Focus Area
Philanthropy & Nonprofit Support Volunteer Opportunities in Central Oregon
Matching organizations, in a different order on every visit
Sunriver Women's Club
also known as SRWC
All-volunteer community service club welcoming women from Sunriver, La Pine, Bend, and beyond, combining social connection with serious philanthropy. Its community grants, $92,000 to 14 nonprofits this year, focus on south Deschutes County needs: child abuse prevention, education and youth, hunger, health, and safe housing. Its 2026 Power of Giving: End Hunger campaign raised nearly $60,000, beating its goal by half.
A 100% volunteer organization logging more than 10,000 hours a year. Anyone can help staff Kids' Day and July 4th ticket booths in the Village at Sunriver, the Community Picnic, and the Sunriver Art Fair. Members also lead hikes, join hands-on service projects with grantee nonprofits, serve on the grants committee, and help run fundraisers like Art Meets Wine and Power of Giving.
Crook County Foundation
also known as Crook County Education & Community Foundation
The Crook County Foundation brings people, resources, and inspiration together for the enrichment of Prineville and Crook County. Founded in 1998 by the City of Prineville, Crook County, the Crook County School District, Crook County Parks & Recreation, and the Prineville-Crook County Chamber of Commerce, it is the county's home for community leadership development, and it funds arts, education, health, and community improvement through grants, awards student scholarships, and sponsors free summer concerts. It hired its first full-time executive director in 2025.
Volunteers help put on the Foundation's free summer concerts and community events, support its leadership development programming for Prineville and Crook County residents, and serve on committees for scholarships and community grants. Leadership program graduates often go on to board and civic service across the county.
Deschutes Children's Foundation supports the well-being of children and families in Central Oregon by providing low-cost space on shared campuses for nonprofits that serve kids and families, keeping more resources focused on programs, and by bringing partner agencies together so families can find help in one place.
Volunteers help maintain the foundation's campuses that house child- and family-serving nonprofits, with landscaping, cleanup, and project workdays, and support fundraising events. Groups and businesses can take on campus work projects.
Age Friendly Sisters Country
also known as AFSC
Age Friendly Sisters Country (AFSC) champions a livable, resilient Sisters Country that people of all ages are proud to call home. Its all-volunteer board fiscally sponsors resident-led Action Teams, giving good ideas the nonprofit status, accounting, and support to become community projects in housing, transportation, health, and social inclusion. AFSC helped Sisters join the WHO/AARP network of age-friendly communities.
Join an Action Team working on a local issue you care about, from housing and transportation to health services and social inclusion, or serve on AFSC's all-volunteer Board of Directors to help incubate new community projects. Have an idea of your own? AFSC can fiscally sponsor it, providing the nonprofit status, accounting, and support to get it off the ground.
United Way of Central Oregon fights for the health, education, financial stability, and resilience of every person in the region. As a local fundraiser and funder, it invests in Central Oregon nonprofits through community grants, convenes partners around issues like childhood trauma and basic needs, and runs initiatives such as Ride United transportation help and United Way CARES emergency funding. In 2025 it merged with United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, while its money raised here still stays here.
Volunteers help United Way decide where community dollars go by serving on grant review and community impact panels, and support volunteer projects, drives, and events. Businesses and employers can engage their teams through workplace giving and group volunteer projects.
The Rotary Club of Redmond brings together Redmond business and community leaders who meet Thursdays at noon at Juniper Golf Club and carry out local and international service projects under Rotary's motto of Service Above Self, supported by the Redmond Rotary Charitable Corporation.
Rotarians volunteer together on local service projects, fundraisers, community grants, and youth programs in Redmond, and on international service. The main way to get involved is to visit a Thursday noon meeting and join.
100+ Women Who Care Central Oregon
also known as 100+ WWCCO, 100 Women Who Care Central Oregon, 100+ Women Who Care
Giving circle of 100+ Central Oregon women who pool $100 each per quarter to award $10,000+ to a local nonprofit, chosen by member vote after short presentations. Since 2014 it has supported well-known and obscure local charities alike, recently giving $13,630 to Think Wild and funding Every Child Central Oregon's clothing bundles for kids entering foster care.
Members commit $100 and about 90 minutes each quarter. At each meeting they hear three short presentations, vote, and pool their gifts to the winning nonprofit. Any member can nominate and present a local charity she cares about, so it's a powerful way to put a small or lesser-known nonprofit in front of 100+ engaged women. Members can also help with events, outreach, and planning.
Bend Women for Good
also known as BWFG
Bend giving circle founded in 2022 where women pool $100 each per quarter into a single, transformative gift to a local nonprofit chosen by member vote. With about 134 members, it has raised more than $130,000, and seeks to grow in a way that reflects the ethnic, generational, and socioeconomic diversity of the community.
Members give $100 each quarter, nominate local nonprofits they care about, and vote at quarterly Gather & Grant events where three nonprofits present. Members also help grow the circle and host gatherings. Many say it's one of the best ways for women new to Bend to plug into the community.
Women's Foundation of Oregon
also known as WFO
Statewide foundation funding gender justice work across Oregon, with grantee partners in 23 counties. Using a trust-based, low-barrier approach, it supports organizations serving women, girls, and communities historically left out of philanthropy, and goes beyond the check by recruiting and matching volunteers for its grantees.
WFO's Volunteer Committee interviews interested volunteers and matches them with roles at its grantee nonprofits across Oregon based on their time, talents, and passions. It's a good path for people who want help finding the right place to serve women and girls, especially where small nonprofits don't have capacity to recruit volunteers themselves.
The Deschutes Public Library Foundation raises private support for Deschutes Public Library, funding programs and services beyond the library's budget, such as author events, early literacy, summer reading, and special collections, for readers of all ages across Deschutes County.
Volunteers help the Foundation with fundraising events, donor outreach, and community programs like author events. For hands-on volunteering in the libraries themselves (shelving, programs, teen volunteering), apply through Deschutes Public Library.
The Rotary Club of Jefferson County brings together Madras and Jefferson County business and community leaders for fellowship and local and international service projects under Rotary's motto of Service Above Self, supported by the Jefferson County Rotary Foundation.
Rotarians volunteer together on local service projects, fundraisers, scholarships, and community grants in Madras and Jefferson County, and on international service. The main way to get involved is to visit a club meeting and join.
The Cascade Relays Foundation is the nonprofit arm of Cascade Relays. It turns event proceeds and race-day volunteer hours into grants for local nonprofits, schools, and community groups, especially in the rural communities along its course routes, and produces the Bend Christmas Parade, St. Patrick's Day Dash, and I Like Pie. Since 2008, Cascade Relays events have given more than $890,000 to over 60 local charities.
Nonprofits, schools, and community groups can become Charity Partners and raise real money by volunteering. Every team in a Cascade Relays event must supply volunteers or "hire" one; Charity Partners fill those shifts, and at season's end each receives a Foundation grant based on the hours its volunteers worked. Partners can bring as few as 5 or as many as 100 volunteers and can propose other fundraising, like selling snacks on the course.
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