Love Our City

Mission

Love Our City provides reliable access to healthy and nutritious food for individuals and families facing food insecurity in NE Portland and beyond. More than just food, we offer compassion, dignity, and a sense of belonging.

Bottom Line

Fresh Food, Close to Home

Every week, Love Our City opens its doors to neighbors facing food insecurity, providing fresh, nutritious groceries, pet food and fresh flowers to individuals and families in need. For more than 41 years, we have served Northeast Portland and beyond, and today, more than 900 families rely on our services each month.

Our work is powered by a team of 80+ volunteers who pick up food donations from local grocery stores and partner agencies. They sort and pack it into boxes holding roughly 3-4 days of food, valued at about $150 each, and distribute them to our community.

We’re also growing beyond our walls. Through a pilot partnership with OHSU, we operate a free ‘shopping style’ grocery market providing food, fresh flowers, diapers and other household essentials to expectant and new mothers, and families of children being treated at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, when families need support most.

All told, we distribute 23,000+ pounds of food every month. Your gift helps keep that food moving to the neighbors who need it.

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"I only get $1,041 per month which only lasts for a couple of weeks and by the last 2 weeks of the month I run out of money. Food is so expensive, so I come to Love Our City to help me stretch out my money. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't come here.’ - Client 1.  

Incentives

The first 200 donors who give $50 or more to Love Our City will receive a $15 e-gift card from our generous business partner Fifty Licks Ice Cream: Legend-dairy and legend-non-dairy ice cream, made from scratch in Portland, Oregon.

Gift Matching

❤️❤️ Two generous donors will match every gift, dollar for dollar, up to $12,300 during the Give!Guide campaign. That means your $50 becomes $100 of food for neighbors in need. Give today and make your gift go twice as far.

Partner(s)

Thank you to our nonprofit partners for their support.  Please check out these other great organizations that are also featured in the Give!Guide and provide them your support as well:

🍎 St Johns Food Share distributes food through an open-door, no-barrier approach, providing a welcoming pantry shopping experience for individuals. By bridging the food gap, St Johns Food Share creates more joy, ease and security in our community.

🐶 Fences for Fido is dedicated to improving the lives of dogs by unchaining them. They provide free fences, warm shelter, veterinary care, and essential support to families in need. By serving socially, financially, and geographically isolated communities, Fences for Fido helps ensure every dog has the chance to live a free, healthy, and happy life. 

♟️ Chess for Success uses chess as a tool to build community, connection, and confidence.  Chess for Success supports students in Title 1, Community Eligibility Provision and Rural schools throughout Oregon and SW Washington.  Through their programming students not only learn chess, but also important life skills of emotional regulation and mindfulness.

🥾 Trailkeepers of Oregon keeps Oregon’s trails open, safe, and accessible.

🥬 Urban Gleaners collects delicious, fresh food before it can go to waste, and gets it to people who need it. Pure and simple.

🫀 The W(H)EALTHY is a purpose driven health, wealth and wellness organization committed to transforming lives through community, connection, and conscious living.

Thank you to our business partners: 

🚛 Von's Moving & Hauling, established in 2015, is a black owned moving company in Portland, Oregon. Please consider them if you are looking for moving services.

🍨 Fifty Licks Ice Cream is a beloved Portland ice cream shop with two locations:  SE Portland - 2021 SE Clinton, and NW Portland - 1647 NW 21st Ave.