Reusable tote bags
What items can we take?
Please make sure the bags are in reusable condition!
Reusable woven grocery bags
Woven plastic, fabric, or poly
Reusable cloth grocery bags
Reusable canvas bags
Reusable mesh totes and beach totes
Reusable cooler bags
What isn’t in this category?
Paper grocery bags
Plastic grocery bags
These can go in your plastic film bag!
Wine tote bags with dividers
Dirty, stained, or moldy bags
Bags with holes in them
Food
Keep an eye out for our "non-perishable food" featured category!
Luggage bags
Reusable tote bags.
Do you have a few too many reusable grocery tote bags stashed in your pantry?
Our local partners will use your extra bags to help provide community members with tasty food!
Partnering with Birch Community Services
Birch Community Services helps out Oregonians who are living paycheck to paycheck. They work to provide a community where people can be responsible and accountable for meeting their basic needs, and to equip them with tools to overcome financial difficulty. BCS serves 600 families each week with food and financial education. After a year at Birch, an average family pays off $7,000 of debt and increases their savings by $1,000. Additionally, BCS distributes food to 70 other nonprofit organizations across the Portland Metro area, reaching more than 15,000 people each week.
Partnering with Rose Haven
Rose Haven is the only day shelter in all of Portland serving 3,600 women, children and gender diverse folks experiencing homelessness, poverty and trauma each year. They are a low barrier shelter, with no federal funding, that provides food, supplies, showers, restrooms as well as classes and activities.
Along with these services, they have an advocacy program with licensed social workers and serve as a safe mailing address for their guests. With an intersectional lens, they offer resources, community, and compassionate understanding to all who come to their haven.
Partnering with Blanchet House
Blanchet House supports people experiencing homelessness and adversity by offering free hot meals, clothing, and housing programs. Adult-sized warm winter clothes like waterproof coats, socks, gloves, and sweatshirts are requested daily during the cold months. Blanchet House also offers blankets and sleeping bags to people trying to survive outdoors. In addition to offering basic needs items Blanchet House operates two residential housing programs—in Portland and at a farm in Carlton—that give people the opportunity to regain their physical and mental health, save money for permanent housing, and rejoin the workforce. Most people arrive at these programs with only the clothes on their backs, so they are in need of many items.
Partnering with Clackamas Service Center
Clackamas Service Center (CSC) is the largest food pantry based in Clackamas County and a "one-stop-shop" catering to the needs of unhoused and low-income community members, serving a total of over 8,000 people each month. People experiencing hunger and poverty can meet their basic food, health, and hygiene needs, and connect with supportive services to help them take their next steps toward stability.
As a hub for services, CSC integrates food relief, clothing, showers, and more to expand their impact in the community. With trauma-informed care at the core of their values, CSC seeks to break down barriers to services while centering the inherent dignity and worth of every human being.
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