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Presenting the 2014 Childhood Hunger Forum
With Portland situated at the center of a thriving local food movement, it is easy to celebrate our agricultural wealth and booming culture of farmer’s markets and innovative restaurants. With this abundance at the forefront, the darker side of our food economy is...
read moreVolunteer Profile: Gianna Banducci
Here at Urban Gleaners, our volunteers play a vital role in helping us redistribute a bounty of surplus food to Portland area schools and hunger relief agencies. Last year these dedicated individuals helped us rescue over 571,000 pounds of food from Portland area...
read moreGleaner Pastures: A New Home for Urban Gleaners
Urban Gleaners mission is to help alleviate hunger by collecting edible food that would otherwise be discarded from grocery stores, farmers markets, restaurants, farms and event sites to be delivered to any of our 17 partner elementary schools. Founded in 2006 by a...
read moreOPB Covers Inequality Dichotomy in Orange County
The newly infamous Orange County is the backdrop to some of the most egregious and over-the-top television shows on air (The O.C., Housewives of Orange County, Laguna Beach). The O.C. has become synonymous with gratuitous wealth and excess; OPB named it the richest...
read moreStaff Addition
Lauren Howard Joins the Urban Gleaners' Staff Lauren joins Urban Gleaners with over 8 years of experience in the non-profit world. As an undergrad at DePaul University, he joined a literacy-based school readiness program and was placed at a Headstart preschool center...
read moreA Year in Review
It’s been a hallmark year for Urban Gleaners in many respects. We increased our fleet of vans by 100% (from 1 to 2) and our staff by 50% (from 2 to 3). Every month the amount of edible food we capture from the waste stream surges, as if there is a never-ending tidal...
read moreGleaning in 15 Minutes or Less
This past holiday season, the MetroEast Community Hotline Channel graciously hosted Urban Gleaners on their show. They invited us to highlight our major programs and to talk about the ever pervasive and expanding need in Portland. As we enter into Urban Gleaners'...
read moreUrban Gleaners: A Day in the Life
Once you become mired in your own profession, everything becomes normalized; the jargon (weird lexicon and acronyms), the systems, the software and the tools. We forget sometimes that we’re specialists in our field and that the outside world often doesn’t know the...
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