Portland Food Project

Welcome to the Portland Food Project!

The Food Project is a revolutionary way to collect food: It's a donor drive, not a food drive.

Instead of asking for one-time contributions of food, our volunteers (Neighborhood Coordinators) enlist their neighbors to become long-term Food Donors.

What's the Food Project about?
Watch a video. (3:15 min.)

Gov. John Kitzhaber on the Food Project
Watch a video. (1:23 min.)

What we do

Neighbors donate a bag of food every two months. It's incredibly easy, because we supply the bag…and we pick up the food! This provides food pantries with a steady, year-round supply of food…and provides donors with the ongoing satisfaction of making a real difference. They also get to know their neighbors, which builds a powerful sense of community. So everyone wins.

What's the result?

We began in Feb. 2012 as the SE Portland Food Project partnering with 2 local food pantries, providing 237 lbs. from 12 donors. We are now the Portland Food Project, crossing Bridges & Burnside collecting 18,000 lbs. from over 1,000 donors in Dec. 2014.

We now serve 15 pantries and have two  affiliate Food Projects; Milwaukie and Hillsboro, working to end child hunger.

Read more…and then click on the link in a box below and join us! Whether you donate food, collect it, help make policy decisions, or help out in some other way, you are what makes this program work. The PFP needs you.

I'd like to be a Food Donor

We’ll bring you a reusable green bag. Put food in it, and we’ll pick it up. It’s that easy!

I'd like to be a
Neighborhood Coordinator

Get a group of neighbors to be Food Donors, and pick up their food every two months.

I'd like to Help
in Other Ways

Backup Drivers for food pickups, working information table at neighborhood events.