Business Partners

With nearly 200 volunteers, Financial Beginnings is truly a volunteer-driven, community-oriented organization. Financial Beginnings curriculum is enhanced by the career experience and personal knowledge of our volunteer teachers, many of whom work in or are retired from the finance, insurance or education industry. Volunteers teach Financial Beginnings' curriculum in the classroom, inspire students and serve as strong community role models. Please click here for more information on volunteer opportunities or to join our growing team of dedicated volunteers.


Financial Beginnings is proud to have the support of community organizations that encourage and support their employees to volunteer with Financial Beginnings and other organizations. Financial Beginnings extends a warm thank you to its volunteers employed by the following companies:

  • AGA
  • Alten Saiki & Co
  • Ameriprise
  • AXA Advisors, LLC
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of the Cascades
  • Bank of the West
  • Clearpoint Financial
  • Columbia Bank
  • Columbia County Extension Service
  • Country Financial
  • Department of Justice
  • Elephants Delicatessen
  • Financial Network Investment Corp.
  • Frontier
  • H&R Block
  • Intel
  • Lacamas Community Credit Union
  • LPL Financial
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  • Maps Credit Union
  • Northwest Investment Counselors
  • OnPoint Community Credit Union
  • OSU Extension Service
  • Point West Credit Union
  • Premier Mortgage Resources
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers
  • SSNW LLC
  • Strategic Group
  • Sunset Science Park Federal CU
  • The Standard
  • Umpqua Bank
  • US Bank
  • USDA-RD
  • VALIC Financial Advisors
  • VW Credit
  • Waddell & Reed
  • West Coast Bank


    • "Kudos to you and the Columbia River Bank team for creating an opportunity to share Financial Beginnings with our high school, Hood River Valley High. Your approach was fun and educational at the same time. Please know I appreciate your time away from your job and daily duties. To share information with our future bankers, check writers, savings account holders is forward thinking; and balancing their part time job wages to go a little farther by possibly grasping the idea of making a budget and spending wisely was a great concept to cover as well. Again, keep up the good work and please come again!!!"
      - Mrs. Barb Hosford, Teacher, Hood River Valley High