Reminder - we are still looking for donations for next month's food drive. I'm particularly looking for flea market items PB& Jelly and auction items. Thanks!! Jen From: Cohen, Jennifer Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 12:12 PM To: BEE Office <bee.office@oregonstate.edu>; bee-faculty@engr.orst.edu; bee-grad@engr.orst.edu; ecoe-ungrads@engr.orst.edu; bee-alumni@engr.orst.edu Subject: 2024 Food Drive-Looking for donations Greetings Faculty, staff, students and alumni, During this time of year the Linn Benton Food Share<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FLinnBentonFoodShare%3F__cft__%255b0%255d%3DAZXQQFHpygaQmVhNPC7rlJqi5314oJuuUmN5WDOUaQEZ1tCF0Ml6F5QGQ_7mzenhVxl65uqOvK-hKV5AxiBVH0AlMyXVdvb1PkZXeG5WEoVRQZQSiDr9f8ox6IZq6S8LJ2ybB9qQwTfDqHk4yc8abD4yUDUW6Nct0H6_zNT8Pcamwo8jpWZg3I0mYfTO5YNjgJU%26__tn__%3D-%255dK-R&data=05%7C02%7Cbee-alumni%40engr.orst.edu%7C9c8c33288fd5426ee23e08dc21ed425a%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638422550102283604%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LQZyxjKRcs0y7aAy0czgl6nrx4n2bmFU02sV1I0SfXk%3D&reserved=0> is taxed extra hard with need from the community. They would never be able to provide the number of meals and services for our community without generous donations from those who can help. During the month of February the Oregon Governor's Food Drive takes place throughout state agencies across Oregon. Oregon State University is heavily involved, with events going on across campus to help raise funds. OSU is so successful in our endeavors that we actually provide about 20% of the budget to the Food Bank. We also donates hundreds of thousands of pounds of food each year from our various research stations. Every dollar we collect provides 3-4 meals from the community as LBFS maximizes these donations by purchasing items in bulk. They wouldn't be able to do all they do without the amazing Linn Benton community!! Last year, with the help from generous donations from our students, staff, faculty and alumni, BEE took 2nd place for our team size. This year we're trying to take 1st from the 6th floor of Kerr, but we need your help!! We are currently looking for donations for various events we have in Gilmore Hall for the fundraising COMPETITION! If you have a product, gift certificate, art piece, service, anything you would like to offer up, please reach out. I do several events thanks to donations from the community including PB&J station in our main office, cookie decorating (both thanks to New Morning Bakery<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnewmorningbakery%3F__cft__%255b0%255d%3DAZXQQFHpygaQmVhNPC7rlJqi5314oJuuUmN5WDOUaQEZ1tCF0Ml6F5QGQ_7mzenhVxl65uqOvK-hKV5AxiBVH0AlMyXVdvb1PkZXeG5WEoVRQZQSiDr9f8ox6IZq6S8LJ2ybB9qQwTfDqHk4yc8abD4yUDUW6Nct0H6_zNT8Pcamwo8jpWZg3I0mYfTO5YNjgJU%26__tn__%3D-%255dK-R&data=05%7C02%7Cbee-alumni%40engr.orst.edu%7C9c8c33288fd5426ee23e08dc21ed425a%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638422550102283604%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jjFe0whmZKu2y0kf9TqaMcywJx04DraaQwJBpgoxnfU%3D&reserved=0>), a raffle and a flea market. Other departments also do things like cooking classes, so if you have a skill you would like to share for a small donation for the participants we can help organize that too! If you have any connections with a business in the community who would be willing to let us put a cash and food donation collection bin in their space, please reach out. We want to collect as much as we can! If you are an OSU employee, you can also make donation via an easy monthly payroll contribution (https://communications.oregonstate.edu/events/events-and-projects/osu-food-drive/monetary-donations<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunications.oregonstate.edu%2Fevents%2Fevents-and-projects%2Fosu-food-drive%2Fmonetary-donations&data=05%7C02%7Cbee-alumni%40engr.orst.edu%7C9c8c33288fd5426ee23e08dc21ed425a%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638422550102283604%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xXBIYHI6ZRvWH4P7bgWyM19hiv3uaPQpM5kHMsqL%2B3M%3D&reserved=0>) and that will count towards our annual totals. $5 a month equals 360-480 meals! Thanks so much for helping us support our community! 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