SNAP Benefits Disruption

SNAP benefits have been restored—but Oregon’s food bank network is still stretched thin.
Families are visiting pantries at record levels. You can help keep shelves full.

Every contribution helps someone eat today, this week, or this month. Every dollar feeds someone.

     

Here’s how you can help:

Most needed items:

  • tuna
  • canned chicken
  • soups
  • peanut butter
  • canned vegetables and fruits
  • ready-to-eat meals (ravioli, stew, baked beans)
  • pasta

Fast Facts

  • Oregon acted overnight to secure full November SNAP funding—families awoke Friday to fully restored benefits.
  • The federal shutdown continues, and December benefits are not yet guaranteed.
  • NeighborImpact is the regional food bank for Central Oregon, supplying food to 57 partner pantries and 15 mobile pantry sites across Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties and Warm Springs.
  • Because NeighborImpact buys food in bulk, we can stretch every donated dollar threefold compared to grocery prices.
  • The network was already serving record numbers of people with a reduced food supply after the loss of federal commodity distributions in April.
  • For every meal provided by food banks, SNAP provides nine. No food bank system can replace that loss.
  • SNAP fuels local economies—every SNAP dollar creates $1.50 to $1.80 in grocery spending.
  • Losing one month of benefits will pull about $7 million out of Central Oregon’s stores, distributors, and farms.
  • SNAP makes up about 12% of grocery sales nationwide—but in stores that serve low-income urban or rural areas, it can be more than 60%
  • NeighborImpact is mobilizing on every front—raising emergency funds, providing grocery cards to Head Start families, drawing down reserve funds, purchasing extra food, and asking other entities to match those efforts.
  • Every dollar matters. Every dollar feeds someone.

     

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