We have a continuous needs list available here. This is a list of donation items we accept year round because they are needed in EVERY Disaster!
The Number 1 and MOST IMPORTANT need that we always need are Prayer Warriors. Please like and follow our Facebook page. We post on this page every time we need our Prayer Warriors to pray for something specific.
- For Local Evacuation Assistance
You will be called on to help evacuate animals in your area. This could be anything from Horses and Cattle to Cats and Gerbils. We need people with the equipment required, experience in loading difficult animals, or even just a big heart! You can help! It is more efficient to call a neighbor with a 4 horse trailer to go load 3 Alpacas a mile down the road than to haul in a trailer from 6 hours away. When a Flood or Wildfire is looming, seconds matter!
- Search and Rescue Team Leader
We need coordinators local to each area that knows all of the specific roads and perils of a local area. Natural disasters can drastically alter the surface landscape, but people that were raised in an area know their home forests. We need you to direct and coordinate volunteers in the area to efficiently and quickly explain the “past the big rock and a left at the V tree” type directions.
- To Be a Donation Drop Point
The best volunteers for Donation Drop Points own or manage public businesses. We often use donated storage units, event rooms, or even Police Station type locations as drop points for donations. If everyone in a town is able to get their donations to one specific point, then our transport volunteers can swing through one location to load and deliver.
- To Transport Donations
We need volunteers with pickup trucks able to haul trailers. We have a few trailers in our fleet, but we also could always use more. You must have a valid driver license and current/active insurance to volunteer to transport donations. We also often have people ask us if we can send someone to pickup a donation from their home rather than them delivering it to one of our drop points.
- To Host a Distribution Center
These are usually needed after the Red Cross has packed up and the State/County is no longer assisting. These sites are usually set up and ran by volunteers. You are responsible for setting up the donations that are delivered to your location and for verifying that the people coming in to pickup donations are actually survivors of a disaster and actually in need. Basically, imagine a thrift store setup without requiring payments from the “shoppers”.
- To Assist with Fundraisers
We do everything we can to keep our administrative expenses as low as possible. We do not have employees and do not pay our volunteers. We would much rather someone donate a material item that is needed over money, but occasionally we do still need money to operate. The largest expense we incur is fuel cards for our volunteer drivers. Most of our volunteers have no problem donating a run, but if we are able to pay for their fuel then they are able to run 2, 3, or even 10 loads.
Most of our fundraisers involve selling tickets for raffles, hosting auctions, or events.
- For Logistics Assistance
We need people that can be on the phone coordinating and dispatching all of the other volunteers. A single semi load of hay donation can get very complicated if the donor is unable to simply deliver it where it needs to be. Lets say we have 3 donors in Harney County that want to donate hay to survivors in Medford. We have to coordinate a semi driver with a truck/trailer able to haul the load, loaders at each location to load up the hay, a destination distribution site, volunteers with proper equipment available to unload the driver, people and equipment available to load from the distribution site onto volunteer drivers trailers so it can then be delivered to the animals that actually need it. It is a complicated process that needs to have a coordinator that can connect all of the dots.
- Social Media Monitoring
We need keyboard warriors! We can not follow every single group and post to make sure no one is falling through the cracks. We already work with Red Cross, United Way, FEMA, VOAD, Salvation Army, and MANY MANY other organizations to make sure every need is met, but occasionally people in need fall through the cracks. These people will often turn to social media to try to get their needs met. We need people that can keep an eye out for these contact these people, vet them to make sure they are actually affected and in need, then make sure their needs are met. We do not want to waste resources by doubling up what other organizations, but we will make sure ALL needs are met if we have the ability!
- Firewood storage
We need efficient local areas that we can stack and store firewood until it is requested/needed. It doesn’t have to be a large area, just a secure area we can use.
- To Collect and/or Chop firewood
We area always looking for volunteers willing to get firewood for us. We are willing to offer community service letters to anyone that may need the hours. The middle of winter when the mountains have 15 feet of snow is not a good time to run out of firewood. We need people year round to be willing to help us stockpile so it is available when it is needed. This can be with your own equipment or ours. We prefer people with chainsaw operating experience, but we are willing to teach if you are willing to learn also.
- To Collect/Store Firefighter Supplies
The first 72 hours of a wildfire is fought by volunteers with minimal to no notice. Getting supplies to them is critical to ensuring these heroes are as comfortable as possible. They need these “creature comforts” and usually these supplies are not provided by their local firefighting volunteer stations. A list of what is always needed can be found here. We need people willing to collect and store these supplies until they are needed that way we already have them and can deliver them on day one the moment that they are needed!
- To Collect/Store Christmas Presents
We need people willing to collect and store Christmas presents for children survivors of disasters.
- Can/Bottle Drop Point or Collector
We are ALWAYS collecting cans and bottles! We need people who are willing to pickup these bags from the people willing to donate them, people willing to sort them by material type, and people willing to store them until we are able to get them turned in. We are able to turn them in directly with the current COVID restrictions, but this must be done in bulk. The best setup for this is a person with a pickup or SUV who can pickup from donors and store in a barn or shed of some sort. We try to make sure that the drop points and the storage points are two separate addresses for security purposes.
- Hay/Feed Transportation
We need Semi Drivers with trailers as well as 5th wheel or smaller flatbed trailers. Even if your trailer is not always available, it never hurts us to ask you if it is available for a specific day or time that we may need assistance moving hay. Our Executive Director is not opposed to throwing a bale of hay on top of her Kia, but that isn’t a very efficient mode of transportation!