Community Food Resources: Places to Get Help & Give Help
This guide highlights a selection of local food pantries, meal programs, and volunteer opportunities in the Portland area. While not comprehensive, these organizations offer ways to access food, support neighbors, and get involved in the community.
Resources and availability may change. Please visit each organization’s website for current information.
GET HELP
- Oregon Food Bank: Use the Oregon Food Bank’s Food Finder Map to find over 100 food pantries, free food markets or hot meal programs near you.
- Urban Gleaners: Find 20+ free markets with food provided by Urban Gleaners.
- Feed'em Freedom: The Black Community Food Center offers a food pantry, sustainable agriculture and food justice education at Feedemfreedom.org
- PDX Free Fridge: Free food in fridges and pantries are across Portland. Take what you need, leave what you don't, give what you can. Find them here.
- Milk Crate Kitchen: Provides cooked family meals twice a month via home delivery and in-person pick up. Click here to request a meal.
- Equitable Giving Circle: Hosts a "Weekly Free Market for Black & Brown Folks", along with other health and wellness community events. Find the details here.
- Blanchet House: Founders Cafe offers 3 free meals a day Monday - Saturday at 310 NW Glisan St. Find details here.
- Sunshine Division: Free food box delivery and pantry by appointment, for those in Portland. Visit their website for more information: sunshinedivision.org/get-help
GIVE HELP
- Mainspring Community Food & Clothing Pantry: Sign up to volunteer here
- Community for Positive Aging: Hollywood Senior Center meal service volunteers needed. Sign up to volunteer here
- Milk Crate Kitchen: Help with meal cooking, delivery, distribution and other options. Sign up to volunteer here
- Nourish Oregon: Sign up to volunteer here
- Esther's Pantry: Sign up to volunteer here
- The Salvation Army- Gresham Corps Pantry: sign up to volunteer here
- Latino Network- School based pantries: sign up to volunteer here
- El Programa Hispano- School based pantries and Older Adult Wellness Program: sign up to volunteer here
- Lift Up: Help pack food, support Preston's Pantry, deliver food, or virtual and group opportunities. Sign up to volunteer here
- Feed the Mass: Help prep, cook and package meals. Sign up to volunteer here
More about Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer:
Behind the Curtain: There Is Enough
PCS Dramaturg Kamilah Bush on the state of food insecurity in Oregon and the U.S.
Snap!: The vibrant ‘Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer’ entertains and enlightens with karaoke-style songs
By Linda Ferguson for Oregon ArtsWatch
Wong’s solo musical comedy, playing at Portland Center Stage, also digs deep as it schools us on rising food insecurity in the richest nation in the world.
Stage & Studio: Interview with Kristina Wong
Stage & Stduio's Dmae Lo Roberts interviews Kristina Wong about her new show #FoodBankInfluencer, returning to Portland, and why "food banks?." Listen online or wherever you get your podcasts now.
Multnomah County Library My Discovery Pass Reading List
Enjoy a thoughtfully curated list of readings to complement your Kristina Wong, #foodbankinfluencer experience!
How do you become a food bank influencer? Comedian Kristina Wong has answers
Isabella Bernstein interviews Kristina Wong on #FoodBankInfluencer for the Boston Globe
Current & Upcoming
BIPOC Affinity Night: Karaoke Party for Milk Crate Kitchen & Equitable Giving Circle
Wanna help fight food insecurity? Sing a song with us! Sticking with Kristina Wong's amazing theme, for our BIPOC Affinity Night, we will be hosting a Karaoke Party at The Armory. Every song sung will be a meal donated to local nonprofit Milk Crate Kitchen & Equitable Giving Circle, so come sing for a good cause! Oh, and of course, there'll be come complimentary beer from Deschutes Brewery :)
PCS Teen Playwrights Spring Showcase 2026
Don't miss this evening of phenomenal plays written by teens from our PCS Teen Playwrights residencies, directed and performed by PCS professionals.
Improv Comedy: Love, Shakespeare
Witness the Magic of Unscripted Shakespeare! Step into the offbeat word of Love, Shakespeare, where seasoned Portland comedians attempt something audacious: performing a fully improvised Elizabethan play based on your suggestions!
Storm Large Makes it Home
Portland Center Stage presents Storm Large Makes It Home, a gripping new memoir-on-stage from acclaimed singer, actor, and songwriter Storm Large. Featuring new original music written and performed live by Storm, this intimate one-woman show explores family, identity, belonging, and the search for a place to call home.
Improvisation Classes for Beginners
Whether you're looking to get more confident in social situations, think quicker on your feet, or get in touch with your imaginative side, these "one-off" improv classes will set you on the path to success!
Liberace & Liza: A Tribute
Liberace & Liza Minnelli never performed together, but should have! David Saffert & Jillian Snow have created a wildly successful mashup of two over-the-top icons, which is now headed to London’s West End after a sell-out UK tour. Saffert’s dizzying piano skills and Snow’s powerhouse belt team up in songs such as Cabaret, New York, New York, Over the Rainbow and even in surprise covers of Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. There are as many laughs as sequins when Liberace & Liza take hilarious turns vying for the spotlight. No matter what, they both come out winning and audiences are left in awe after a night they won’t soon forget. We hope to see you at The Armory and if you’re feeling frisky, come on over and join us in London!
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