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. 

April 7-25, 2025

Thank you for donating in the branches, over the phone, and online to the SMART Reading Branch Fundraiser. Your contributions stay right in your community, supporting the programs happening in your local schools.

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. Click below to donate securely online with your debit or credit card to support your local community's SMART programs.

 

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Community Involvement

Media Partners:

Fundraisers:

  • SMART Reading Branch Fundraiser—Our first-ever April 2024 branch fundraiser collected more than $5,900 to support volunteer-driven early literacy programs throughout Central Oregon. Looking forward to our 2025 impact.
  • Our annual Free Shred Day, in partnership with Republic Services, is the first Saturday after Tax Day.
  • Great Drake Park DUCK Race to benefit local non-profits that assist families and kids.
  • Supplies 4 Schools (August back-to-school supply drive in partnership with Family Access Network)—In 2024 Mid Oregon collected $1,709 and multiple bins of school supplies for local students during its annual Supplies 4 Schools fundraiser.
  • Holiday Dough Branch Fundraiser for local food charities—Raising nearly $4,300 in support from generous members like you for the 2024 holiday season!

Community Support:

  • Investments in local healthcare and education.
  • Grants, sponsorships and financial literacy education for organizations like COVO, Heart of Oregon Corps, and NeighborImpact.
  • Bite of Reality financial simulations, teaching important financial literacy and budgeting skills to high school and college students.
  • Sponsors of Free Family Day at the High Desert Museum—nearly 4,700 friends and neighbors attended our free days in January and February of 2025.
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Mid Oregon team members work with students from Crook County High School during a Bite of Reality financial decision making simulation
Mid Oregon staff members working with students from Crook County High School during a  Bite of Reality budgeting simulation. 
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