Get involved with Sunshine Division’s emergency food relief program
- Kellena Collier
- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 2, 2022
How to help
Sunshine Division currently operates out of a north Portland warehouse and has a vacant grocery store in Wilsonville that serves as their primary shipping and receiving hub.
They have tremendous flexibility for all volunteer groups and could schedule small groups of roughly 15 volunteers to build food boxes, or as few as five volunteers to sort food, any time between 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
About Sunshine Division
The nonprofit Sunshine Division has its roots in Portland, near the start of the Great Depression. It was 1922, the economy had taken a dip, and the City of Portland had to lay off more than 40 police officers.
To compensate for this loss, Mayor George Baker gathered volunteer civilians to serve in emergency situations; a group eventually called the Portland Police Reserve.
The Reserve found themselves responding to widespread poverty in Portland by collecting food to fill Christmas baskets that were delivered to Portlanders in need.
More than nine decades after those early humanitarian efforts by uniformed and volunteer police – and still in a vital partnership with Portland Police Bureau – Sunshine Division continues its fundamental mission: to provide emergency food and clothing relief year-round to Portland families and individuals in need.
Find more ways to serve on JustServe.org.
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