We’re People of Action
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Our Mission
The Story Behind Connect Central Oregon
What Tools Are In The CCO Toolbox?
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Our Values drive us in CIIRRCLES
CCO’S Guiding Principles for Impact:
Commitment to fostering active involvement and collective action to benefit the Central Oregon community.
Encouraging creative problem-solving and the adoption of forward-thinking strategies to address community challenges and enhance community impact.
Ensuring that everyone, regardless of background or ability, has the opportunity to contribute, benefit, and lead community initiatives.
Valuing every individual's contributions and perspectives, fostering an environment of mutual appreciation and understanding.
Embodying the strength to overcome challenges in the face of adversity, ensuring the community's needs are met with unwavering support and innovation.
Building strong partnerships for greater reach and effectiveness.
Nurturing the next generation of leaders through guidance and support.
Fostering strength and confidence within the community and among future leaders to enable them to take action and make impactful decisions.
Commitment to promoting practices and solutions that ensure long-term well-being and resilience of the community and environment.
Meet the Team
Connecting Central Oregon, by the numbers
Our measures of impact
Partner Nonprofits:
We proudly partner with over 200 fellow nonprofits on our volunteer.connectcentraloregon.org database, conveniently offering volunteer and board service opportunities across our partners in one spot.
Volunteers Connected:
With almost 4,000 active users on our database, volunteers are finding hundreds of hours of opportunities to serve. Our teams do active work to continue to attract new traffic and users to our database.
Community Partners:
We work with dozens of partners in the Central Oregon communities to amplify and empower efforts. Partners include local businesses, Chambers of Commerce, City and County offices, elected officials, fire and police, and more.
Intern Hours:
As part of leadership development, Connect Central Oregon offers internship programs to student interns to help them build real-life, applicable skills and earn college credits towards their credential all with experienced training.
Events Supported:
We plan, host, support, or partner on dozens of events annually, including rodeos, concerts, community events, and wherever we are needed.
Funds Raised:
We are proud to earn support for our partners to enable our mission and empower us to continue offering the tools and services our partners rely on us for. We also help nonprofit partners raise funds at some of our events.