Our Annual Fund drive is currently underway. Please consider making a donation to help provide meals to homebound seniors in our community. You can make a safe, secure donation by clicking the Donate button which is secured by PayPal.
My friend, Zeke, is one of the people your caring support has helped in the past. Zeke, who is 87, was injured while serving in WWII and can no longer drive, walk or cook for himself. Like so many elderly people in Jackson and Josephine Counties, Zeke lives alone and needs someone to bring him a hot, nutritious meal, a bright smile and the gift of friendship. Your donation to Food & Friends is a lifeline to hundreds of seniors, homebound and disabled citizens in our community. Without Food & Friends, many would not have the proper nutrition to maintain good health.
Your tax deductible donation to Food & Friends helps make it possible for homebound seniors in our region to avoid the trauma and financial burden of more costly nursing home care. For some who rely on Food & Friends, the deliveries help them temporarily while they recover from an illness or surgery. Others need help for longer periods of time. We can not do it alone.
Please, help us help our seniors with your donation of $30 or more. That’s all it takes to help bring nutritious meals to one senior for a month.
___ $30 helps to provide meals to one senior for one month
___ $60 helps to provide meals to one senior couple for one month
___ $150 supplies a senior’s weekend frozen meals for a year
___ $250 will support an entire home delivery route for one month
___ (Other amount – whatever your donation, on behalf of the many seniors served by Food & Friends, thank you for your support!)
The following link will take you to PayPal account administered by the Southern Oregon Center for Community Partnerships and your donation will go directly to Food & Friends. All donations are tax deductible and you will receive an acknowledgment letter for your contribution.
What is Food & Friends?
Food & Friends is the Meals on Wheels and Senior Meals Program of Jackson and Josephine Counties.
What does Food & Friends do?
Food & Friends offers:
Nutritious hot and frozen meals for seniors at community meal sites
Visits from friendly volunteers who deliver nutritious Meals on Wheels
Regular contact with someone who cares
Support for adults who have long or short term need for Meals on Wheels delivered to their home
Each hot or frozen meal contains a minimum of one-third of the recommended daily allowance of required nutrients. Diabetic and low-salt meals are available upon request.
Who is eligible for meals?
All seniors 60 and over and their spouses are welcome at congregate meal sites located in Jackson and Josephine Counties
Meal Site Locations
Central Point, Gold Hill, and Phoenix - Home Delivery distribution sites only
Ashland: Ashland Senior Activity Center, 1699 Homes Avenue
Cave Junction: Josephine County Building, 102 S Redwood Highway
Eagle Point: Senior Citizens Community Center, 121 Loto Street
Grants Pass: 4-H Extension Building, 215 Ringuette Street
Jacksonville: Jacksonville IOOF Hall, Main & Oregon Streets
Medford: Lions Sight and Hearing Center, 228 North Holly
Merlin: Merlin Community Center, 109 Acorn Street
Rogue River: Rogue River Community Center, 132 Broadway
Shady Cove: St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 95 Cleveland Street
Talent: Talent Community Center, 206 E Main Street
Wilderville: Wilderville United Methodist Church, 7970 Redwood Highway
Wolf Creek: Wolf Creek Community Building, 100 Railroad Avenue
For individual meal site location days and hours of operation, please call 541-664-6674.
Who is eligible for Meals on Wheels?
Homebound seniors 60 and over who need help with meal preparation may receive Meals on Wheels delivered to their homes by volunteers.
Adults with disabilities who need help with meal preparation and who meet eligibility criteria may receive home delivered meals.
What does it cost?
Meals are available to all seniors 60 years and over and to qualified younger adults with disabilities. Food & Friends is a donation based program and participants are asked to donate what they can comfortably afford for meals. No one will be refused meals due to lack of abiity to donate.
Seniors 60 and over who eat at the meal sites or receive home delivered meals are asked to contribute according to their ability. A donation of $2.75 per meal is suggested. Those who are receiving Senior Services may qualify to have meals delivered at no cost, and should contact their case manager about eligibility.
Adults with disabilities who are on Medicaid should contact their case manager about eligibility.
People under 60 who do not qualify for a subsidized meal are asked to pay $6.75, the full cost of their meal.
What are the meal choices?
Each hot meal contains a minimum of one-third of the recommended daily allowance of required nutrients.
Hot and frozen meals contain an entree, two vegetables or fruit, milk, breat and a dessert.
Volunteers are always welcome! Many people are needed to deliver Meals on Wheels and to help prepare meals each day. Volunteering for Food & Friends is not only vital to our success, it is FUN! For more information or to go on a "Ride Along" please call 541-734-9505. We will be happy to discuss all the various ways you can vounteer to help our neighbors and community members.
Contributing to Food & Friends
Give a tax-deductible gift, make a contribution in memory of a loved one, or send a gift in honor of a friend or relative. Consider making a bequest in your will. Click here to see a brochure with instructions on how to make a bequest.
Food & Friends Facts
Volunteers deliver more than 14,000 Meals on Wheels each month to individuals living independently at home, who, for health reasons, cannot make their own meals.
Food & Friends serves 5,000 meals a month at our 15 meal sites.
Low sodium and diabetic meals are available, both hot and frozen.
For 2008, Food & Friends volunteers served over 230,000 meals to more than 3,800 people - including 170,000 meals delivered to homes and 60,000 served at dining sites all over Jackson and Josephine Counties.
Good nutrition and social interaction are key components of staying healthy as one grows older. Poor nutrition can result in a significant loss of both physical and mental health.
Food & Friends Staff:
Evelyn Kinsella, Nutrition Program Manager, 541-734-9505, ext 3
Jane Whaley, Development Director, 541-664-6674, ext 387
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