Food Sharing & Rescue
Identify donations, rescue safe surplus food, divide large loads, and move excess food to communities that can distribute it before it spoils.
What We Do
Shared infrastructure for reliable food access.
UFNOR helps community organizations overcome the transportation, storage, refrigeration, funding, technology, and coordination barriers that prevent food from reaching people.
Transportation & Delivery
Coordinate statewide and regional routes, refrigerated transportation, pickups, fuel support, and delivery assistance.
Storage & Regional Hubs
Develop shared dry, refrigerated, and frozen storage closer to the independent programs and communities that need it.
Cooperative Purchasing
Explore shared purchasing for food, supplies, fuel, equipment, insurance, technology, and professional services.
Training & Technical Assistance
Support food safety, governance, financial controls, volunteer management, data privacy, grants, and disaster preparation.
Emergency Response
Coordinate food, water, transportation, refrigeration, equipment, volunteers, and temporary storage during disasters.
Dignified access
Food assistance centered on people and choice.
UFNOR’s ultimate beneficiaries are individuals and households experiencing hunger, food insecurity, poverty, displacement, disaster, transportation barriers, housing instability, medical hardship, unemployment, or other circumstances that limit access to nutritious food.
When feasible, UFNOR supports grocery-style or client-choice distribution models that are welcoming, low-barrier, respectful, and culturally responsive.
Have food, transportation, storage, or equipment to share?
UFNOR is building the relationships and systems needed to match available resources with independent community organizations across Oregon.