Grocery Program:
Our grocery program is available to our guests once a week and provides food that they can take home to fill their fridges and pantries. We serve anybody in need residing in any Central Oregon community. We strive to provide each of our guests with a nutritious assortment of food. We average about 25 pounds per individual in a family. We cannot guarantee what we will have available each day, so we appreciate your understanding as we try to provide you with the best of what we have on hand. When we can, we do try and accommodate our guest’s special diet restrictions.
Backpacks for Bend:
Backpacks for Bend is the only program of it’s kind benefiting underprivileged, and too often overlooked, children in the Bend/La Pine school district. In the 2019/20 school year, The Giving Plate provided weekend food to over 500 K-12 food-insecure youth each weekend in 37 Bend/La Pine schools.
Kid’s Korner
We now have a space within our facility that is designated just for children ages 18 and under, called “Kid’s Korner”. Kids can come in any day we are open. They get to choose from 16 baskets of food/snack items, and each child leaves with 8-10 pounds of food. We are passionate about childhood hunger, and as an organization, we have a special focus on food insecurity among our youth. In fact, 60% of the individuals we support with food relief, organization-wide are under the age of 18.