August eight, 2022 — Florence Meals Share is happy to announce the revival of its Inexperienced Unhealthy Meals Donation Program, a simple method to struggle starvation in our group.
The best way this system works is easy: Florence Meals Share offers reusable inexperienced grocery luggage for folks to fill with non-perishable meals staples over the course of two months once they do their very own buying. The luggage are then picked up on a pre-scheduled date by a neighborhood coordinator who volunteers to ship them to the meals pantry.
Pickups are scheduled for the second Saturday of each even month: February, April, June, August, October, and December.
The Inexperienced Bag Program, or Neighborhood Meals Venture, started a few years in the past in Ashland/Medford, Oregon, and now operates in each western state and different components of the nation. It has confirmed to be a simple and efficient means to supply meals pantries with a constant provide all year long for these in want. Florence Meals Share was beforehand concerned in this system however didn’t have the workers to maintain it going.
A key component within the undertaking is the Neighborhood Coordinator (NC), an individual who volunteers to ask their neighbors to take part as Meals Donors. NCs canvass their neighborhoods to see who want to take part and switch in empty luggage together with a schedule of pick-up occasions, each offered by Meals Share.
The NC then retrieves the crammed luggage on the gathering date, leaves an empty bag for the subsequent time, and delivers the crammed luggage to Florence Meals Share.
One participant who has been very profitable as a Neighborhood Coordinator is Deborah Lipman, a brand new resident of Florence.
“I contributed to the Inexperienced Bag program after I lived in Douglas County and was impressed with how straightforward and productive it’s,” he mentioned. “After I moved right here, I contacted Meals Share and requested if I might use their provide of Inexperienced Baggage to solicit contributions from my neighbors. I’m now the NC for 15 contributors on my avenue who’re remarkably beneficiant, contributing a mixed common of 250- 300 kilos of meals to the pantry each two months for a complete of about three,000 kilos per 12 months.”
If you need to be a neighborhood coordinator, please contact Florence Meals Share at 541-997-9110 or cease by the pantry at 2190 Spruce Road.
For extra info, go to www.florencefoodshare.org.