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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. Last year, volunteers came
together to contribute more than 74,500 hours to
Oregon Food Bank.
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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| Volunteer at the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival |
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We invite you to volunteer at the 20th anniversary of the
Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, presented by First
Tech Credit Union, Oregon Food
Bank's largest fundraiser, July 4 through 8, 2007.
You'll have fun, help fight hunger and hear the
greatest blues artists in the world.
More than more than 1,500 OFB volunteers are the
driving force behind the festival's success each year.
Volunteer in the Merchandise Booth.
Volunteer to help customers and to restock and
organize merchandise at the 2007 Safeway Waterfront
Blues Festival's merchandise
booth.
Qualifications:
- Customer service experience
- Age 18 and up
- Sign up in advance
- Must wear shoes with closed-toes and closed-
heels
- Must commit to the entire shift
- Must be comfortable standing for four hours
Shift times:
- 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.
- 6 to 10:30 p.m.
To sign up to volunteer in the merchandise booth,
e-mail
sbrockmeier@oregonfoodbank.org. State that
you
would like to volunteer for the 2007 Safeway
Waterfront
Blues Festival. Please include your full name,
address, phone number and emergency contact
information. OFB will contact you to schedule your
volunteer shift.
Be a gate volunteer.
Gate Volunteers work in teams of 10 to 20 people
at one of four entrances to Safeway Waterfront Blues
Festival. Gate Volunteers request and accept
donations of food and money. The amount of
donations Oregon Food Bank raises at the festival
depends on the enthusiasm of our Gate Volunteers.
Gate Volunteers also box food, give directions and
serve as Oregon Food Bank's goodwill ambassadors.
Qualifications:
- Enthusiasm!
- Age 16 and up
- Sign up in advance
- Must wear close toed and closed heeled
shoes
- Must commit to entire shift
- Must be comfortable working outdoors, on uneven
ground in varied weather conditions
Shift times:
- 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.
- 6 to 10 p.m.
To sign up to volunteer at the gate, please register at
http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com
Find answers to frequently asked questions about
volunteering at the Safeway Waterfront Blues
Festival.
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| Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival celebrates 20 years of fighting hunger |
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Celebrate 20 years of blues, community and fighting
hunger at the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival,
presented by First Tech Credit Union, July 4 to 8,
2007, at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
The festival's four stages will feature more than 125
artist performances, including:
- The Neville Brothers,
presented by First Tech Credit Union
- Koko Taylor
- Pinetop Perkins
- Marcia Ball, presented
by iQ Credit
Union
- Mavis Staples,
presented by FedEx Freight
- Watermelon Slim,
presented by Good Neighbor
Pharmacy
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- James Cotton Band with
special guest Hubert Sumlin
- Eric Burdon and the
Animals
- the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- Steve Lucky and the
Rhumba Bums
- Dan Hicks and the Hot
Licks
- and many more.
And don't miss the festival's educational
workshops; nine afternoon and evening DME Blues Cruises on the
Willamette River; Reel Blues, a series of
after-concert, outdoor blues films; after-concert
dances; more activities for kids than ever before;
spectacular
fireworks on July 4; and much, much more.
Admission is free for volunteers on the day of their
volunteer shift. Otherwise, admission is a donation of
$8 and two cans of food
per person, per day. Or purchase a five-day festival
grounds pass
for $25 through Ticketswest. All festival
admission donations directly benefit OFB's mission to
eliminate hunger and its root causes ... because
no one should be hungry. For every dollar
donation, OFB can collect and distribute $7 worth of
food.
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cruises >
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Oregon Food Bank is an affiliate of America's Second
Harvest-The Nation's Food Bank Network.
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Letter Carriers Food Drive breaks record |
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Letter Carriers Food Drive breaks record
Thank you! More than 300 OFB volunteers helped
make this year's National Association of Letter
Carriers Food Drive a record-breaking success!
Thanks to your efforts, the hard work of letter carriers
and the generosity of postal customers, the National
Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive raised more
than 1.6-million pounds of food statewide and almost
700,000 pounds of food in the Portland area alone.
That's an increase of 18 percent over last year's totals
and a new record for the drive.
Read more >
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