Volunteer Opportunities
Here are some organizations where students have had meaningful and rewarding volunteer experiences while contributing to their community.
Local Volunteer Opportunities in Bend, Oregon
Humane Society of Central Oregon: Tales for Tails Reading Program
Street Dog Hero: youth volunteer opportunities, working to build a community of youth that are knowledgeable, passionate, and driven to make the world a better place for dogs and communities in need.
Furnish Hope: furnishing homes for hundreds of families in need throughout Central Oregon each year.
Ronald McDonald House Bend: many volunteer opportunities from being welcoming faces and answering phones, to preparing meals, leading activities, supporting events.
St. Charles Health System: many volunteer opportunities
Council on Aging: includes Meals on Wheels, Pet Pals and other volunteer opportunities
Family Kitchen: most shifts include prep, cooking, making meals (both to go and dine-in), serving, and cleaning up.
Healing Reins: side walking, facilities, horse leader, events, administrative
Bethlehem Inn: meal prep and other opportunities (also, meal prep from home)
Virtual Volunteer Opportunities
Best Buddies e-Buddies: e-Buddies creates social inclusion and friendships for people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in a virtual space.
Operation Gratitude: Operation Gratitude includes handwritten letters in every Care Package sent to our Deployed Troops, Recruit Graduates, Veterans, Caregivers, and First Responders.
Learn To Be Volunteer Tutor: opportunities for high schoolers to teach students online from any location with flexible scheduling that you control.
Instant Wild: take part in vital conservation work, bringing you LIVE images and videos from amazing locations all around the world. By identifying the animals in each image, you are contributing to conservation and making a positive impact on the future for wildlife.
Be My Eyes: provides the world’s largest online community of people who are blind or have low vision with seamless access to real-time visual assistance.
Love For Our Elders: mission is to alleviate social isolation among older adults through handwritten letters and inter-generational connections.
UPchieve Volunteer: volunteer as a tutor and help over 60,000 underserved students succeed in school and beyond.
NASA Citizen Science: volunteers and amateurs have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. These projects are open to everyone (no citizenship required).