May 13, 2013
House Agriculture Committee’s approximate $21 billion cut to SNAP will threaten children and families who are struggling with hunger.
Oregon Food Bank responded sharply today to a proposal from the House Agriculture Committee that would limit access to hunger-relief benefits during a time of unprecedented need in our region.
April 29, 2013
Help stamp out hunger. It’s easy. Simply place a bag of nonperishable food donations by your mailbox on the morning of Saturday, May 11, for the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive.
This is the one day of the year that everyone has the opportunity – with the help of letter carriers – to easily donate food to help families in need in their community.
April 26, 2013
Oregon Food Bank seeks volunteers to help make the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, Saturday, May 11, a rousing success to benefit people who are hungry in Oregon and southwest Washington.
April 24, 2013
Celebrating two decades as one of the world's most imaginative food charities, the Canstruction® exhibition and competition will invite Oregon’s top architecture, engineering, and construction firms to transform more than 35,000 cans of food into whimsical, wildly inventive sculptures at Pioneer Place in downtown Portland from April 22 to 28, 2013.
April 24, 2013
The “Help with the Basics” campaign sponsored by Northwest Natural Gas Company, dba NW Natural (NYSE:NWN), Oregon Food Bank and United Way of the Columbia-Willamette has raised $25,000 to help those less fortunate afford food, housing and heat.
April 19, 2013
Ford Motor Company Fund and Oregon Food Bank announced today a grant of $100,000 as part of the Ford Focus on Child Hunger campaign. The donation is one of six grants to food banks across the Pacific Northwest intended to address the growing issue of childhood hunger in this country.
"There is nothing more heart-wrenching than a child going hungry," said Bess Wills, dealer at Gresham Ford. "We are thankful that Ford Motor Company Fund is taking steps to address this growing problem and Gresham Ford is proud to support this effort.”
April 18, 2013
“If my mom wouldn’t have gotten these food boxes, we would have no food to live.” 8th grader
More than a hundred food bankers from every corner of Oregon converged on Salem today to deliver more than a thousand paper plates, each filled with a message from a constituent (see examples above) and to ask legislators to invest in the state’s partnership with the Oregon Food Bank Network through the Oregon Hunger Response Fund.
“It takes the commitment and resources of all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – to fight hunger in Oregon,” says Susannah Morgan, CEO, Oregon Food Bank.
April 12, 2013
Oregon Food Bank received a 2013 Innovation Award in food banking at the annual Feeding America Network Executive Directors' Forum this week in Nashville. Feeding America presents the award to the year’s most innovative programs from the 202 food banks across the nation in the Feeding America network.
April 2, 2013
March 28, 2013
Help KGW NewsChannel 8, Tillamook Cheese, U.S. Bank and participating local Toyota Dealers provide 600,000 pounds of essential food to the Oregon Food Bank Network during March.
Here's how: - Donate funds online.
- Purchase Tillamook cheese.
- Donate 10 or more cans of food at Toyota dealerships and receive $10 off a parts or service visit.
- Make a cash or food donation at any participating U.S. Bank.
- Purchase a $10 pre-filled bag of groceries at any participating Safeway Store.
