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Greetings!
Thank you for giving your time to help fight hunger.
Whether you volunteer by repacking food, working in
the Learning Garden, assisting with nutrition classes,
helping with events or special projects or giving
hunger a voice through advocacy or the speakers'
bureau, your work has a tremendous impact on OFB's
abillity to meet the needs of people who are hungry
in our communities.
This newsletter is another way to thank you, to
inform you and to recognize your work. We welcome
your feedback. Please send your comments to
e-news@oregonfoodbank.org. If you would like to
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| Volunteers needed after the holidays |
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"Thanks to a tremendous community response,
Oregon Food Bank's volunteer shifts are filled through
the holidays," says Leslie Sampson, OFB's volunteer
program manager. "However, Oregon Food Bank
needs volunteers year-round. We often see a drop in
volunteer support in January after the holidays."
Volunteers are needed in OFB's Volunteer
Action Center,
Perishables Repack Room and Fresh
Alliance
Program during the month of January.
To learn more about volunteering,
contact
sbrockmeier@oregonfoodbank.org. State which
program you would like to volunteer for. List your
contact information and the dates and times that
you are available. OFB will contact you to schedule a
volunteer shift.
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| Marilyn Young helps OFB provide fresh food to people who are hungry |
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?As a single mother, I was lucky to have a good job
that put food on the table for my family,? says
Marilyn Young, an Oregon Food Bank volunteer. ?It?s
hard to imagine working all day and still not being
able to afford enough food to feed your children.?
Young began volunteering for OFB?s Fresh Alliance
program to help ensure that people who are hungry
have access to meat, cheese, dairy and other
nutritious perishable foods. In addition to her work in
Fresh Alliance, she also volunteered with her
granddaughter in OFB's Learning Garden last summer.
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| Oregon's Strong Economy produces jobs, but many jobs pay too little to cover living costs |
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"It's a crime to work full time and still not be able
to afford to feed your children properly. The cost of
living does not match income."
-- food box
recipient in Salem
The area's economy has produced more jobs, but
many of those jobs don't pay enough to cover basic
living costs.
That's just one of many important findings of the
2006 Hunger Factors Assessment, a biennial survey
of emergency food box recipients, released during
Oregon Harvest Week/National Food Bank Week.
"The high cost of housing, health care, childcare and
fuel make it difficult for low-income individuals and
families to have enough to pay for food," says Rachel
Bristol, chief executive officer, Oregon Food Bank.
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| Support OFB during the holidays |
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Celebrate the holidays by helping to fight
hunger in Oregon and southwest Wash. There are
many creative ways to help.
Fill a bag with
nonperishable food and take it to your nearest Jiffy
Lube, Albertsons or U.S. Bank. Jiffy Lube will give you
$31 off a full year of oil changes for donating at
least
five nonperishable food items at any of its locations.
Come to the 12 Days of
Cricket Launch Party at Pioneer Square on
December 11 from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. to learn more
about Cricket Wireless and to benefit Oregon Food
Bank.
Share your feast this holiday season by donating
food or funds for Oregon Food Bank at any QFC
location. Contribute
$5 or $10, and QFC will
donate a
pre-made bag of groceries to Oregon Food Bank. Or
purchase and donate other nonperishable food items.
Stop by Whole Foods during December and
purchase a pre-made bag of groceries for $10, $15 or
$20 The bags are filled with nutritious food which
Whole Foods will donate to Oregon Food Bank.
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| Meet the volunteer program team |
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Read about Oregon Food Bank's Volunteer Program
staff members.
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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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Volunteers make a difference |
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Volunteers make a difference
Last year, Oregon Food Bank volunteers contributed
more than 74,500 hours to OFB for an
estimated value of $1,080,000, equivalent to
36 full time employees.
Volunteers in OFB's Maybelle Clark Macdonald
Volunteer Action Center, Portland General Electric
Perishables Repack Room and Fresh Alliance Program
processed and repacked 6.4-million pounds
of food last year.
Read more facts about OFB >
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