The Oregon Food Bank is a hunger relief organization based in the U.S. state of Oregon .
6-528: The Oregon Food Bank began as Oregon Food Share (OFS) which was founded in 1982. OFS created the first statewide foodbank network in the United States in the early 1980s. Around the same time period, the US government established programs to distribute food and other commodities in order to deplete federal stockpiles and assist low-income Americans. Oregon Food Share was contracted by the state of Oregon to handle
12-866: Is an annual event in Portland , Oregon , United States featuring four days of performances by blues musicians. The festival started in 1988 and takes place in Tom McCall Waterfront Park , along the west bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland . The festival began in 1987 as the Rose City Blues Festival, sponsored by the Cascade Blues Association, to benefit the Burnside Community Council's projects for
18-716: The Rose City Award from the Portland Oregon Visitors Association and an official U.S. Post Office postmark commemorating the festival. There was no festival in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . The 2021 festival was held at Zidell Yards , but 2022 saw the festival return to its usual location at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Every year there is a new poster for the Waterfront Blues Festival. The artist
24-583: The food bank stepped away from organizing the Blues Festival after 30 years but remained a beneficiary. Around May 2024, the Oregon Food Bank issued a statement calling for ceasefire in Gaza , which prompted 12 Jewish organizations to issue an intent to stop financial contribution until the organization withdraws the statement. Waterfront Blues Festival The Waterfront Blues Festival
30-466: The homeless. The FM community radio station KBOO has broadcast performances from the event, throughout the festival's history. The following year, Oregon Food Share (predecessor of the Oregon Food Bank ) became the beneficiary of the Rose City Blues Festival. In 1991, the name was changed to the Waterfront Blues Festival. The festival celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2007, earning
36-540: The state's share of the aid. In 1988, OFS merged with Interagency Food Bank to become Oregon Food Bank. In 1988 Oregon Food Share started the Waterfront Blues Festival , an annual music festival that takes place over 4 July weekend in Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland . The festival was subsequently organized by the Oregon Food Bank after the merger and name change; it helped support OFB through fundraising and food donations. In 2018,
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