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Volunteer Opportunities in Crooked River Ranch, 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.
Operation Christmas Wishes is a Terrebonne nonprofit that helps local families in need during the holiday season, providing essential items, food, gifts, and support for teens to take part in sports.
Volunteers help gather, sort, wrap, and deliver essential items, food, and gifts to local families during the holiday season, and support its teen sports assistance.
ClearPath Healthcare
also known as Hospice of Redmond
ClearPath Healthcare, formerly Hospice of Redmond, is a local nonprofit that has cared for Central Oregon families since 1979. Now serving much of Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson Counties, it provides hospice care, in-home primary care for homebound seniors, and free Transitions support for people facing serious illness, plus grief support open to anyone in the community, special care for veterans, and the Pet Peace of Mind program that cares for patients' pets.
Trained 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. Others help with the Pet Peace of Mind program, community events like the Festival of Trees and Light Up a Life, Camp Sunrise for grieving kids, and office work. No medical background is needed; training is provided.
Kiwanis Club of Madras
also known as Madras Kiwanis
Madras's Kiwanis club, serving children across Jefferson County. Its signature program is Operation Rudolph, the county's primary Christmas gift program for kids facing hardship, run with the Madras High Key Club. The club also supports youth programs and scholarships throughout the year.
The biggest volunteer effort is Operation Rudolph each holiday season: collecting toys from drop boxes, shopping, and wrapping hundreds of gifts at the fairgrounds, with drop-in wrapping open to individuals, families, and groups. Members also support the Madras High Key Club and other youth projects through the year.
Jefferson County's primary Christmas gift program for kids facing hardship, run for 30+ years by the Madras Kiwanis Club and the Madras High Key Club. Working with Oregon DHS so each family is served once, Operation Rudolph brings gifts to roughly 200 families and 450–600 children a year, from Crooked River Ranch to Warm Springs. With Toys for Tots no longer operating in Central Oregon, the need has grown.
Volunteers wrap hundreds of gifts at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in December, with drop-in wrapping open to individuals, families, school leadership classes, and groups. Businesses can host gift-tag trees or toy drop boxes, and helpers collect donations from drop sites, shop, sort, and deliver gifts to families.
Crooked River Ranch Lions Club
also known as CRR Lions
Oregon's largest Lions Club, entirely volunteer-run and serving Crooked River Ranch for more than 45 years. With no administrative costs, everything raised, largely through its community bottle and can recycling program, goes back to local and regional projects, including school vision screenings and a medical equipment loan closet for residents.
Volunteers run the ranch-wide bottle and can recycling program that funds the club, staff the medical equipment loan shed that lends hospital equipment to neighbors, give vision screenings in schools across the region, and help with fun community fundraisers like the annual golf tournament. It's a great way to meet people on the Ranch.
St. Vincent de Paul Redmond serves people in poverty and experiencing homelessness across the Redmond School District area, including Redmond, Terrebonne, Crooked River Ranch, and Tumalo. From its home on SW Veterans Way it runs a food pantry, rent and utility assistance, and vouchers for clothing, outdoor living gear, and household goods, funded in large part by its thrift store, with help offered person to person and with dignity and confidentiality.
Volunteers keep the food pantry, voucher room, and thrift store running: stocking and distributing food, sorting and pricing donated clothing and household goods, helping shoppers, and supporting social services. Even two hours a week makes a real difference.
Crooked River Ranch Volunteer Fire Association
also known as Crooked River Ranch Fire & Rescue
The Crooked River Ranch Volunteer Fire Association supports the volunteers of Crooked River Ranch Fire & Rescue, which serves the Ranch with structural and wildland firefighting, emergency medical services, and technical rescue alongside career staff. The association backs its volunteer firefighters through training and community events like the station's annual pancake breakfast.
Volunteers join Crooked River Ranch Fire & Rescue as firefighters and EMS responders, training in fire suppression, rescue, and patient care, operating hoses, pumps, and apparatus, and helping maintain equipment and facilities. Others help with the district's administrative work or join the Crooked River Ranch CERT team to support neighbors during emergencies. Training is provided.
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