Before leaving for its August recess, the House Budget Committee passed its budget resolution for the 2018 fiscal year, putting in danger the safety net programs that are successfully helping… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Action Alerts
Food for Lane County funding for Meals on Wheels in jeopardy
EUGENE, Ore. – In wake of the national proposed budget cuts, Food for Lane County plans to continue to service the elderly even if their funding is slashed. Organization officials… Read more »
Food drives and donations of nonperishable items
There have been a lot of posts circulating on social media recently about food banks not needing donations of non-perishable foods from food drives. Here’s what Brad Bassi, our Food… Read more »
Vote “YES” on Measure 20-239
Letter to the Editor, Register-Guard, Published May 6, 2016 FOOD For Lane County is always working to make sure no one in our community goes hungry. We partner with many… Read more »
Bill Increasing Child Hunger Needs to Go
From our colleagues at Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon … A U.S. House committee just proposed a bill that will increase child hunger. It should be rejected in no… Read more »
Legislative Action Day, February 9
On Tuesday, February 9, Oregon Food Bank Network staff and volunteers were in Salem advocating to leadership for an additional $10 million total for Emergency Housing Account ($8 million) and… Read more »
Contact Senator Merkley about The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
The federal government helps food banks by providing USDA commodity food, and financial assistance to store and distribute that food, through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). The financial assistance… Read more »