If you have an hour or two, you can:

Offer to cook a meal for an elderly neighbor or a busy parent, or take a neighbor without transportation to the grocery store.

Donate time, money, or food to a local food drive, food bank, or other meal program. The Oregon Food Bank website is a great place to start.

If you work or volunteer for any children and senior groups, talk with them to find out if they're using all the federal food programs available to them. Contact us at 503-236-7773 about for more information about specific programs, as well as visiting our Child Nutrition and Food Stamp pages.

Meet with the principal at your child's school and encourage him or her to send Food Stamp outreach materials home with students or print an outreach message with the number for Oregon SafeNet on lunch menus. Flyers and more information about food stamps are available here.

Take your kids to Summer Food meal sites during the summer. Call SafeNet at 1-800-723-3638 for the nearest locations. Offer to take other kids from your neighborhood area.

Sign up for the Advocacy Alert list, read it every month, and take 5 minutes to participate in the "Take 5" action. To receive a copy of the Advocacy Alert every month via mail or e-mail, send your name, address, and email address to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Tip whenever possible! Many employees in service sectors are in minimum wage jobs and could use the extra help.

Contribute money to our Child Nutrition campaign. There are nearly 200,000 children in Oregon who live in families where there is often not enough to eat. These children have a difficult time keeping up at school as a direct result of their nutrition problems. There are federal child nutrition programs that, if fully utilized, could help end hunger in Oregon among school-age children. The Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force plans to use a successful outreach model to increase Oregon's access to federal funding and significantly increase the number of Oregon children who have enough to eat. To learn more, visit our Child Nutrition Outreach page.  (Please make checks out to Oregon Food Bank, and designate the Child Nutrition campaign on the memo line.) Mail checks to OHRTF at 4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR 97214.