Hunger Prevention Coalition of Central Oregon

12/24/2025

Thank you central Oregon for your generous support of your neighbors in need over all these years.

12/24/2025

01/24/2025

For fresh insights on the history and current reach of the HPC in Central Oregon, and how you or your business can help stop hunger, please listen to this recent interview on KPOV’s The Point. We are grateful to Malcolm McCrae and Robin Popp for taking the time during the holidays to highlight our program.

https://kpov.org/thepointpodcast/the-hunger-prevention-coalition-funding-nonprofits-that-provide-nutritious-food-to-neighbors-in-need

08/01/2024

Agency partners, members, and donors are invited to the 2024 Annual Meeting on August 21 at the Council on Aging Resource Center in Bend. Find details here: hungerpc.org/news/2024-annual-meeting

02/01/2024

😥 Help us find a home!
As many of you know, we've been asked to move.
We had a great lead on a space where we - alongside other service providers - could happily exist sometime in late 2024.
That possibility has come to an end.
So... Who do you know?

We need a building:
-accessible to transportation
-accessible to other major services
-large enough for a commercial kitchen and dining space and room for offices for our colleagues from other service agencies

Send ideas and connections to: [email protected]

11/19/2023

Thanks to the generosity of our community (individuals, businesses, and foundations alike) the Hunger Prevention Coalition is thrilled to announce that $44,000 has just been distributed to our partner agencies. Each quarter, HPC distributes funds raised to improve the nutritional content of meals and food boxes through the addition of meat, dairy, produce, eggs, and other high-cost/high nutrition foods.

HPC selects agencies in the tri-county area who provide barrier-free meals or food boxes to anyone in need through a grant application process. Our 2023-24 partners are : Bethlehem Inn, Care and Share Community Outreach, Council on Aging of Central Oregon, Family Kitchen, The Giving Plate, Inc., Jericho Road, LaPine Community Kitchen, Madras Community Food Pantry, Nativity Lutheran Food Pantry, Saving Grace, Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, St Vincent De Paul- Bend, St Vincent De Paul- Crook County, St Vincent De Paul- La Pine, St Vincent De Paul-Redmond.

If you would like to help add nutritious food to your neighbors’ meals, please look for the “Donate” button at the top of the HPC website.

10/31/2023

HPC was recently presented with a $1,500 grant by the
Each quarter, HPC distributes funds to member agencies in the tri-county area to improve the nutritional content of meals and food boxes through the addition of meat, dairy, produce, eggs, and other high-cost/high nutrition foods. At the HPC annual meeting and round-table in September, member agencies reported that the numbers of our neighbors needing food (in the form of meals and food boxes) continues to grow. 
If you would like to help add nutritious food to your neighbors meals, please look for the “Donate” button at the top of the HPC website.

10/30/2023

Notable recent grants from the highlight a generous spirit of giving to the Hunger Prevention Coalition in the first four months of its fiscal year.

Four of the recent grants from the OCF will be used exclusively for the purchase of nutritious food by HPC member agencies: $10,000 from the Elga Brown Fund, $5,000 from the Mary Ellen Fay Fund, $1,000 from an Anonymous Fund, and $3,000 from the McCleary Family Fund. A fifth grant for $5,000 from the Robert G. Kirby Fund of the OCF supports HPC operating funds.

Each quarter, HPC distributes funds to member agencies in the tri-county area to improve the nutritional content of meals and food boxes through the addition of meat, dairy, produce, eggs, and other high-cost/high nutrition foods. At the HPC annual meeting and round-table in September, member agencies reported that the numbers of our neighbors needing food (in the form of meals and food boxes) continues to grow. 

If you would like to help add nutritious food to your neighbors meals, please look for the “Donate” button at the top of the HPC website.

12/30/2022

HPC distributes funds to partner food banks and meal distribution sites throughout central Oregon strictly for the purchase of nutritionally dense foods such as eggs dairy fresh produce and meat. Every $ of your year-end gift to HPC will be used to buy nutritious food. Visit the link in our bio or hungerpc.org for more information, then click the DONATE button. Thank you!

12/27/2022

HPC distributes funds to partner food banks and kitchens throughout central Oregon strictly for the purchase of nutritionally dense foods such as eggs dairy fresh produce and meat. Every $ of your year-end gift to HPC will be used to buy nutritious food if you donate via “Help Fill Empty Plates” placards at your grocer or via our website. Visit the link in our bio or hungerpc.org for more information, then click the DONATE button. Thank you!

12/19/2022

Our completely transparent budget picture:
48% = food and service products
42% = people keeping the food and the people safe and keeping us funded
4% = occupancy, utilities, accounts payable/receivable, payroll administration (thank you, Trinity Episcopal Church - Bend, OR for this valuable way-under-market support)
remaining 6% (in order) = janitorial, equipment purchase, maintenance, communications, online presence and donation software

We could only take a wild stab at the budget for next year. The need will likely increase beyond what we can anticipate. Food costs are skyrocketing.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Match funds with Hatton Homes: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/hattonhome2022

Donate at the register at Newport Ave Market for their Food for February program and at other markets with the Hunger Prevention Coalition of Central Oregon program.

Donate directly at https://familykitchen.org/donate-now

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12/16/2022

Every $ of your gift to will be used to buy nutritious food if you donate to HPC via “Help Fill Empty Plates” placards at your grocer or our website. HPC distributes funds to partner food banks and kitchens throughout central Oregon strictly for the purchase of nutritionally dense foods such as eggs dairy fresh produce and meat. Visit the link in our bio or hungerpc.org for more information, then click the DONATE button. Thank you!