DONOR IMPACT REPORT 2018 As I write this letter, my heart is hopeful. I have 350 clinics across and was adopted been a food banker for 22 years, and throughout nationwide by the Veterans Health System. this time the rates of hunger have risen and This year, fresh fruits and vegetables comprised steadied and risen again — always trending toward 24% of all the food flowing through the Oregon more and more hunger. But this year, for the first Food Bank Network, much of which was distributed time in my career, hunger in Oregon is decreasing. at outdoor Free Food Markets, allowing us to Let’s celebrate! We are winning! support some of the most vulnerable in our society.

My heart is also determined. Even as I rejoice, I My heart is yearning for the day when hunger is remember that nearly 13% of our neighbors in a distant memory — and I believe we will live Oregon and Clark County, Washington still worry to see that day. Why? Because we hold people about feeding themselves and their families — and experiencing hunger in the center of all we do. that the rate of hunger is still higher than it was Because we acknowledge and collaborate despite before the Great Recession. Our lead on hunger is differences — geographic differences, political small and fragile. differences, racial differences, linguistic differences. Because the Oregon Food Bank Network is unique My heart is also proud of the work the Oregon Food and unmatched with 21 regional food banks and Bank Network has accomplished in partnership with more than 1,200 partner programs serving our donors like you. neighbors experiencing hunger.

This year, we opened the Columbia Gorge Food Bank But especially because Oregon Food Bank is only as in The Dalles and began the collaborative work of powerful as the community that supports us — and seeding new food assistance programs. Just one day our community is powerful beyond measure. Thank after wildfires spread through Wasco and Sherman you for your passion, your commitment, your counties, we opened a new food pantry in Rufus, investment — and for believing with us that no one a tiny community located at the base of the John should be hungry. Day Dam, because hunger doesn’t belong in rural Oregon either. Susannah Morgan

This year, our Screen and Intervene THANK YOU program — through which people visiting health clinics are screened for food insecurity — reached Chief Executive Officer ­­– Susannah Morgan, CEO 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE were screened for food insecurity by their doctor

7,446 SUPPORTERS 2,974 PEOPLE signed on to protect participated in our SNAP benefits gardening and nutrition education classes

40,000 VOLUNTEERS donated 201,513 2017 was our biggest year yet hours of service

Together, we distributed 74 million pounds of food to 260,000 individuals accessing services each month and increased the amount of fresh produce we move by 84% compared to just five years ago. Here’s some additional highlights we are proud to share with you. Flor’s story

“I came here the first time, to the food bank, in help her neighbors this way, many of whom are 2001,” says Flor. “I remember because that’s working mothers. She also likes giving back. Flor when my husband had the car accident and, at often volunteers at the food bank near her home. that time, he was the only person that worked.” Flor recalls she was pregnant and caring for a “I just try to help my Latino community because I toddler at the time of the accident, and that’s know a lot of people when they come here, they when a neighbor suggested visiting the food feel embarrassed,” she explains. “That’s why I bank. “That helped us a lot because that way try to help… because I received help before.” we could use our money to go to the doctor.” Flor’s story is an example of how Oregon Food Her children are teenagers now, working and Bank is building community and nurturing attending school, but she says it can be tough people-centered food assistance, in which because of how much they eat! “And especially it doesn’t matter if you are on the giving or because their friends feel comfortable coming to receiving side of the table. At the food bank, she my apartment and they expect that I am going to says, “It feels like you have a really big family feed them all,” says Flor. She likes being able to here in town.”

“I help because I received help before.” Free Food Markets offer a hand up

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, as we discovered Oregon Food Bank operated 34 Free Food this year with the launch of our new Free Food Markets in the Portland Metro area alone this Markets, which consolidated several existing past year, and future locations will include community food programs under this new moniker. Clackamas County, Welches/Mt. Hood and Our goal with Free Food Markets is to ensure Damascus. Our target is to provide as much that people have equitable access to the type as 10 pounds of fresh produce per family of food assistance they need, when and where member, as well as pantry staples that can they need it — knitting together food distribution transform produce into culturally appropriate with opportunities for social inclusion and meals — items such as rice, cooking oil and community building. canned tomatoes.

