Madras Community Food Pantry
Madras, Oregon
370 SW Culver Hwy, Madras, OR 97741
(541) 325-1747
Hunger is a story we can end.
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Year-round
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, at 370 SW Culver Hwy, Madras, OR 97741
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Free Food Market on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
Sign in at 4:00 pm and the door opens at 4:30 pm - until all the food is gone.
Jefferson County Food Project
Sharing Food. Building Community
An innovative way to fight hunger in our community
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You Can Help – We Make it Easy
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When you are shopping for your family, you can purchase one or two extra items of nonperishable food.
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Place those items in the provided green bag.
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Our volunteer will collect the bags of healthy nonperishable food left outside their front doors, every 2nd Saturday of an even month and deliver it to the Madras Community Food Pantry.
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They will leave another green bag for the next time. It’s that easy!
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Join the Support Team
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We’ve got lots of big and small jobs to do! Help with anything from unloading bags of food to making phone calls to joining our Steering Committee.
Be a Neighborhood Coordinator
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It takes about one hour a month to coordinate your neighborhoods.
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Pick up donor’s green bags every two months and deliver them to Madras Community Food Pantry.
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Leave another green bag.
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Be a Food Donor
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Fill the green bags provided with nonperishable food and put it outside your front door. That’s all there is to it!
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One full green bag equals about 10 meals. We combine your bag with other neighbor’s bags and together we can feed the community!​
Save the date:
FESTIVAL OF TREES
An Opportunity for us to come together to sponsor a great cause!
Save the date for Friday, December 4, 2026, at 5:00 PM at the Jefferson County Event Complex for our annual Decorated Christmas Tree Auction and Dinner. Decorated trees will be donated by local businesses, service groups, and individuals. A prime rib dinner, done by Joe Davis of the Black Bear Diner, will be served.
Decorated Christmas Trees will be auctioned off, along with donated Silent Auction items.
independence from hunger proceeds to benefit the madras community food pantry.
The Independence from Hunger Food Drive (IFHFD) took place from June 24th - through July 31st, at Madras’ Grocery Outlet.
A total of $830.00 was collected by their cashiers specifically for the Madras Community Food Pantry. These monies will be used to buy turkeys for our Annual Thanksgiving Dinner Box Giveaway.
A Grand Re-opening will take place on August 15th at Grocery Outlet. Prizes will be given to customers coming into the store that day. The event will be promoted on social media, via Facebook and Instagram.
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The Chamber of Commerce will be there at noon for a ribbon cutting and large check presentation advertising the partners who sponsored the IFHFD. A photographer from the Madras Pioneer will take photos at noon.
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Many thanks to the sponsors of the food drive: T S & S – Ford, Mid-Oregon Credit Union, Dreams Realty, Mike Ahern Realty, Cove Electric, Madras Sanitary and Busy Bee.
Our MISSION
To help people out of poverty by alleviating hunger and food insecurity for those persons in Jefferson County and the surrounding area who are at risk.
How it all began
Our volunteers started handing food out of the office window in 1995. We evolved into a shopping pantry in 2016 and became our own 501c3 nonprofit in 2021.
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Help us today by donating.
"Fighting hunger to build stronger communities. That’s what people of action do."
— Rotary