By connecting issues, people and organizations, the Coalition for a Livable Future empowers communities to take action together to shape the big decisions affecting the Portland region’s future.
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times.
The Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership (IFFP) is a project of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon's Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns. The mission of the program is to empower faith communities, farmers and neighborhoods to build urban-rural alliances and create innovative partnerships for just and sustainable food systems.
Food For Oregon: The Community Food Programs Database
Food for Oregon is a strategic partnership between Oregon Food Bank and Oregon State University Extension Service, providing a website that contains a searchable database of non-emergency community food programs in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Food Not Bombs shares free vegan and vegetarian meals with the hungry in over 1,000 cities around the world every week to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment.
Independence Gardens helps people grow food for themselves, their families, and their communities by building sustainable edible gardens: consulting, teaching, building, and assisting with maintenance of edible gardens. Founded in 2009 by two native Portlanders, Independence Gardens is a Native- and women-owned business. CCB#186008; Oregon Tilth Organic Land Care Professionals; EcoBiz.
Resources, Restaurants, Adult Education, Children, Teen Education, Educational Mission, Community Gardens, Individual, Family Plot, Landscape and Design, School Gardens, Learning/ Demonstration, Emergency Services, Food Security
Through their Urban Agriculture Services, Janus Youth Programs sponsors Village Gardens, a 56,000 square foot urban agriculture program that uses sustainable organic gardening and farming to increase access to healthy food, improve economic opportunities and build unity with low-income residents of North Portland.
Loaves & Fishes Centers is a nonprofit, secular organization that provides hot, nutritious meals to seniors 60 years and older.*** Mailing Address: Loaves & Fishes Centers, Inc., 7710 SW 31st Avenue, PO Box 19477, Portland, OR 97280-0477
Metro's database which lists Food rescue programs take surplus perishable and prepared food and distribute it to agencies that serve hungry people. *** Mailing Address: Metro Regional Center, 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland, OR
The Northeast Emergency Food Program (NEFP) meets the urgent food needs of North and Northeast residents while working to develop community solutions to secure access to adequate, affordable and healthy food. *** Mailing Address: Luther Memorial Lutheran Church, 4800 NE 72nd Ave., Portland, OR 97218
Oregon Food Bank (OFB) is the hub of a statewide network of 919 hunger-relief agencies, serving all of Oregon and Clark County in Washington. OFB recovers food from farmers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, individuals and government sources, and distributes that food to 20 regional food banks across Oregon. OFB also works to eliminate the root causes of hunger through advocacy, nutrition education, learning gardens and public education. *** Mailing Address: Oregon Food Bank, P.O. Box 55370, Portland, OR 97238-5370
The Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force works to collaborate with state agencies, businesses, non-profits, public officials and local communities to end hunger in Oregon.
The Portland Community Garden program supports 30 community gardens located throughout the city, developed and operated by volunteers and Portland Parks & Recreation staff, offering a variety of activities. The program includes habitat and demonstration sites, a children's gardening program, and donates garden produce to local hunger agencies.
Portland Fruit Tree Project empowers neighbors to share in the harvest and care of urban fruit trees, preventing waste, building community knowledge and resources, and creating sustainable, cost-free ways to obtain healthy, locally-grown food.
The Food Policy Council is a citizen-based advisory council to the City of Portland and Multnomah County that works to bring citizens and professionals together from the region to address issues regarding food access, land use planning issues, local food purchasing plans and many other policy initiatives in the current regional food system.
Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security
The RUAF Foundation aims to contribute to urban poverty reduction, employment generation and food security and to stimulate participatory city governance and improved urban environmental management.
Sisters Of The Road exists to build authentic relationships and alleviate the hunger of isolation in an atmosphere of nonviolence and gentle personalism that nurtures the whole individual, while seeking systemic solutions that reach the roots of homelessness and poverty to end them forever.
The Ten Rivers Food Web supports, educates and organizes farmers, processors, buyers, retailers and individuals to increase and diversify local food acreage, promote local food processing and expand access to affordable and nutritious foods. *** Contact Address: PO 2189, Corvallis, OR 97339-2189
The Food Trust strives to make healthy food available to all through various partnerships and a comprehensive approach that combines nutrition education and greater availability of affordable, healthy food.
Urban Gleaners is a small, volunteer organization that picks up edible food from farmers markets, restaurants, grocery stores, event sites and delivers it to local agencies that feed the hungry.
Well Fed World works to promote the benefits of sustainable, plant-based solutions in response to global food security, health, hunger, and environmental concerns, encourage NGOs, think tanks, social justice leaders, and government decisionmakers to include the benefits of plant-rich diets and reduced global meat consumption in their policies.
WHY is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.
