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 ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
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+)
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
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+)
Battle Buddies of Central Oregon works to prevent veteran and first responder suicide through canine companionship and dog training. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeBattle Buddies is all-volunteer. Dog trainers and experienced handlers help train support dogs with their veterans, and other volunteers help with fundraising, events, and outreach to veterans and first responders. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
The Rawley Project is a Bend dog rescue that finds homes for abandoned dogs and provides temporary refuge for the pets of people in crisis who don't want to surrender them, and runs FIXBend, which offers low-cost spay and neuter surgeries to reduce pet overpopulation.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers foster dogs in their own homes — a short-term commitment with lasting impact — and support the FIXbend program, which provides low-cost spay/neuter, vaccine, and microchip services to reduce pet overpopulation in the community. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Mustangs To The Rescue is an all-breed, all-volunteer horse rescue founded in 2012 by Kate Beardsley at Western Sky Ranch in southeast Bend. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeMTTR is all-volunteer. Crew members help with daily horse care (feeding, cleaning, grooming, and handling), training and rehabilitation projects, ranch upkeep, adoptions and open houses, and fundraising events. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Furry Freight Shelter Transport moves at-risk shelter animals from overcrowded shelters to rescues and adoption partners with more room, giving more dogs and cats the chance at a home.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers drive transport legs moving shelter animals to rescues and adopters, and help with loading, animal care during transport, and coordination.
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Redmond equine sanctuary that rescues and rehabilitates horses, donkeys, mules, and mustangs facing abuse, neglect, or slaughter, offers options for owners who can no longer care for their animals, and hosts gentle-training clinics and education programs that build healing connections between people and equines.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help with daily care of rescued horses, donkeys, mules, and mustangs, along with ranch upkeep like fencing and hay, and support the sanctuary's community events and training clinics.
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Think Wild is Central and Eastern Oregon's only public wildlife hospital and conservation center, located on four acres on Bend's east side. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help in the wildlife hospital with animal care, diet prep, and enclosure upkeep; rescue and transport injured wildlife; care for ambassador animals; support education programs, camps, and community events; and assist with humane wildlife conflict projects. Read more ›
Who can volunteerFamiliesGroupsCorporate / Workplace GroupsSchool GroupsScout TroopsFaith GroupsChildren (3–9)Preteens (10–12)Adolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Companion Animal Medical Project (CAMP), founded in 2020, provides free and low-barrier veterinary care for pets of people experiencing homelessness or financial hardship across Central Oregon, through no-cost wellness and vaccine clinics from Madras to La Pine, low-cost spay/neuter and emergency care, transportation… Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help run CAMP's free pop-up wellness and vaccine clinics around Central Oregon, checking in clients and pets, handling animals, organizing supplies, and supporting veterinary teams, and help with transport, pet-supply drives, and events. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Beaver Works Oregon is Think Wild's habitat restoration program, working with land managers and conservation partners across Central and Eastern Oregon to bring back healthy, beaver-supported streams and wetlands. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers build and maintain beaver dam analogs, plant native willows and cottonwoods along streams, harvest willow for propagation, and survey waterways for signs of beaver activity to support long-term research. Read more ›
Who can volunteerFamiliesGroupsChildren (3–9)Preteens (10–12)Adolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)