Our Free Food Markets allow us to provide food We know that fresh produce is expensive and to Oregon’s most vulnerable populations in not always easily available, especially in rural areas where gaps in services leave underserved communities and food deserts. As one Free Food communities at high risk of hunger. The programs Market attendee shares with us, “Sometimes require very little infrastructure to operate and are people fall in the cracks and just need a hand open to all — think pop-up farmers market with up. I don’t know what I’d do without this place.” plentiful fresh produce available to communities speaking Chinese, Spanish, Russian and a myriad of other languages. Coming together in the kitchen

Even if you’re the one stuck doing the dishes and your family. It’s a wonderful opportunity for afterward, there is a deeply rooted comfort bonding and connections too. The course creates that comes with the daily ritual of gathering, opportunities for social inclusion and social preparing and consuming food. Since 1999, capital — for friendships to be forged. Oregon Food Bank has partnered with the national anti-hunger organization Share Our “Bit by bit, the class is expanding my Strength and numerous community partners consciousness about food, cooking and life,” to implement hands-on cooking and nutrition says a recent participant. “The class has opened education courses for more than 9,500 people my eyes to other ways of thinking and doing using the Cooking Matters® curriculum. things in the kitchen.” Sustained growth of the program over the years means we’re now teaching Cooking Matters in This past year, we established two remarkable 62% of the communities served by Oregon Food new partnerships to bring this programming to Bank and the Oregon Food Bank Network. vulnerable populations: the Hacienda Community Development Coalition, serving low In just six weeks, participants learn critical skills income Latinx families; and the Imani Center, that promote a healthy lifestyle: how to prepare a program of Central City Concern that provides food in your kitchen, what to buy at the grocery mental health and addiction treatment for store, how to make nutritious choices for yourself African Americans.

It’s donors like you who bring confidence-building programs to communities across the state. “I was brought up to believe that we are responsible for helping those around us.”

Because I know what it’s like

A monthly sustaining donor since 2002, Norma Supporting the food bank is also personal for Silliman volunteered with us for the first time Norma. “I was brought up to believe that we are this past spring. “I knew that Oregon Food Bank responsible for helping those around us,” she did a lot, but it wasn’t until I was there that I says. “Hunger and homelessness are priorities for realized how much!” She was impressed with the me, so that’s where I give.” When her children cooking, gardening and nutrition classes, as well were young, Norma went through a divorce as the diverse support from individuals, farmers and needed assistance to get by until she got and the food industry. back on her feet. “I know what it’s like to not know how you are going to support yourself and In her work as a registered nurse, Norma trains your family.” care givers and home health aides for people who are elderly or disabled. “Being a nurse I see the Oregon Food Bank’s monthly sustainers donated long term effects of poverty and I understand an incredible $1,364,521 during our last fiscal why good nutrition is so important.” year. Thank you! Corporate volunteers make a big difference

Corporate volunteer groups gave more than First Tech Federal ’s Riane Sherman, 30,000 hours of their time to help repack who has chalked up more than 440 volunteer IMAGE PLACEHOLDER food or work in our gardens this past year, and hours with us over the last five years, tells us, “I we couldn’t be more grateful. Many of these give back because I love it.” She adds, “We’re important partners also support us by hosting food all a community, and we have to take care of and fund drives or workplace giving programs. each other.”

