Volunteer opportunities in Bend, Oregon
Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach, Inc.
also known as COVO, Central Oregon Veterans Outreach
About Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach, Inc.
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. Today it serves veterans and non-veterans experiencing homelessness with weekly camp outreach, a walk-in Outreach Center, a mobile medical clinic, help with VA benefits and housing programs, and transitional housing.
Volunteering looks like
Volunteers 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. Others staff the walk-in Outreach Center, sort and distribute donations, support the mobile medical van (medical professionals welcome), and help at events. Groups can run supply drives.
Who can volunteer
Focus areas
Where it serves
Populations served
- Veterans
Classification
- Nonprofit
Age and population categories follow Candid's
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