Mike Gibson, Director of Linn Benton Food Share (left) and OSU President Ed Ray (right) team up to present awards to OSU Departments and students who competed to raise money and food for Linn Benton Food Share. A representative of the S.I.F.E. (Student In Free Enterprise) receives two awards. Oregon State University broke all records with 540,000 pounds of food collected in 2011
Linn Benton Food Share Director, Mike Gibson presented awards to OSU Departments and Student Groups who competed to collect food and raise money. Each year during February the University community plans a wide variety of food and fund-raising activities to help the hungry. This effort is in conjunction with the Governor's State Employees Food Drive. The resources gathered by county Extension offices, Experiment Stations, Cascades Campus and Centers associated with OSU go to their local food banks. Proceeds from the OSU Corvallis campus benefit the non-profit agencies served by Linn-Benton Food Share. These agencies include local food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, day care centers, shelter homes, and gleaning groups in Linn and Benton counties. Linn Benton Food Share is a department of Community Services Consortium. Food Share has a mission that Everybody Eats.