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Contact Jill Beidler, Associate Director of Development at 503.439.1950 or [email protected] for bequest information or other options for including Oregon Food Bank in your estate plan. 2017-2018 Donors

ORGANIZATIONS Enterprise Holdings Foundation Feeding America, thanks to Darden The Rosebraugh Charitable Trust Moda Health BMWC Constructors Philanthropic Fund, FedEx Feeding America, thanks to IKEA The Swigert Warren Foundation Northwest Grocers a fund of The Indianapolis Foundation $100,000+ Feeding America Feeding America, thanks to Subway TriMet OEG, Inc. Boeing Employee Company Fund Daimler Trucks North America LLC Hampton Affiliates Feeding America, thanks to The TJX United Parcel Service ON Semiconductor Buckeye Pacific, LLC Feeding America, on behalf of Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation Companies, Inc. Walsh Construction Company PECO, Inc. Butler Partners & Associates, LLC First Tech Federal Credit Union Kaiser Permanente Gilead Wells Fargo Photon Kinetics, Inc. Campari America Ford Motor Company Lamb Weston Inc Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Wheeler Foundation Propel Insurance Capstone Partners Stores Willamette Whitaker Ellis Regal Entertainment Group CarMax Jerry G. Jones Trust OnPoint Credit Union Hayes Family Foundation WinCo Foods Foundation Inc Ruthie & Olive Carpenters Local 1503 M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Pioneer Waterproofing Company, Inc. Holman Automotive Sea Cuisine Cascade Rubber Products, Inc. Meyer Memorial Trust Prometheus Real Estate IQ Credit Union $5,000 - $9,999 So Delicious Cascade Zydeco Oregon Department of Human Services Industries Jay & Diane Zidell Charitable Foundation Bloomberg LP Stoel Rives LLP Attorneys at Law CH Murphy || Clark-Ullman, Inc. Oregon State University, Extension Family & StayWell Juan Young Trust Boeing Company SuperValu Foundation Charis Fund Community Health Sysco Portland KeyBank C.R. England Terwilliger Plaza Chevron Humankind Portland Children’s Levy Tektronix, Inc. Lamb-Baldwin Foundation Caring Ambassadors Program, Inc. The Maplewood Foundation City of Hillsboro RMF Foundation Land O’Lakes Foundation Cascadia Foundation TOSA Foundation Clackamas County Tourism & Cultural Affairs Safeway, Inc. Market of Choice Cinder LLC Tumac Lumber Company Fund of The Oregon Club Sunglass, Inc. Tillamook County Creamery Association $10,000 - $24,999 MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger Cisco Systems, Inc. Community Foundation Compass Oncology United States Department of Agriculture 2 Towns Ciderhouse Cochran, Inc. Tyco Electronics Country Mobile Estates LLC US Federal Emergency Management Agency American Family Company Newman’s Own Foundation Constellation Brands, Inc. UFCW Local 555 Craft Brew Alliance America’s Foods, Inc. Nordstrom Dermigraphics, LLC Umpqua Dairy Products Co. Davidson Companies $50,000 - $99,999 Ameriprise Financial Northwest Farm Credit Services Feeding America, thanks to Campbell’s Soup Unitus Community Credit Union Delta Fire, Inc. Columbia Distributing Company Anheuser Busch NW Natural Company US Bancorp Diesel Fuel Injection Service Genentech Foundation Avangrid Renewables Olive Bridge Fund Feeding America, thanks to The TJX Vera L. Smith Charitable Foundation Digimarc Harbourton Foundation AWS Elemental Olson & Jones Construction Foundation Vernier Software and Technology Disneyland Resort HEDCO Foundation B.P., Lester and Regina John Foundation Oregon State Society of Washington, D.C. Feeding America, thanks to Walmart LLC DoorDash Intel Corporation Bank of America Oregon State University Henningsen Cold Storage Vista Capital Partners, Inc. Earthtones, LLC Multnomah County Bates Catering, Inc. Pacific Foods Herbert A. Templeton Foundation Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc. eBay NIKE, Inc. Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council Pacific Power - PacifiCorp Highgrove Farms, LLC Walmart Electronics Manufacturing Association Olseth Family Foundation Chateau Ste. Michelle Princeton Property Management, Inc. Holzman Foundation Waste Management Epson Portland, Inc. Portland CoBank Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust Horn of Africa, Inc. Ernst & Young LLP Providence Health & Services Comcast Ruby Receptionists Ilani Casino Resort $1,000 - $4,999 Eugene C. Skourtes Foundation State of Oregon Department of Share Our Strength IRC Aluminum and Stainless 1961 Consulting Exterior & Interior Systems Local #146 Environmental Quality Dutch Bros Coffee Smart Foodservice JEZ Foundation adidas Farleigh Wada Witt The Standard E & J Gallo Winery Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits KPMG, LLP Alaska Airlines Farmers Ending Hunger East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation Charitable Fund Kwitman Family Foundation, Inc. .com Feeding America, thanks to BoxLunch $25,000 - $49,999 District The Autzen Foundation Lam Research Corporation Anonymous (6) Feeding America, thanks to Pampered Chef Applied Materials, Inc. Endeavour Capital The Coit Family Foundation Lamb Foundation Apple Inc. Feeding America, thanks to Sam’s Club Cambia Health Solutions ESCO Foundation The Ford Family Foundation Liberty Mutual Insurance Artists Repertory Theatre Firebox Wood Fired Pizza Cambia Health Solutions Fund of The Fat Schlags Sausage Maletis Beverage Autodesk, Inc. FLIR Systems, Inc. Oregon Community Foundation Feeding America, thanks to Bank of America The Jackson Foundation Marketing Concepts NW Avery Dennison Flynn Group of Companies Century Restaurants, Inc. Feeding America, thanks to The Oregon Community Foundation Maxim Integrated Products BEA Donor-Advised Fund Food Research & Action Center Delta Air Lines, Inc. Wholesale Corporation The Renaissance Foundation Merle & Ellen Morgan Gift Fund Bloodworks Northwest Form & Function 2017-2018 Donors CONTINUED

