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Volunteer Opportunities in Terrebonne, 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.
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.
School of Ranch is a Terrebonne-based nonprofit that teaches practical rural living and heritage skills, from welding, irrigation, and tractor driving to livestock care, gardening, and soap making, through hands-on workshops led by skilled locals. It connects newcomers and longtime residents, and runs a paid internship where high school students manage marketing, publishing, and registration while earning school credit. In 2024 its workshops drew nearly 1,800 participants.
School of Ranch runs on skilled local instructors and paid high school interns. Community members get involved by helping at workshops, community potlucks, and events like its Repair Café partnership, and people with homestead, trade, or ranch skills can apply to teach a workshop.
The state agency managing Oregon's park system, including several Central Oregon parks (Smith Rock, Cove Palisades, Pilot Butte, Tumalo, and others) offering recreation, camping, and natural and cultural resource protection.
Oregon State Parks occasionally posts volunteer openings at Central Oregon parks such as Smith Rock, Cove Palisades, Pilot Butte, and Tumalo, including campground hosting, trail work, and visitor services. Openings vary by park and season.
Lil Bit Food Pantry is a small local nonprofit that packs food boxes and delivers them directly to families in need in the Terrebonne and Redmond area.
Volunteers help pack food boxes and deliver them to families in need.
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.
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.
Deschutes County Historical Society
also known as Deschutes Historical Museum
The Deschutes County Historical Society, founded in 1975, runs the Deschutes Historical Museum in downtown Bend's historic 1914 Reid School building. Its exhibits trace the region from Native American history and homesteading to logging, the Forest Service, and mountain biking, and it offers a public history library, oral histories, summer walking tours of Bend's historic neighborhoods, and the Hollinshead-Matson Homestead Museum in partnership with Bend Park & Recreation District.
Trained volunteers lead the museum's popular guided walking tours of Bend's historic neighborhoods each summer, greet visitors and staff the front desk and museum store, help care for and catalog the collections and research library, record oral histories, and support exhibits and community events.
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.
Trail Keepers of Oregon
also known as TKO
Trailkeepers of Oregon (TKO) is a statewide, volunteer-powered nonprofit that protects and enhances the Oregon hiking experience through trail building and maintenance, advocacy, outreach, and education. Started in 2007 by hikers who reopened an abandoned trail on Mount Hood, it now has thousands of members, runs the Oregonhikers.org field guide, and counts Central Oregon as a growing focus area, with ongoing stewardship at Smith Rock State Park.
In Central Oregon, TKO volunteers care for the trails at Smith Rock State Park, including the River Trail, Canyon Trail, and the Crooked River footbridge area, at regular Trail Parties, and help at the annual Smith Rock Spring Thing, which draws 200+ volunteers. No experience is needed; tools and training are provided, and TKO offers free chainsaw and crosscut saw certification. Other roles include Trail Ambassadors at trailheads and committee work.
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.
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