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HUNGER AWARENESS ❚ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2016
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HELP END
HUNGER
IN FLORENCE
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Florence Food Share Facts
Who we are and What we do:
The mission of Florence Food Share is to alleviate
hunger in Western Lane County, and we do this by
distributing emergency food boxes to those in need.
Our 250 square mile service area includes
approximately 10,000 residents, of which an average
of 1,750 individuals per month are Food Share
clients. What this equates to is distributing close to
50,000 pounds of food each month.
An average of 25% of our clients are under the
age of 18 and an average of 28% of our clients are
seniors, many of whom are on a fixed income.
Share Farm, as it is much more than a garden. From purchase you make goes directly to Food Share, at
our mini-farm, we distributed 9,745 lbs. of produce no cost to you. Go to www.smile.amazon.com
to our clients in 2015.
Another program that sends a portion of your
purchase directly to Food Share, is the Fred Meyer
What we Need:
Community Rewards Program. At no cost to you, a
portion of your purchase is donated to Food Share.
Approximately 40% of the food we distribute is Go
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purchased from our county food bank in Eugene, community-rewards-4
Food for Lane County. Because we are able to
purchase food from them at a deep discount, we are
able to access and distribute 65 pounds of food for
every dollar donation we receive. For this reason, it
is much better for us to receive cash instead of
canned food.
WISHING EVERYONE A
VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY
SEASON!!!
Having said that, there are a few items that FFLC
Food Share has a very small staff, and an all
volunteer board that works many hours each month rarely offers. These are: canned tuna, chili, beef
on behalf of Food Share. We also are blessed to have stew, peanut butter, mac-n-cheese, tomato products,
the help of 125 volunteers, who in 2014 contributed spaghetti sauce and toilet paper.
over 11,000 hours of their time to help our
organization.
There are several ways anyone can help Food
One of the highlights of our food pantry is our
15,000 square foot (non-certified) organic garden, Share, which cost nothing. One program is called
with 52 raised vegetable beds and 2 High Tunnel the Amazon Smile program. Through a program
greenhouses. It is now affectionately called Food that Amazon.com has set up, a portion of every
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