Oregon Food Bank

Introducing Food for Action Dinners! What is a Food for Action Dinner? Invite your loved ones to gather and take action to end hunger. We'll provide a free downloadable toolkit and a Spotify playlist to set the mood. You'll eat good food, discuss the root causes of hunger and take meaningful steps to alleviate hunger from your dining room or backyard! Download your toolkit now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gUEVJVWa

Join us THIS SATURDAY for a beautiful community event in SE Portland! There will be delicious food and drinks, a cooking and gardening workshop, food boxes for the first 200 families, raffles and prizes! This event is hosted by Guerreras Latinas and Outgrowing Hunger. 🌱 Harvest Festival Schedule: 🗓️ Saturday, September 7 📍 835 SE 162nd Ave, Portland, OR 🍎 Food boxes for the first 200 families 🍲 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Food and drinks 👨🍳 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Cooking workshop 🌱 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Gardening workshop 🏆 Raffles and prizes Visit FoodForAllOR.org/Events to see other statewide events happening during Hunger Action Month!

Meet Itsa, the Associate Director of Equity, People and Administration at Oregon Food Bank. “Oregon Food Bank has made internal changes to continue to put the community that we serve at the forefront and to make them the priority. That really speaks to our mission. If we’re serving a community, and our goal is to be community-oriented, we need to lead with actions and not just words. Oregon Food Bank does that, and it’s a really beautiful thing.” Itsa’s story reminds us that food justice centers people in their daily, lived experience. It means that communities have power over our own food systems and that we are able to make decisions about what we grow, produce, distribute and consume. When we envision communities who never know hunger, we envision communities who can access food with safety and dignity. The Food for All Oregonians campaign envisions an Oregon where all people have access to food no matter where we’re born. Get involved this Hunger Action Month with Food for All Oregonians to increase food access. FoodForAllOR.org/Pledge.

This Hunger Action Month, join us in supporting Food for All Oregonians and advocating for food justice. If you believe food is a human right and want to create a more just food system for all Oregonians, go to FoodForAllOR.org/Pledge!

Do you know about Food for Action Dinners yet?! Host your own! https://lnkd.in/gUEVJVWa. Love seeing this, Marissa Gray, Natalie Kiyah, Sasia Reyes, Eliana Torero and Rose King!

Why is food a human right? Food is a human right because we need food to live. Everyone needs food to be healthy and thrive. We all have the right to food that is unrestricted, culturally-relevant, nourishing, dignified and fear-free. Learn more and get involved this Hunger Action Month at https://lnkd.in/g5zX9Z7W.

Did you know that more than 62,000 Oregonians are currently excluded from vital food assistance programs simply because of where they were born? But we can take action right now to guarantee Food for All Oregonians! Join the movement, pledge to support #FoodForAllOregonians at FoodForAllOR.org/Pledge.

Systemic barriers drive hunger and poverty in immigrant communities. Meet Eman Abbas. Eman is a community leader, an advocate, an immigrant, a mother and a proud supporter of Food for All Oregonians. Eman’s fluency in English helped her to navigate the system, though not without difficulty — and she saw how others in her community struggled or were effectively excluded from existing supports because of language barriers. Eman started a Facebook group to share available resources in the community — food distributions, state and local programs, and other nonprofit services. She translated each one into Arabic so everyone in her community could more easily access information. Eman's community advocacy continues to expand through ACCESS Oregon, Muslim Education Trust, Oregon Food Bank and more. "I support the Food for All campaign, because it will make sure that everybody has access to food that they eat, they want, and they know.” Join Eman this Hunger Action Month and pledge to support Food for All Oregonians: FoodForAllOR.org/Pledge.

September is Hunger Action Month! People across the country are joining together to help end hunger in various ways. At Oregon Food Bank, we believe food is a human right, and we call on you, our community, to take action this month and support Food for All Oregonians! Learn more about how to help end hunger at https://lnkd.in/gURb-hZ3, and join us!

“Stewarding this land with my family has been the greatest opportunity I’ve ever experienced,” Mia says. “Being able to raise our children knowing that they will learn how to tend and trust the earth, changes everything for me as a mother. It’s been such a leap into liberation to call this collectively Black owned land, our home and sanctuary – we are creating a powerful shift in what feeding our futures looks like.” Black Oregon Land Trust (BOLT) builds community power, making land access possible for Black farmers by securing and retaining affordable farmland and helping them establish their farms. Support BOLT to help farmers like Mia secure and preserve farmland for themselves and future generations: BlackOregonLandTrust.org.