Our community outreach extends to many local organizations we support with donations. These include:
Giving Back
Supporting health & wellness in our community
Oregon Food Bank
We've been a proud supporter of Oregon Food Bank for decades, donating more than 650,000 pounds of food since 2014 alone. Oregon Food Bank was founded in 1988 and collects food from multiple sources, including farmers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, individual donors and the government. This food is then distributed through a network of 21 regional food banks and 1,200 food assistance sites serving the state of Oregon and Clark County, Washington. We staunchly support their goal to eliminate hunger in Oregon, and we're honored to be able to help.
Urban Growers Collective
Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and woman-led organization that aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Bob’s Red Mill is proud to support their efforts to heal trauma through food justice, create a market for urban growers and provide good food for the communities they serve. Through a variety of programs, including their Fresh Moves Mobile Market, COVID-19 emergency food relief and Collective Supported Agriculture subscription, Urban Growers Collective seeks to build economic opportunity for urban farmers, mitigate food insecurity and increase access to high quality, affordable and nutritionally dense food on Chicago’s South and West Sides. Learn more at urbangrowerscollective.org.
Emma's Torch
Founded in 2016, Emma’s Torch is a non-profit social enterprise that provides top-notch culinary training to refugees, asylees and survivors of human trafficking, and helps them find meaningful careers in the food industry. They offer classes through their restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and cafe at the Brooklyn Public Library. At Bob’s Red Mill, we support their vision of a country where refugees are welcomed as an important part of the economy and their new communities, by offering product donations and monetary support. Learn more at emmastorch.org.
Albertina Kerr
Since 1907, Albertina Kerr has been caring for Oregon’s most vulnerable citizens. Today, Kerr offers short-term crisis psychiatric care and community-based outpatient services for children and teens facing a mental health challenge. Kerr also provides safe and supportive 24-hour residential care, as well as employment training with follow-along coaching, for individuals experiencing an intellectual and/or developmental disability. Bob’s Red Mill makes monthly product donations that contribute to healthy meals for the Albertina Kerr community. Learn more at albertinakerr.org.
Good Roots Food Bank
Good Roots Food Bank has been serving the community of Milwaukie, Oregon since 2000, providing nutritious food to those in need via donations and an organic community garden open to all. Volunteers meet and develop relationships with the community while greeting guests, taking and filling food orders, and helping with food deliveries and pickups.
Providence Community Kitchen
The Community Teaching Kitchen at Providence Milwaukie Hospital works to create a healthier community through outpatient nutrition counseling and diabetes education, regular screening for food insecurity, access to healthy food, culinary skills building, and navigation for connection to individualized resources.
Portland Rescue Mission
Formed in 1949, Portland Rescue Mission gives hope and restores life to people in the Portland-Vancouver metro community who struggle with hunger, homelessness and addiction. Bob’s Red Mill helps offer hundreds of nutritious meals every day to those in need. For so many in our community, these meals can be the very first step toward total life restoration.