FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 Hunger in Lane County More Than One in Three Lane County Residents Experience Food Insecurity Food insecurity is a lack of access, at times, to Why do people experience food insecurity? enough food for an healthy lifestyle. Too often • Fixed income • Minimal or no benefits this means a difficult trade-off between important • Underemployment • Chronic illness basic needs such as medical care, housing, or • Lack of affordable housing • Student loan debt transportation, and nutritiously adequate foods. • Cost of childcare • Medical bills OREGON’S FOOD INSECURITY AMONG NATION’S HIGHEST 43% OF LANE COUNTY HOUSEHOLDS STRUGGLE TO MEET BASIC NEEDS FOOD INSECURITY RANK: 6TH WORST IN LANE COUNTY SCHOOLS, 53% OF CHILDREN WERE ELIGIBLE FOR FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES IN 2017 Source: Oregon Center for Public Policy analysis of USDA data Source: United Way of Lane County, Jan., 2016 2 OUR MISSION: ALLEVIATE HUNGER BY CREATING ACCESS TO FOOD We are a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 food bank and accomplish our mission by soliciting, collecting, rescuing, growing, preparing and packing food for distribution through a network of more than 150 partner agencies and distribution sites. FOOD for Lane County carries the operational expense of food banking and processing with no fees to community partner agencies. We have built our success on the ability to be agile and responsive to the community’s need since we were founded in 1984. As the second largest food bank in Oregon, we are a partner of both the Oregon Food Bank network and Feeding America, the national food bank collaborative. With only 62 employees, we rely on 77,500 hours of volunteer work equivalent to 37 FTE, a strong volunteer Board of Directors, and our community partner agencies to serve Lane County’s emergency food needs. We serve a population base of 369,519 people living within 4,722 square miles of urban and rural Lane County. Our stewardship has been recognized by Charity Navigator as a top-rated nonprofit. OUR MISSION To alleviate hunger by creating access to food OUR VISION To eliminate hunger in Lane County FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY PROGRAMS CEREAL FOR YOUTH MEALS ON WHEELS Provides nutritious, organic cereal to Friendly volunteers deliver a freshly children and teens prepared, nutritiously balanced, meal to seniors living in Eugene with time for a brief CHILDREN’S WEEKEND SNACK PACK visit and safety check Distributes snack kits for elementary school- aged children to take home on weekends MULTICULTURAL OUTREACH and vacations Employs a Multicultural Outreach Coordinator to work with community EXTRA HELPING partners cultivating dignity, respect and Provides a weekly supply of bread and open access produce for residents of low-income housing NUTRITION EDUCATION FAMILY DINNER PROGRAM Through cooking classes, grocery store tours The Dining Room is a restaurant-style meal and outreach events site in downtown Eugene serving free hot dinners four nights a week PRODUCE PLUS Creates a farmer’s market experience with FOOD RESCUE EXPRESS (FREX) high-quality, free produce for people in need SERVING THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US Recovers prepared but unserved food from hospitals, schools and restaurants RURAL DELIVERY Financial support from donors allowed us to grow our capacity to serve to repackage into family-sized portions in Supplemental food delivery twice monthly to seniors in our community. This past year we added Meals on Wheels to FFLC’s commercial kitchen for distribution isolated rural communities our list of innovative programs, serving clients in the Eugene area. We also GRASSROOTS GARDEN & YOUTH FARM SENIOR GROCERY PROGRAM increased the number of seniors served by our Senior Grocery Program. On-site gardening, education and Provides a monthly food box of healthy workshops, while growing fresh, organic staples to low-income seniors Through programs like these, we are helping more seniors get the nutrition produce for FFLC distribution SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM they need while allowing more seniors to stay in their homes. Thank you for JOB TRAINING Serves nutritious meals to children five days helping us take care of those who took care of us. Two 12-week programs teach culinary and a week when the National School Lunch warehouse skills for job readiness Program is not in session 3 FOOD DONATIONS GIVING WHERE YOU LIVE From grapes to granola and canned soup to cantelope, we rely on food donations from a variety of sources, SCAN-a-Coupon raises thousands including wholesalers and retail grocery stores, farms, food drives, companies and individuals. More than of dollars each year for hunger 60% of the 8 million pounds we distributed last year came from local donors. It’s a vast and varied network of relief