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Greetings!
?A lo dado no se le da fin.? -- Spanish Proverb
Translated: "What is given has no end."
Oregon Food Bank's volunteers help provide food to
people who are hungry.
Last year, 19,305 volunteers donated
63,097 hours through Oregon Food Bank's
Meyer Memorial Trust Building in
northeast Portland. They repacked and sorted more
than 5,267,875 pounds of food in the
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Volunteer Action Center
and the PGE Perishables Repack Room. That food
provided about 3.1 million meals to feed hungry
people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash.
Volunteers lead classes in our Nutrition Education
Program and Learning Garden. They give hunger a
voice through advocacy work and through OFB's
Speaker?s Bureau. They help in the office and at
numerous food drives and fund-raising events.
Volunteers impact every facet of OFB's work to
end hunger.
Your contribution of time and talent is vital. What
you have given has no end.
Mil Gracias,
Queta ?Q? González,
volunteer department manager,
Oregon Food Bank
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Looking for a new way to volunteer? OFB is recruiting
for new volunteer leadership positions.
- Do you want an active, hands-on volunteer
opportunity? Volunteer as a team leader to
sort
and inspect donated food as a part of OFB's salvage
program.
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| Jesse Reding recruits volunteers for OFB events |
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The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, National
Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive and Cans
Film Festival are all major OFB food drives. They
also have something else in common. Thanks to Jesse
Reding, teams of energetic Wells Fargo volunteers
help at all of these events.
?I volunteer because its fun,? Reding
says. ?Volunteering helped me connect to the
community and feel at home when I moved to
Portland. It?s the perfect way to meet people, learn
skills and have
new experiences.?
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| OFB Nutrition Education volunteers sweep national recipe contest |
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OFB?s creative nutrition education volunteers swept
Share Our Strength?s Operation Frontline national
recipe contest, winning three out of 10 prizes.
Linnette True?s Northwest Apple Salad,
Sharon Reese?s Orzo with Lentils and Tomatoes and
Jennifer Stacy?s Breakfast Polenta were tops in taste,
nutrition, cost and ease of preparation. The next
edition of Operation Frontline?s curriculum will include
their recipes. The curriculum teaches nutrition,
cooking and food-budgeting skills to low-income
individuals.
"I'm glad I can contribute to a great
program," says volunteer Sharon Reese (pictured
above.) "I hope my recipe will make it easier for
busy people to make a nutritious, home-cooked meal."
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| OFB volunteer provides a home for victims of hurricane Katrina |
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Jenkins picked up the keys to a new rental property
she had purchased right before hurricane
Katrina hit. She planned to find tenants to rent the
house to cover the mortgage on the property. But
after watching news coverage showing the
devastation of hurricane Katrina and the thousands
of evacuees who had lost everything in the storm,
she had a new plan for the house
?I decided to offer the house as shelter for a family
who had lost it'shome to hurricane Katrina," Jenkins
says. ?I wanted the family to stay, rent-free, for up
to six months to give the family members a chance to
get back on their feet again.?
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Oregon Food Bank is an affilate of America's Second
Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network.
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Fresh Alliance update |
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Volunteers needed for Fresh Alliance
Fresh Alliance is seeking dedicated volunteers who
can commit to a weekly shift. Choose the day that
works for you. Shifts are available on Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Oregon Food Bank is also creating a Fresh Alliance
fire squad. Volunteer coordinators will call fire squad
volunteers as needed to fill in for regular volunteers
when they are ill or on vacation.
To join the fire squad, send a message
to sbrockmeier@oregonfood
bank.org. Tell her you would like
to join the Fresh Alliance fire squad.
Learn
more about Fresh Alliance >
Register to volunteer >
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