Posted on 12 May 2010. Tags: Cricket Wireless, Oregon Telephone Assistance Program, Oregpn Public Utility Commissioner, OTAP, Portland Council of St. Vincent de Paul, PUC, Society of St.Vincent De Paul
With unemployment at an all-time high and uncertainty surrounding certain benefits, Oregonians in need of telephone service are turning to the Lifeline Program
As Oregon struggles with high unemployment and the nation copes with uncertainty about long-term unemployment benefits, more Oregonians than ever before are looking for new ways to ease their strained budgets. One [...]
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Posted on 09 April 2010.
Providence Health & Services has donated more than $20,000 raised from its annual Table of the King event to support the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Portland Council’s Food Bank and food programs. The Table of the King honors Mother Emilie Gamelin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence.
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Posted on 05 January 2010. Tags: Biggest Loser, Feeding America, Food Recovery Network, hunger, Pound for Pound Challenge, St.Vincent de Paul Portland Council
To join the Challenge, visit www.PFPChallenge.com orwww.BiggestLoser.com and enter your weight loss goals. For every pound of weight participants pledge to lose, the Pound For Pound Challenge will donate 14 cents to Feeding America – enough to deliver one pound of groceries to a local food bank – up to a maximum donation of $800,000.
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Posted on 22 September 2009. Tags: Food Bank, Food Recovery Network, hunger, Hunger Action Month
St. Vincent de Paul Food Recovery Network, in conjunction with Feeding America, and community business partners, The Cheesecake Factory and Macy’s, are mobilizing in an effort to engage everyone in ending hunger in Oregon.
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Posted on 01 September 2009. Tags: Feeding America, Food Recovery Network, hunger, Hunger Action Month, Hunger Awareness Month
St. Vincent de Paul Food Recovery Network, in conjunction with Feeding America, announces the second annual Hunger Action Month, a nationwide call-to-action effort to mobilize people everywhere to get involved with ending hunger in America.
Nationally, 1 in 8 Americans struggles with hunger. In Oregon, hunger impacts 1 in 5 Oregonians. [...]
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Posted on 20 July 2009. Tags: Bar Hunger, Feeding America, Food Recovery Network, hunger, Press Release, Snickers
Mars Snackfood US announced Monday , July 15th that its SNICKERS® Brand is teaming up with Feeding America and St. Vincent de Paul Food Recovery Network to ‘Bar Hunger’ – a campaign to help the one in eight Americans struggling with hunger. As part of ‘Bar Hunger,’ SNICKERS will donate the equivalent of at [...]
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