SnowCap Charities Needs Your Excess Garden Produce to Help Fill Huge Funding Gap
By admin - Posted on October 1st, 2011
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 SnowCap volunteers prepare food boxes |
Please, share your harvest
SnowCap Community Charities |
Neighbors helping neighbors
SnowCap faces serious reductions in the food available to feed our neighbors in need. It’s a long story, but essentially the commodities donated by the federal government to the state and from the state to the Oregon Food Bank (OFB) and then to SnowCap have been cut by almost 50%. These commodities have a cash value of $235,000 so SnowCap can’t just buy enough food to make up for this loss. One way to mitigate the suffering this will create for our low income neighbors it to ask everyone to share the harvest from their gardens. Tell your friends. Share this request with everyone.
How to donate
If you have vegetables that you’d like to share, please bring them to 17788 SE Pine St on weekdays between 9AM & 3PM. Get Map!
Bringing it home
Fact: The 2011 State of Oregon school report cards, published on the Oregonian newspaper website, showed Wilkes Elementary School served free or reduced price lunches to 85.9% of the schools 405 students last year. Enrollment at Wilkes Elementary School is almost entirely made-up of children who reside in the Wilkes East Neighborhood. According to federal income guidlines, school-age children who live in a family of four with an annual income of $41,348 may qualify for free or reduced price meals. For a single parent with one child the annual income is $27,214. For more information parents should visit the Reynolds School District Nutrition Services website or call 503-661-7200.
More info
To keep up with information about SnowCap people can always check out their website, www.snowcap.org
