Organizations Supporting Our Local Food System

Ecotrust was imagined as a natural system. For over 30 years, we have embodied this vision through overlapping cycles of growth, adaptation, decomposition, and regeneration. 

1000 Friends of Oregon works with Oregonians to enhance quality of life by building livable urban and rural communities, protecting family farms and forests, and conserving natural areas.

Friends of Family Farmers advances policies and programs that protect, promote and sustain resilient and economically viable community agricultural systems in Oregon.

At Urban Gleaners we collect delicious, fresh food before it can go to waste. And we get it to people who need it. Pure and simple.

Growing Gardens is a Portland, Oregon based 501(c)3 nonprofit using the experience of growing food in schools, backyards, and correctional facilities to cultivate healthy and equitable communities.

Founded in the early 1990s the Pacific NW CSA Coalition (formerly PACSAC) is committed to providing education about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), supporting farmers who provide quality local food to our communities, and increasing access to healthy food for underserved communities. PNWCSA has played a key role in advancing CSA in the region, which currently includes more than 35,000 households and more than 75 CSA member farms. PNWCSA is a 501(c3) nonprofit organization.

Oregon Agricultural Trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of Oregon’s economy, communities, and landscapes.

The Oregon Community Food System Network (OCFSN) is a 501(c)(3) made up of a collaboration of nonprofit organizations and allies dedicated to strengthening local and regional food systems to deliver better economic, social, health, and environmental outcomes across the state.

The Black Food Sovereignty Coalition (BFSC) mission is to ignite Black and Brown communities to participate as owners and movement leaders within food systems, placemaking, and economic development. We serve as a collaboration hub for Black and Brown communities to confront the systemic barriers that make food, place and economic opportunities inaccessible to us. BFSC is focused on meeting these barriers with creative, innovative, and sustainable solutions.

Join a community of people who have committed to community giving through small donations, event fundraising, volunteering, and community-building. Our aim is to empower BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Communities in Portland by leveraging economic deposits from communities of privilege to empower BIPOC Communities and begin to move towards economic equity. Shifting economic power will create ripples of real change.

Farmers Market Fund’s Double Up Food Bucks program provides a dollar for dollar match on SNAP purchases at over 90 Oregon Farmers Markets, up to $20 per day. When shoppers spend $20 in SNAP, they receive $20 free in DUFB to spend on fresh fruits and vegetables, doubling their buying power at the market. Double Up is a triple win: families bring home more fresh produce, more money goes directly to small, local producers, and local economies thrive.

Our mission is to empower farmworkers and working Latinx families in Oregon by building community, increasing Latinx representation in elections, and policy advocacy on both the national and state levels.