Each year, corporate groups volunteer their time to collect, pack and process millions of pounds of food for the Oregon Food Bank (OFB) — and recently, our team of attorneys,staff, and friends did their part to support this organization’s important efforts.
Oregon has seen record increases in the need for emergency food boxes. Statewide emergency food box distribution has increased more than 9 percent over the previous year, and has increased a whopping 41% since the beginning of the recession in 2008. This represents 270,000 people per month — a number that represents more than half of the City of Portland’s population.
To support OFB, our team held an after-hours volunteer session at the Volunteer Action Center, where we packed 15,392 pounds of food. This represents 12,827 meals, and 366 meals per volunteer. Now those are some stats we can get excited about!
OFB welcomes volunteers as individuals, families or as part of a corporate, community or service group. For details, check out OFB’s website.
