The Warm Springs Community Action Team works to build economic self-sufficiency on the Warm Springs Reservation, supporting local entrepreneurs and small businesses, homeownership and home repair, financial education, and community development.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers share professional skills as business mentors and coaches, help with community events and markets, and support home-repair and financial education programs.
Who can volunteerAdults (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+)
Founded in 1943, Bend's longest continuously running women's service organization. SI Bend gives Live Your Dream cash awards to head-of-household women pursuing education or training, funds local programs that help women leave domestic abuse, trafficking, and food and housing insecurity, and supports partners like Bethlehem Inn, Shepherd's House, Grandma's House, and KIDS Center.
Volunteering looks likeMembers review and celebrate Live Your Dream Award applicants, collect baby items for families through the annual community baby shower, make and sell holiday wreaths to support local shelters, and help with grants to partner nonprofits. Read more ›
Who can volunteerGroupsAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Thrive Central Oregon connects people facing housing insecurity, mental health challenges, and other barriers with resources and support, through drop-in resource sites, peer support, and help navigating housing, health, and basic-needs services across the region.
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers provide moving help for households Thrive works with as they move into more sustainable, long-term housing, filling a gap for neighbors who lack the ability or the family and friends to move on their own. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Founded in 1968, J Bar J Youth Services is the largest provider of services to at-risk youth and families in Central Oregon. Its programs include J Bar J Boys Ranch and J5, the J Bar J Learning Center, Cascade Youth & Family Center, Grandma's House, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon, Kindred Connections and the at: project anti-trafficking program. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteering at J Bar J happens through its programs. Adults mentor children through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon. Read more ›
Who can volunteerFamiliesFaith GroupsAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Central Oregon Veterans Ranch is a working ranch near Bend where veterans find community, purpose, and healing, offering housing and care for aging veterans in a peaceful rural setting and hands-on farm, garden, and animal work for veterans of all ages.
Volunteering looks likeCommunity volunteers keep the working ranch running: providing meals for veteran workdays and partner gatherings, admin and outreach help, technical (IT) support, gardening and greenhouse work, and seasonal workdays such as roadside clean-ups and garden teardown. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
The Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity ReStore is a nonprofit home improvement store and donation center selling donated new and reclaimed building materials, furniture, appliances, and home goods at a fraction of retail price. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeReStore volunteers work alongside staff on regular shifts: cashiering, greeting shoppers, receiving and sorting donations, merchandising and setting up displays, and helping keep the store running. Read more ›
Who can volunteerGroupsCourt-Ordered / Community ServiceAdolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
Central Oregon Veterans & Community Outreach (COVO) was founded in 2005 by members of the Bend-area chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, who refused to let fellow veterans end up without housing, jobs, or dignity. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers are the backbone of COVO's outreach: each week crews visit camps around Bend delivering food, water, propane, camping gear, and clothing, and picking up bagged trash to keep camps clean. Read more ›
Who can volunteerGroupsAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
A nonprofit legal services program working to achieve justice for Oregon's low-income communities. It provides free civil legal help, including advice, representation, clinics, and self-help information, in areas such as housing and landlord-tenant issues, family law and restraining orders, public benefits, consumer, and employment law. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likePro bono legal work for attorneys licensed in Oregon, including advice clinics and case representation in areas like bankruptcy, consumer law, criminal record expungement, protection from abuse, senior law, employment, and wills. Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
Bethlehem Inn is Central Oregon's largest emergency shelter, providing a safe place to sleep, three meals a day, and case management for adults and families experiencing homelessness. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers prepare and serve meals for residents (on-site or cooked at home), assemble sack lunches, sort donations and staff the clothing room, and help at the front desk at the Bend and Redmond shelters. Read more ›
Who can volunteerFamiliesGroupsChildren (3–9)Preteens (10–12)Adolescents (13–18)Adults (19+)Older adults (65+)Oregon Health Plan Hours
Voices Against Trafficking is a Redmond nonprofit founded by attorney, author, and survivor advocate Andi Buerger to raise awareness of human trafficking and teen homelessness, even in smaller communities like those in Central Oregon, and to give survivors a voice. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers help raise awareness of human trafficking and teen homelessness in Central Oregon by supporting community talks and events, outreach and education efforts, and fundraising.
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)
Jericho Road serves Redmond-area individuals and families who are unhoused or struggling financially, providing shelter support, emergency assistance, community meals at the Jericho Table, and weekly outreach with food, hygiene supplies, and mobile showers. Read more ›
Volunteering looks likeVolunteers join Jericho Road's weekly Friday outreach in east Redmond, handing out food and hygiene supplies alongside a mobile shower van; serve community meals at the Jericho Table; support emergency assistance… Read more ›
Who can volunteerAdults (19+)Older adults (65+)