Corvallis and Benton county are home to people who care about their community and are active in improving it. They give hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial contributions to local charities, but they also volunteer in a wide range of activities from mentoring to giving blood. (Between 2005 and 2007, Oregon's 963,000 volunteers dedicated 139.4 million hours of service per year, ranking it 16th within the 50 states and Washington D.C. The estimated economic contribution of the volunteer hours served is $2.7 billion annually.)
In addition, the business community here makes countless in-kind donations (product donations for silent auctions and raffles), contributing a percentage of sales on a certain day to a specific organization, to conducting special event fundraisers.
In Benton County, there are over five hundred 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations - 510 to be exact. This includes: civic groups (20+), educational organizations (65+), environmental groups (30+), foundations and trusts (40+), and human service agencies (75+).
Whatever your passion, you can find it here!
United Way
Want to help families living below the poverty level? Want more of your neighbors to have access to health care? Want to change what you see in your neighborhood? You've come to the right place. Caring is good here...
LIVE UNITED.
IT'S A CREDO. A MISSION.
A GOAL.
It's a reminder that it takes all of us doing whatever we can to promote the building blocks of a good life for everyone - education, income, and health.
A quality education leads to a stable job; secure jobs assure enough income to support a family through retirement; and good health underpins it all.
United Way is working to advance the common good - it's less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us.
Our goal is to create lasting and measureable change improving the quality of life for individuals, seniors, the disabled, families and children.
Our vision is for a community...
- where people are committed to the well being of children
- where families are nurtured and supported and neighborhoods are safe
- where individuals are prepared to succeed in a complex, changing world, and a strong, diverse economy creates good jobs
- where all people see the possibilities for themselves and others, are healthy and living as independently as possible
- where diversity is embraced
- where people live and work together, encouraging and supporting one another
We invite you to be a part of the change by giving back what you can. United, we stand in the breach between the way things are and the way they could be.
Open your heart. Lend your muscle. Find your voice.
GIVE. ADVOCATE. VOLUNTEER.
Five ways to LIVE UNITED:
- Invite a friend, neighbor, family member to attend a school board meeting with you.
- If you and your friends have books you will never read again, organize a book drive and share the books with schools, libraries, nursing homes or a local hospital.
- Donate new or gently used professional clothing to an organization helping individuals who are seeking employment.
- Help senior citizens learn how to detect and prevent fraud.
- Help transport families or the elderly to necessary medical appointments.
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