Central Oregon Volunteer Connect — First Access
Central Oregon Volunteer Connect is the regional volunteer platform connecting organizations and volunteers across Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson Counties, and the Warm Springs region. For more than twenty years, it has been the infrastructure behind how Central Oregon shows up to serve.
This spring, the platform is being upgraded. The current volunteer platform concludes on April 30, 2026. On May 1, 2026, a new and significantly improved platform becomes the sole home for Central Oregon Volunteer Connect.
What is First Access?
First Access members are already inside. Central Oregon Volunteer Connect is live in preview, and an early group of community members are exploring the new platform, finding opportunities, and helping us shape it as we build it live with the community.
Onboarding is in progress. First Access members will have full access ahead of National Volunteer Week, April 19–25.
First Access runs throughout April. If you’d like to be considered for the remaining spots, send an email to volunteer@connectcentraloregon.org with the subject line “First Access Request” — or click the button below. We’ll be in touch with access instructions.
Twenty-two years ago, Central Oregon Volunteer Connect launched with a simple idea: that the organizations serving this region should be visible, connected, and supported. What you have built since then — the relationships, the programs, the thousands of volunteer hours directed where they are needed most — is the ecosystem we always believed Central Oregon deserved.
That ecosystem has matured. And with that maturity comes both an opportunity and a responsibility to strengthen the infrastructure beneath it.
We are grateful you are here, and we look forward to what we build together.
Scot Brees
Founder, Connect Central Oregon