Tell Your Story

Your story is a powerful tool in fighting hunger and its root causes.

If you're not sure what to write about, you could tell us a story about your experience with any of the following issues:

• Accessing emergency food
• Losing your job in this tough economy
• Having trouble making ends meet
• Working for wages that don’t support your family
• Difficulty with medical bills 
• Difficulty affording rent
• Being homeless
• Being hurt by predatory banking, lending or business practices
• How you've benefited from community food systems like farm-to-school and community garden programs
• Difficulty accessing food or services where you live
• Living with a disability and waiting for SSI or SSDI benefits
• Challenges you've encountered as an Oregon or Clark County farmer 
• A time when cash assistance helped you get back on your feet
• How you've benefited from SNAP (food stamps), child nutrition programs (WIC, school breakfast and lunch, summer food, etc.) or WIC/senior farmers market coupons
• A memorable experience you had as an Oregon Food Bank advocate or volunteer