Year: 2013

Location: Portland, OR
Area of Interest: Social Services
Project: Food to Schools Program Expansion
Year: 2013
Impact
The Food to Schools program brings food to more than 50 food-insecure families in each of over twelve schools during the school year and at least seven during the summer. The addition of a refrigerated van will increase weekly food delivery to 250 additional families and reach more hungry children. In addition, food can be gathered more from the source and kept fresh longer. The purchase of the refrigerated van has made it possible to better serve the schools throughout the school year and into the summer months with ‘Free Farmers Markets’, as well as making deliveries to the low-income housing where students live.