Welcome to the Oregon Treasury Savings Network’s county information website. This website contains information about the college savings activity in every Oregon County. The Network was created to increase the ability of Oregonians to save for future higher education expenses through the Oregon College Savings Plan (OCSP). It is a unique investment tool that provides state and federal tax advantages and more flexibility than many other college savings vehicles. For more information, visit www.oregoncollegesavings.com.

Children with college savings accounts like the OCSP have greater college expectations:

  • Kids who know they have a college savings account (even a small one) are 2.5 times more likely to go and graduate from college.

  • In fact, low- to moderate-income children with under $500 saved for college are 3 times more likely to go to college and 4.5 times more likely to graduate.

Be College Ready for 2020-2021

The start of this upcoming school year will be a new experience for everyone, so we have decided that we will hold off mailing our free Be College Ready materials until later this fall. Traditionally, we have delivered these materials a couple of weeks before the start of the school year in mid-August. However, this year we believe it makes more sense to deliver these materials after Thanksgiving. During the first week of December 2020 every public elementary school will receive free Be College Ready kits for their kindergarten students that will include:

  • Homework folders, an informational brochure, a bookmark, a Kinder Grad flier explaining the matching program for kindergartner parents and a flier letting families know about our $100 sweepstakes for the 2020-2021 school year. Pencils will also be sent for each kindergartener and they can be given to them when distributing the folders.

  • Spanish versions of the Be College Ready kits will be included based on the number of Spanish kindergarteners enrolled at your school during the 2019-2020 school year.

By delaying the delivery of these materials, we believe we are giving schools enough time to adjust to the “new normal” of the 2020-2021 school year. That being said, if there are schools/school districts that would like to receive these materials before the start of the school year and/or before Thanksgiving you can still visit our website at https://becollegeready.net/materials.php to order materials.

The Be College Ready program and its website will be open starting August 17th. Not only will schools be able to order materials, but parents will be able to enter our Cash for College Sweepstakes at https://becollegeready.net/cash-for-college.php and the chance to win $100 for an Oregon College Savings Plan account. It is important to keep in mind that elementary schools will be able to order Be College Ready kits for the entire school population and that every elementary parent will once again have the chance to win $100.

If you have any questions about the program please call 503-373-1903.