Food Bank Statistics and Facts

Food Bank Stats and Facts

Stats and Facts for Fiscal Year 2008 - 09

The food bank has been serving Klamath and Lake counties for 25 years
The food bank provided food to nearly 5,150 households
The food bank provided food to assist in the preparation of 340,000 meals that fed children, seniors and disabled people
66% of the households we served were seniors or disabled
30% had at least one person working full-time
23% were unemployed, looking for work or laid-off
8% were single parents
2% were grandparents raising grandkids
9% were disabled veterans
50% had no health insurance
48% had a child or children in the home
The Food Bank distributes about 23,000 pounds of food weekly

Households may fit more than one category. Example; John Doe is an 85 year old veteran living with his disabled son.

How To Help:

Make a monetary donation, by cash, check or on-line at klamathfoodbank.org.
If you have a garden and you’ve given produce to everybody you know and can’t find a home for the rest, WE’LL TAKE IT. All of it.
Hold a food drive at your Birthday, Reunion, Anniversary, Halloween and/or Christmas parties. If 500 households hold a food drive and collect 10 pounds, that’s 5,000 pounds of food. It all adds up. We can provide invitation inserts letting people know about your food drive. Barrels are available too.
Drop off food donations at Safeway, the Senior Center or Goodwill .
Hold a food drive at work. Call and we’ll deliver a nicely decorated barrel.
Be a “Coin Crook.” Take a container to work, school or your service organization meeting and ask people to donate any change they may have. It adds up quickly. If you’d like us to provide you a container, just give us a call.
Look for our coin boxes at local businesses and throw your change in the box.

The food bank distributes food and non-food items to these Emergency Food Assistance Programs:

1) Salvation Army	10) Bonanza Assembly of God
2) Bly Food Pantry	11) Ponderosa Church (Crescent)
3) St. Paul’s Church	12) Saving Grace Lutheran Church (Keno)
4) Klamath Lutheran	13) Christmas Valley Food Pantry (Lake Cty.)
5) St. Vincent De Paul	14) Paisley Food Share (Lake Cty.)
6) Stewart Lennox Baptist Church	15) Faith Center (Lake Cty.)
7) Malin/Merrill Pantry	16) First Presbyterian (Lake Cty.)
8) Church of the Nazarene	17) Chemult Pantry
9) Sprague River Bridges Program	18) Klamath-Lake Counties Food Bank

If a family can access a little help when they need it, they can concentrate on their temporary financial crisis and getting through it. If seniors or people with disabilities can access food assistance, it frees up their small fixed income to cover higher utility costs, prescriptions, etc.

Years ago the food bank’s main mission was to provide emergency food assistance. We found there were many ways the food bank could expand its services to assist other non-profit programs. The non-profits listed below provide many vital services that promote positive outcomes and futures for children and adults. While they work on building these positive futures, they must also provide them with meals or snacks. The cost to provide food can take away dollars that could be used to make their programs the best they can be. We believe by providing food assistance we can be a partner in making a crucial difference in the outcome of a child’s development or an adult’s future. This is truly the way to get to the root causes of hunger.

1) K.C. Senior Center	16) Various Adult & Kid Projects
2) K.F. Headstart	17) Friends of the Children
3) Lake Cty. Senior Center	18) Klamath Crisis Center
4) YMCA	19) Klamath Falls Gospel Mission
5) Sunshine Daycare (Lake Cty)	20) Klamath Hospice
6) Exodus House	21) The OSU Extension Office Self Help workshops. Teaching low-income people how to prepare and cook meals to stretch their food budget
7) Chiloquin Christian Center
8) Integral Youth Services
9) Klamath Cty. Migrant Program	22) The Hope Center
10) Klamath Kid Center	23) Oasis Drop-In Center
11) Kleo’s Children’s Community	24) Klamath Community Treatment Center
12) Freewill Church	25) Spokes Unlimited
13) Citizens for Safe Schools
14) High Desert Hospice
15) Children Learn After School (CLAS) Tutor and mentoring class at Chiloquin Elementary

Thank you in advance for your support.

Niki Sampson,
Executive Director

“AND JUSTICE FOR ALL” In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) An Oregon Food Bank Affiliate Agency.