in Lane County. It is one of support that keeps our trucks on the road, food pantry shelves stocked and plates full. We are grateful for the the easiest ways to give where enthusiastic and generous support. you live, while supporting these stores that support FOOD for Lane County. Thank you to these Major Food Donors and Drives participating stores for their 104.7 KDUK Lane County Fair The GrassRoots Garden continued support of hunger relief Albertsons Lane County Home Show The Youth Farm in Lane County. Attune Foods/Post Linn-Benton Food Share Thistledown Farm Bi-Mart Lochmead Dairy Track Town Pizza SCAN-A-Coupon Partners Café Yumm! Lone Pine Farms True Value Foundation Capella Market Cash & Carry Luvo Umpqua Dairy Products, Inc Down to Earth Dollar Tree Marion-Polk Food Share University of Oregon Friendly Street Market East West Tea Company Market of Choice US Post Service The Kiva Emerald Fruit & Produce Co. McDonald Wholesale Co. Walmart Market of Choice Franz Bakery National Association of Letter Carriers WhiteWave Foods Ray’s Food Place Fred Meyer Natural Grocers Willamalane Park & Recreation District Sundance Natural Foods Frito-Lay Northwest/Bigfoot Vending WinCo Foods Georgia-Pacific Oregon Food Bank GloryBee Foods Oregon Ice Cream Company Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show Organically Grown Company Goodwill Oroweat - Bimbo Bakeries USA Grocery Outlet Pepperidge Farm Groundwork Organics PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Haggen Food Safeway Inland Empire Foods Spring Valley Dairy Johnson Vegetable Farms Springfield Creamery King Estate Winery Sweet Leaf Farm KVAL Target LaLoo’s Goat Milk Ice Cream The Epic Source Food Company 4 THE BUSINESS OF GIVING Imagination International Inc. NW Natural Kendall Auto Group Oregon Fuel Injection Companies of every shape and size KMTR Oregon Restaurant and have shown their commitment Level 32 Racing Lodging Association McClure Associates Oregon Taxi to easing hunger in Lane County. National Transport Oregon Urology Institute Our thanks go out to the hundreds Pacific Continental Bank Oregon’s Only more not listed here. The business PacificSource Health Plans Organically Grown Company community supports our efforts PakTech Overtime Tavern in so many ways — with cash Structural Integrity Associates Paradigm Engineering gifts, grants, volunteering, event Summit Benefit & Actuarial Services PeaceHealth sponsorships and food donations. Truist Phoenix Rising Wilson Sound and Lights Poppie Advertising Design There is not a FOOD for Lane Providence Health Plans County program that has not been Corporate Donors: $1,000–$2,499 Rennie’s Landing touched by corporate generosity. Reynolds Electric 5th Street Public Market Roehl & Yi Investment Advisors A Healing Space Royal Caribbean International Attune Foods Sittner and Nelson LLC B & H Upholstery Supply SSW Engineers Bank of the Cascades Stone Works International Bulk Handling Systems SYSCO Corporate Donors: $10,000+ Corporate Donors: $5,000–$9,999 CBT Nuggets The Jerry Brown Company American Medical Concepts Aurora Innovations Clay’s Refrigeration Toby’s Family Foods Bank of America CoBank Columbia Distributing Co. TravelCard Commercial Fueling Business Law Centre Essex General Construction Dari Mart Stores The UPS Store Café Yumm! Jerry’s Home Improvement Center Downwind Development VERITAS Software GloryBee Foods Jersey Mike’s Subs Environment Control Wells Fargo Advisors Hawes Financial Group Levi Strauss & Co. Fall Creek Farm & Nursery Western Pneumatics Integrated Labs Orchard View Farms First Tech Federal Credit Union Willamette Valley Co. King Estate Winery Parties To Go Fred Meyer Zion Ideas KVAL Peak Travel Group Grain Millers Murphy Company Slocum Center for Harrang Long Gary Rudnick PC Olsson Industrial Electric Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Jones & Roth QSL Print Communications Symantec Corporation KOHL’S SELCO Community Credit Union Whittier Wood Products Co. KPD Insurance SO Delicious Dairy Free Lochmead Dairy Sunrise Asian Food Market Corporate Donors: $2,500–$4,999 MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions Timber Products Company Alaska Airlines Madsen Well Drilling Umpqua Bank Bumble Graphics McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center Univera Serve First Cash & Carry Mountain Rose Herbs WhiteWave Foods Hamilton Construction Natural Grocers 5 A LEGACY OF GIVING Financial support from foundations and donor-advised funds are an investment in hunger relief. In return, we are good stewards of your gifts, dedicating 92 cents of every dollar to food distribution. Grants and donor-advised funds sustain critical emergency food programs, strengthen our county-wide network of food distribution partners, support programs that provide food for familes with children, allow us to provide for the most vulnerable among us, provide education and skill-building for