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The 2023 USDA food commodity program also known as TEFAP has orange income guidelines posters. If your food distribution site receives TEFAP food, you need to update this poster and a few other forms. Read the full article for links.
A New Year means new TEFAP Income Guidelines. If you are a TEFAP Recipient Agency, you have recently received new posters (orange). Please make sure that you have posted the 2023 poster pictured below and thrown away the old (green) posters. If you need additional languages please use this form to make the request.
We also want to remind you of the TEFAP Basics page of portals linked here. This is a great resource if you have questions around intake requirements, client…
Do you wonder where to submit requests for thermometers or easily notify us of staff changes? This article has the links to the web forms you can use to make these requests.
As an Oregon Food Bank Partner Agency, it is crucial that we have the most accurate infomation for your site. We have just added a new form to our website with step-by-step instructions for updating agency contact information. It is your responsibility to let us know if there are any changes to your staff, hours, address, or programming. We recommend that you look up your agency on Food Finder to ensure that we have the most up-to-date location and hours information. If the…
As an Oregon Food Bank Partner, you and your volunteers are the last checkpoint before food goes into the hands of the communities we serve. If product lands without a label it should never be distributed to clients. Labels include important information such as allergens and nutrition facts that are crucial to ensuring the safety of our clients. Read the full article for more details!
As an Oregon Food Bank Partner, you and your volunteers are the last checkpoint before food goes into the hands of the communities we serve. This goes for double checking food received directly from Oregon Food Bank and all other food sources to ensure that no mistakes were made. One important item to look out for is complete product labeling. If product lands without a label it should never be distributed to clients. Labels include important information such as allergens and …
Please seize this moment to tell yourself that you are knowledgeable about food safety, and connected to food safety experts (that’s us in Network Compliance!). As diligent and food savvy as we all are, every food source could contribute a product that is not appropriate to distribute. You are our last line of scrutiny before this life saving food reaches our community. If any questions about evaluation, safe handling, and screening of all foods that come through your program’s doors, please reach out to us by phone or email.
How many different sources contribute to stocking your pantry or supplying your meal site? As a partner agency you and your staff are receiving food from many food streams- the loving community, Oregon Food Bank, grocery stores, producers, and farmers. As diligent and food savvy as we all are, every source could contribute a product that is not appropriate to distribute. Examples that make food unfit for distribution include: spoiled, unlabeled, compromised packaging, part of a recall, expired…
Ever wonder how to get the word out about service schedule changes at your agency? Who at OFB should be notified? In service to our community, we ask that you read below to learn the appropriate actions to take with any schedule changes to your service or programming.
The Holiday Season is here as well as the season of inclement weather. It is important that OFB is aware of any closures or service style/hours changes at Partner Agencies due to these events so that we can communicate these through Food Finder. In service to our community, we ask that you follow the steps below to get word out about any schedule changes to your service or programming.
Holiday closures: OFB will put out banner announcements on Food Finder that inform clients that they should…
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