ABOUT US
At United Way of Central Oregon, we fight for the health, education, financial stability, and resilience of every person in our Central Oregon community.
We’re more than fundraisers. We’re changemakers.
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Strengthening Communities
Since 1953, United Way of Central Oregon has been strengthening communities in Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson Counties and investing locally in our community’s most needed programs and services while simultaneously strengthening our community.
We leverage more than dollars.
Yes, we are a local fundraiser and a local funder.
The money we raise stays here and serves this community. We partner with local nonprofits that address homelessness, child abuse, basic needs, and more through strategically invested grant funding.
We are also a convener, bringing together community leaders, government, other funders, nonprofits, and stakeholders, to collaborate and coordinate our efforts to effectively address our most complicated social issues. We are leading a Central Oregon-wide collective action effort to address the impacts of childhood trauma, and to build resilience.
We work to improve lives and foster a healthier Central Oregon in 4 main ways.
United Way of Central Oregon fights for the health, education, financial stability, and resilience of every person in our Central Oregon community.
These four areas are irretrievably bound to the success of every child, every individual, every family, every community, and every economy. They are interconnected and, when strategically addressed, conspire to create communities where all people thrive.
We are convening around imbalances and building a map forward, so that when today’s kids are tomorrow’s adults, they can thrive. We are moving upstream to address the root cause of issues that are immediate today, so that they don’t exist tomorrow.
We are investing in future solutions to the challenges that we have historically addressed through funding, such as basic needs, safety net, and prevention. While we will continue to address issues that are happening right now, we are simultaneously moving upstream to address the root causes of issues that are immediate today, so that they don’t exist tomorrow. Funding the immediate is necessary, but not sufficient.
Building on our 67-year tradition and assuming a strong role in convening and collaborating with our Central Oregon community allows us to address these root causes of critical issues affecting our community. We remain focused on our community’s human and social service needs to improve lives and create measurable, sustained change in our community.
Every year, we launch a community campaign to raise funds used to address the most pertinent, unmet needs of individuals and families in our Central Oregon community. This campaign includes not only companies and corporate leaders, but also employees from businesses and nonprofits all over our region, and from community members.
