Neighbors Together 2022
FOOD BANK, FRESH ALLIANCE, WOODLOT INFO and VOLUNTEER STATISTICS
Neighbors Together….depends on our volunteers!
Neighbors Together gives away food and emergency firewood as well as supports the numerous efforts of our volunteers. One of our goals is to provide a place for people to serve in whatever capacity they can because giving is so important. We thought it would be a good idea to share the statistics this year because it may prompt you to reach out and give or volunteer in some way.
Neighbors Together depends on the gracious donations of our community, our dedicated volunteers and is directly supported by 9 member churches in the La Grande, Oregon area. The primary event for Neighbors Together is our annual Thanksgiving dinner and we host various appreciation events throughout the year. Until last year, our primary corporate grant has been from United Way but their funding was greatly reduced in 2019. We hope to gain a variety of support from new sponsors this year.
We are pleased to announce last year’s volunteer statistics.
2022 Volunteer Statistics and Primary Focus
Food Bank(once a month – on last Saturday) # of Households 840 # of people in Household 2406 # of Volunteers 144 # of Volunteer Hours 350
Fresh Alliance(every Tuesday) # of Distribution days 51 # of Households 2496 # of people in Household 6049 # of Volunteers 576 # of Volunteer Hours 1071 # of Food Boxes Delivered 1,872 Food Donated # of Pounds of Food donated 9,234 Food Given Away Annually Emergency Firewood Statistics # of Volunteers 73 # of Volunteer Hours 336 # of people that got wood 67 # of cords of wood split 65 # of cords of wood distributed 53 Phone calls requesting help or info: 213 Volunteers are screened through an independent service. We seek donations through Amazon Prime purchase rewards for non-profits and we have established multiple ways to donate on our website: |
12 Member Churches 2022
2 Supporting Churches
10 People serve on the Board of Directors.
Many local businesses offer food and services to us throughout the year and Dutch brothers sponsored a donation day just for Neighbors Together in 2021
Numerous local people and businesses donate wood, bulk food and meat throughout the year. Our phone serves many requests from people requesting needs better fulfilled by others but we help them as best we can. |