Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Tualatin Valley Gleaners primary purpose shall be to help people help themselves to meet the needs of their households by the following; to provide food, aid and other assistance to the low income , disabled, children and elderly in the Tualatin Valley , Oregon area. By participating in field and urban gleaning. Soliciting donations of food, non-food and cash to help meet our goals.
We gave away over 391,183 lbs of food to over 21,345 individuals.We had 5,705 volunteer hours of service for food relief. We focused on food education in forms of procurement through nature and food preservation this year as well as our distribution activities.Our Primary purpose is to help people help themselves to meet the needs of their households by the following; to provide food, aid and other assistance, to low income, disabled, children and elderly in the Tualatin Valley , Oregon area. By participating in field and urban gleaning, soliciting donations of food, non-food and cash to help meet our goals.
Our food distribution is our largest and main part of our program. We supply supplemental foods for low-income families in need on a weekly basis. We collect food donations from the Oregon Food Bank, local grocers as well as go out into back yards and fields to "glean" left over or unwanted foods. We use food drives to solicit food and goods for our program. We also purchase food at times for our members. We served 391183 lbs of food to *21,348 (*duplicated, meaning they were able to come more than once during the year - up to 48 times within a year)
Special Programs(Farm2Forest, Holiday, Garden, Outreach) The Farm2Forest program provides education materials, and classes for fishing, harvesting of edible foraged items, and recipes. The Holiday program provides a full holiday meal and supplemental food boxes for each low-income family that signs up to receive one. It also provides gifts/toys for individuals under the age of 18. We provided over 300 meals and food boxes, including 800 children with gifts. The Garden is a 4, 000 sq foot area we work and maintain to provide opportunities for our members to meet with community members and provide food into the distribution. Education for personal gardens is provided by master gardeners for any member wanting service. Outreach provides a way to communicate with the community in need, as well as foster relationships with potential new donors, and new members.
We did not have any other program services
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jessica Thompson | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Angela Cohen | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Rhonda Bostic | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Susan Colflesh | Vice President of the Board | 10 | $0 |
| Heather Thompson | President of Board | 10 | $0 |
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