Fosseen Foundation Marley Brown Lumber Service Robert McMahon Fund of The Oregon Viewers Like You LLC Gretchen Baller Virgina MacDonald Foster Buds Marriott Business Council Community Foundation Walla Walla University School of Nursing - William and Susan Bartholomew Molly Mayhead and Ed Dover Google McKinstry Charitable Foundation Roth Staffing Companies Portland Campus Jim and Marg Berchtold Malcolm and Janeen McAninch Great Western Malting Co. MedConnect Pro LLC Rubber Resource, Inc. Washington County Bevely Bizzell Mr. and Mrs. William F. McGrath - Ontario Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. Salesforce Washington Federal Foundation Scott and Caroline Borduin Anita Kemm Charitable Trust GXI, Inc. Meng-Hannan Construction Co., Inc. Scenic Fruit Company Wieden + Kennedy Rhonda Butler Brad Mersereau Hamilton Zanze Mentor Graphics Foundation Schooner Creek Boat Works Willis Towers Watson Jeanne Carlson Merryl Mix Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Schwindt & Company Winthrop Music Association Theresa Cassidy Lorinda and Ray Moholt Hillsboro Presbyterian Church Midland, LLP Sheldon Oil Company, Inc. Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. Darryl Conser Warren Morgan & Mary Clifford Hindu Educational and Cultural Society of Miller Financial Group, LLC Shortlidge Charitable Trust Wyss Foundation Rebecca and Steve Daneman Linda Nelson America Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, LLP So Hum Foundation Yahoo! Ann P. Davis John and McKay Nutt Hoffman Corporation Milliman, Inc. St. Luke’s Community Health Zidell Marine Corporation Lynne deVries Robert E. and Natalie J. Osburn HP Mountain Home Auto Ranch St. Martin Parish Dennis Digman Mr. and Mrs. Raymond V. Packouz IKEA MV Marketing Stangier Wealth Management IN-KIND Marcia Dunham Kate and Keith Curwen Patterson Income Property Management Newell Business Services, Inc. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Jamie Ellgen Douglas Philips Inici Group, Inc. Northwest Fire Suppression, Inc. Subaru of America $10,000 - $24,999 Frances C. Erickson Janice Phillips Inspirators, Inc. Northwest Functional Neurology Sunshine Dairy Foods, Inc. Pacific Foods Jeffrey and Erin Bjorn Kathryn and David Polland Interface Engineering, Inc. NVIDIA Corporation Target R&H Construction Greg and Carol Flakus Mae Reeves Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation O’Callaghan Family Foundation Terrapin Events, Inc. Arnie Gardner Charlotte A. Rubin J. Beals Construction LLC OCHIN The Central National-Gottesman Foundation $5,000 - $9,999 Brian and Julie Gefroh Mary and Thomas Ruhl JH Kelly LLC Office Products Nationwide The Generations Fund Feeding America Sylvia M. Giustina Susan and Brad Schauer JLR Foundation Oldcastle Precast The Global Display Solution Kathy and Donald Grant David Schauer Johnstone Supply, Inc. Oregon Beverage Recycling The