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Volunteer Opportunities in Camp Sherman, Oregon
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Central Oregon Volunteer Connect
also known as COVC, Volunteer Connect, Volunteer Central Oregon
Central Oregon Volunteer Connect is a program of Connect Central Oregon representing one of their four pillars - alongside Mentoring, Innovation, and Partnership. It's a regional infrastructure, shaped and stewarded by community leaders over more than two decades connecting organizations, volunteers, emerging leaders, and community energy across Central Oregon. Along with direct partnership outreach across the region, most notably the Connect Central Oregon Volunteer & Board Fair — the in-person event connecting volunteers and organizations face to face, their Volunteer Central Oregon directory allows browsing or searching to find organizations across Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson Counties, and Warm Springs looking for volunteers, donors, and community partners.
Connect Central Oregon is always looking for leaders who want to help connect individuals, groups, and organizations to each other and strengthen our community. One of the most important roles within the entire organization, serving as a "Connector" represents the very purpose of ConnectCO and serves as the primary method of our community engagement...using very literally every resource ConnectCO and its leadership team have to offer.
Camp Sherman Historical Society
also known as CSHS
The Camp Sherman Historical Society is an all-volunteer nonprofit, founded in 2004, that preserves the history of Camp Sherman and the Metolius River area. It records oral histories, collects photographs and articles, produces films about early Camp Sherman, and supports restoration of historic sites like the Community Hall and the Civilian Conservation Corps picnic shelters along the river.
As an all-volunteer organization, the Historical Society relies on neighbors to record and preserve oral histories, organize photos and archives, help with preservation projects at historic sites, and support community celebrations of local history. Reach out by email to get involved.
Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District
also known as Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District; SCSFD
The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District is a combination career and volunteer fire department serving Sisters, Camp Sherman, and the surrounding area, home to about 6,500 year-round residents and up to 20,000 in summer. It provides fire suppression, advanced life support EMS, and rescue from stations in Sisters and Camp Sherman, plus fire prevention education, wildfire home assessments, and fuel reduction.
Volunteers serve as firefighters and EMTs, with training and EMT tuition provided, and there is a particular need at the Camp Sherman station. Fire Corps auxiliary volunteers support crews with food and drinks during long incidents, help people affected by emergencies, and teach CPR, first aid, and Stop the Bleed. A resident volunteer program for ages 18 and up includes housing and a COCC fire science or EMS scholarship.
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.
Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS)
also known as STARS
Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS) provides free, curb-to-curb rides to non-emergency medical appointments for Sisters Country residents who can't drive themselves, including doctor, dental, lab, and physical therapy visits in Sisters, Bend, and Redmond. Launched in 2020 as an Age Friendly Sisters Country Action Team, STARS became an independent all-volunteer nonprofit in 2024 and provided 832 round-trip rides in 2025.
Volunteer drivers use their own cars to take neighbors to medical appointments, picking up rides that fit their schedule on weekdays between 8 am and 5 pm; STARS provides training and the rides go to Sisters, Bend, and Redmond. Volunteer dispatchers take ride requests by phone and match passengers with drivers, and Spanish-speaking dispatchers are especially welcome.
The Deschutes Land Trust conserves and cares for the lands and waters that sustain Central Oregon, so local communities and the natural world can flourish together for generations to come. Through voluntary conservation agreements, land donations, and purchases, it has protected more than 17,000 acres, restoring creeks, meadows, forests, and grasslands for fish and wildlife. Its community preserves, from Camp Polk Meadow and Whychus Canyon to the Metolius, are open for guided hikes, family nature walks, and exploration.
Volunteers help through several tracks: stewardship work parties (plantings, weed pulls, trail care on Land Trust preserves), trail steward monitoring, community science surveys of birds, butterflies, plants, and wildlife, leading guided hikes as volunteer naturalists, event support at Nature Nights, and office help with mailings. Family-friendly events welcome kids with a supervising adult; some work parties are adults only.
A special district providing parks, recreation programs, and youth activities to enhance livability and community connection in Sisters, Oregon.
Volunteers, including parents, help run youth sports and recreation programs, serve on the board of directors, and support community events like the annual Easter egg hunt at Creekside Park.
Friends of the Metolius is a Camp Sherman-based conservation nonprofit protecting the natural resources and legacy of the Metolius Basin, with its unique water, forests, and wildlife. It monitors water quality and stream health, advocates for the basin, works with the U.S. Forest Service and Camp Sherman Historical Society to restore historic structures, and offers summer interpretive walks.
Volunteers maintain trails in the Metolius Basin, help restore historic structures like the Cinder Beach shelter, support summer interpretive walks, and serve as docents at the historic Black Butte fire lookout cupola, sharing its story with hikers. Reach out through the Friends' website to join a work party or the docent program.
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