About

Rogue Food Unites (RFU) uses food to heal individuals and communities during times of crisis.

RFU coordinates with locally-invested food businesses to provide fresh, nutritious, and shelf-stable ingredients, assembled and delivered to our communities.

While meeting the fundamental human right for food, RFU strengthens local economies: fostering collaboration, preserving jobs for residents, building resilience, and ensuring food security and sovereignty in Oregon.

RFU was formed in 2020 out of the Almeda and Obenchain fires and the impacts of COVID-19 on local communities.

Within a short time, RFU began contracting with the State of Oregon to supply hot meals, food boxes, and solidarity cards in Deschutes, Douglas, Klamath, Josephine, and Jackson Counties.

RFU has provided more than 2,000,000 meals to displaced and impacted people, including 600,700 hot meals and 38,756 meal kits and provision boxes. We also have provided fresh produce to more than 100,000 individuals.

Through our partnerships with regional restaurants, farms, vendors, and stores, we have recirculated nearly $18 million into our local economies since September 2020.

Our evolving goal is to provide stable support beyond the immediate recovery process to meet the growing and persistent food insecurity affecting our communities, through strategic partnerships and collaborative service delivery.

RFU serves people freely, no questions asked, to receive provisions to feed themselves and their family. RFU does not require any paperwork, ID, proof of loss or impact, or any other documentation to receive food supplies. RFU serves foods that provide comfort as well as nutrition.