Joe W. & Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Mark Greenfield Barbara Scillian and Eugene Allison Judith and Edwin Cohen Foundation Oregon Section Institute of Food Technologists The Johnson Family Foundation Chateau Ste. Michelle Jeanette Hankins Gayle Semler JW World Resources Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters The Marketing Arm Lily and Jasmine’s Garden John Hembroff and Sharon MacDonald Julius and Alice Sigmund Kalberer Company Payette Washington County Board of Realtors The Oregon Project Sysco Portland Celeste A. Henry Olivia Lee Smith Kashi, Inc. Pelican Trading Company The Partners Group, Ltd. Purdy Corporation Dorthy Icard Dr. Joseph Soldati Kiwanis Club of Cedar Hills Peninsula Lodge #128 Independent Order of The Pew Charitable Trusts Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, Inc. Jennifer Johnson Anne N. Stacey Klarquist Sparkman LLP Odd Fellows The Richard Ham and Sam Wolsborn Foundation Sun Gold Farms Ron and Gayl Johnson Donna Storz Kohl’s Department Stores, Inc. Perkins Coie The Schooner Restaurant & Lounge Alaska Airlines Catha J. Loomis Jerome and Kathleen Taylor Lafayette Parish Convention and Visitors Pfizer The Wolf Family Charitable Foundation Widmer Brothers Brewing Philip A. Kalberer Nancy and David Tilford Commission Point West Credit Union Thug Design Inmar CLS Reverse Logistics Brenda Kame’enui Sami Tucker and Robert Crooks Lake Oswego United Church of Christ Portland Bottling Company Timmco Insurance, Inc. NorthWest Sound Studio Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Kelinson Richard Ukena and Jan Christenson Lane Powell PC Portland Trail Blazers Tim’s Cascade Snacks Craft Brew Alliance Jill Kelly Bill and Lila Ulrich Law Offices of Matthew H. Kehoe, LLC Precision Castparts Corporation Tonkon Torp LLP Owens-Illinois, Inc. Carol Elise King Gretchen Vannice Leslie Fund, Inc. PREM Group, Inc. Town & Country Animal Hospital 503 Media & Events Herbert O. Koenig William and Marjory Varitz Lhasa Trade Pride Recycling Company Tualatin Valley Water Penzeys Spices Loren “Bud” Kramer & Ann L. Kramer Liz and Larry Volchok Lightspeed Technologies, Inc. Quantum Spatial, Inc. TYR Wood Products Jacobsen Salt Co. Kristena A. Lamar Susan Wandrey Livingston Foundation Reel Theatre 8, LLC Uber Portland Judy Large Juanita Whitaker LNS Court Reporting Reichle, Inc. UBS Financial Services LEGACY CIRCLE Donald and Pamela Larson Karl E. Wiegers Mackenzie Reingold & Associates UnitedHealth Group Jack and Susan Lazareck Wendy Yorkshire MadeHere PDX Resource Systems Group, Inc. UTA Collection Marylou Alberdt Robert Lee Jim and Judith Atwood Youde Mahlum Architects Rex Hill Masonry, Inc. Valley Machine Rick Allen Patricia V. Leonard Mark Anthony Brands River Parishes Tourist Commission Verde Cocina Anonymous (16) Philip J. and Dianne M. 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