Loaves & Fishes Centers Annual Luncheon raised more than $360,000 in just one hour to help feed provide hot meals to seniors in the Portland-Vancouver metro area. The Annual Luncheon is the agency’s single largest fundraising event of the year. Matching funds from the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund and the John and Lois Tennant Foundation helped to reach the impressive fundraising goal.
More than 800 area business leaders and volunteers gathered in the Oregon Convention Center on May 14 to hear Marcus Lampros, cofounder of Lampros Steel, deliver a keynote address. Mr. Lampros has delivered Meals-On-Wheels in the Sellwood neighborhood for more than 20 years and is past member of the agency’s Board of Directors.
Brian Rohter, CEO of New Seasons Market, served as master of ceremonies. The Compassion for Seniors Award, given annually to a volunteer who has provided outstanding service to the seniors in our community, was presented to Tony Leineweber of the Portland State University Foundation.
Sponsors of the event included: Columbia Distributing, Food Services of America, Kaiser Permanente, Davis Wright Tremaine, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, Gramor Development, Hot Pepper Studios, Bank of the Cascades, DeJarnett Sales, Farmland Foods, Glacier Northwest, Integra Telecom, INVESCO, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, Suburban Door, Miller Family Holdings, Western Family and Peter and Julie Stott. Randy Irvine of Food Services of America chaired the volunteer committee that put on the event.
Since 1970 Loaves & Fishes Centers has provided a nutritional and social lifeline for seniors through 35 meal sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties and Meals-On-Wheels delivery to homebound seniors. With the help of more than 7,500 volunteers, the nonprofit, secular agency now serves 5,000 meals daily and more than 1.3 million meals each year. Loaves & Fishes Centers was named one of the “Ten Most Admired Companies” in Oregon in the non profit category by The Portland Business Journal in 2006.
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