field trips, mentoring and tutoring, and helping with school events. Read more ›
Who can volunteerFamiliesAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Pet Partners is a national nonprofit, based in Bellevue, Washington, that educates, evaluates, certifies, and insures volunteer therapy animal teams. For nearly 50 years its teams have visited hospitals, schools, and nursing homes, and it registers nine species, from dogs and cats to horses, rabbits, birds, and llamas. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers and their animals become registered therapy animal teams that visit hospitals, schools, care facilities, and people recovering from crises. Read more ›
Who can volunteerPreteens (10–12)Adolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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The American Red Cross Cascades Region serves Central and Eastern Oregon, responding to home fires and other disasters with shelter, food, and emergency support, collecting lifesaving blood, teaching CPR, first aid, and home fire safety, and supporting military families and veterans. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteer roles include Disaster Action Team responders, blood drive support, home fire safety campaign outreach, CPR/first aid instructors, and shelter workers during emergencies. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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The Central Oregon group of Moms Demand Action has been active in Bend since 2014 as a local group of the Oregon chapter. Its volunteers organize community gatherings such as the annual Wear Orange event each June, meet with lawmakers, and share safe firearm storage education with families. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help with community events and vigils, legislative advocacy (contacting lawmakers, testifying, advocacy days in Salem), Be SMART safe firearm storage education, voter outreach, tabling at local events, and survivor support. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Partners In Care is Central Oregon's only independent, nonprofit home health and hospice organization, and the state's first hospice service. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeHospice volunteers offer companionship and support to patients and families through presence, not medical tasks, serving 2–8 hours a month (often 1–3 hours a week) for at least a year. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Bend Park and Recreation District manages Bend's parks, trails, and recreation facilities, including Juniper Swim & Fitness Center, Larkspur Community Center, and the Deschutes River Trail, and offers year-round sports, fitness, youth, and senior programs for residents of all ages and abilities.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers coach youth sports, help care for parks and trails through project days (weeding, litter cleanup, trail maintenance), and support recreation programs — including teen-specific roles like Cougar Camp counselors, Junior Lifeguard and Swim Instructor Aides. Read more ›
Who can volunteerPreteens (10–12)Adolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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Central Oregon Pediatric Associates (COPA) is a for-profit pediatric practice, founded in 1976, caring for newborns through teens at clinics in East, West, and South Bend and in Redmond, with behavioral health, allergy, lactation, nutrition, and community health worker support. Read more ›
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Provides primary care, mental health and dental services regardless of the ability to pay. Sliding scale discounts available to those eligible.
Volunteering looks likeOutreach and event volunteering: representing Mosaic at community events, staffing a booth, set-up and tear-down. Advisory roles: a Fundraising Advisory Council, plus Patient Advisory Councils for Mosaic patients. Read more ›
Who can volunteerCorporate / Workplace GroupsAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
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Bend Fire & Rescue is the City of Bend's fire and emergency medical service, answering fire, rescue, and ambulance calls from stations across Bend and the surrounding rural fire district. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeSupport volunteers visit seniors' homes to check for fire and fall hazards through Safety Outreach for Seniors, teach prevention programs like smoke alarm and car seat safety, staff the Community Engine and Sparky at… Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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The National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA), based in Alexandria, Virginia, has led victim services and crisis response in the United States since 1975. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likePeople from many backgrounds, including first responders, mental health professionals, school counselors, faith leaders, and victim advocates, take NOVA's 24-hour Basic Community Crisis Response Team training to serve… Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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