Oregon Food Bank
Emergency food box distribution increased 14 percent, from 785,569 in 2007-08 to 897,142 in 2008-09 – an increase of 111,459 emergency food boxes.
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Those most likely to need emergency food are children, working families, the elderly, the retired, the disabled. They are your neighbors, and they need your help.
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3.8-million emergency meals were served by soup kitchens and shelters.
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67% of house holds reported incomes less than 100% of the federal poverty level.
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27% of households with children report cutting or reducing the size of a child’s meals. Of those, 30% do this every month.
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69% of households worry at least sometimes how they will get their next meal.
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Distribution of emergency food boxes increased 13% from 792,000 in 2007-08 to 897,000 in 2008-09 — an increase of 105,000 additional emergency food boxes.
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For every $10 you donate, you enable Oregon Food Bank to move 50 pounds of food through our network, providing enough food to fill an emergency food box. A typical emergency food box provides three-to-five days of food for a family of four.
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For our recently completed fiscal year, less than 5 percent of our expenses went to fundraising and administrative costs.