Community Involvement

Involvement in our community is more than something we do… it’s who we are.

Your financed dollars keep working in Central Oregon. As a Mid Oregon Credit Union member, you are supporting local jobs and investing in local events and organizations. Mid Oregon supports many organizations through charitable giving and involvement. Employees also volunteer many hours to community projects and civic organizations every year in Central Oregon. 

Spring Fundraiser collected $5,900+ to benefit SMART Reading

First-year effort was huge success, thanks to our generous members!

Thank you for donating in the branches, over the phone, and online to Mid Oregon's first-ever SMART Reading Branch Fundraiser. A total of $5,937 was collected, which will stay right in the communities where it was donated, supporting the programs happening all over Central Oregon.

SMART Reading is a literacy nonprofit that serves kids in Oregon's highest-need schools and communities by providing two ingredients critical to literacy and learning success—shared reading time and books that students can keep. 

SMART Reading is reading with more than 1,000 students across 22 sites in Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, and Northern Klamath counties. By helping children build confidence, literacy skills, and a love of reading, they hope to reduce the negative ripple effects of illiteracy and help them realize their full potential. 

Members of our Mid Oregon team currently volunteer as SMART readers at local school sites, so we are proud to build on our partnership by supporting SMART Reading for our spring in-branch fundraiser. 

Community Involvement

Mid Oregon provides support, volunteer hours and sponsorship to a number of nonprofits and annual branch fundraisers, including:

 

  • Supplies 4 Schools (back-to-school supply drive in partnership with Family Access Network)
  • —Nearly $1,700 in cash, plus hundreds of pounds of donated school supplies raised in 2023. 
  •  Holiday Dough Branch Fundraiser for local food charities—more than $7,100 in support from generous members like you for the 2023 holiday season!
  •  Sponsors of Free Family Day at the High Desert Museum—more than 6,250 friends and neighbors attended our free days in January and February of 2023.
  •  SMART Reading Branch Fundraiser—Our first-ever April branch fundraiser collected more than $5,900 to support volunteer-driven early literacy programs throughout Central Oregon. 
  • Great Drake Park DUCK Race to benefit local non-profits that assist families and kids. 
  • Pay it Forward with KTVZ and our partners Dutch Bros. 
  • Our annual Free Shred Day, in partnership with Republic Services.
  • Grants, sponsorships and financial literacy education for organizations like COVO, Heart of Oregon Corps, and NeighborImpact
  • One Class at a Time  (School Donations)
  • Bite of Reality financial simulations, teaching important financial literacy and budgeting basics to high school and college students.
Mid Oregon team members work with students from Crook County High School during a Bite of Reality budgeting simulation
Mid Oregon staff members working with students from Crook County High School during a  recent Bite of Reality budgeting simulation. 
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