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Our friends at Salt & Straw had nice things to say about Urban Gleaners toward the end of this clip from KGW.
KATU featured founder and Executive Director Tracy Oseran as Urban Gleaners goes back to school with our Food to Schools Program.
North Bennett, working with the Media Institute for Social Change, made a short audio spot about our work.
Volunteer of the Month: July
Katie Erzen Katie started volunteering with Urban Gleaners in 2008, alongside her daughters Carissa and Kira. They have done the same donation pick-up route over the last 7 years. As one of the Urban Gleaners Co-Liaisons for her National Charity League chapter...
read moreVolunteer of the Month: April
April Volunteer of the Month: Polly Spencer Polly comes in to repack the large amount of prepared food we have every Monday morning. She's amazingly reliable and dedicated, helping us get the food back out to pantries the same day it comes in. She says she enjoys...
read moreThanks to our partnership with the Portland Trail Blazers and Papa Murphy’s Pizza, we had a special guest at a special pantry at Cherry Park Elementary.
Thanks to our partnership with the Portland Trail Blazers and Papa Murphy’s Pizza, we had a special guest at a special pantry at Cherry Park Elementary.
Volunteer Emeritus
Volunteer Emeritus: Dougal Williams Dougal has been volunteering for UG for almost as long as there has been an Urban Gleaners. Every Friday morning he has picked up the donations from Zupan’s Burnside, often at 6:00 AM., before going for his run, helping his three...
read moreMore Reasons to Reduce Food Waste
The New York Times editorial board calls for a concerted effort to reduce food waste. The food discarded by consumers and retailers in just the most developed nations would be more than enough to sustain all the world’s 870 million hungry people if effective...
read moreWaste not, want not
You've probably heard the statistic that 40% of the food produced in the US goes uneaten. And, as Ashley Zanolli of the EPA explains Food waste is the single largest and least-recovered waste stream in the U.S. From the time our food is produced and all the energy and...
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