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Food banks, Lions and Boys & Girls Clubs describe emergency hub roles and gaps
Summary
Representatives from Oregon Food Bank, Lions Clubs and Boys & Girls Clubs told the committee they serve as community lifelines—running relief plans, satellite warehouses, volunteer kits and club sites that can function as shelters—while highlighting logistics, fuel, staffing and structural vulnerabilities that need planning and funding.
Speakers from three statewide networks described how nonprofit and volunteer organizations slot into Oregon’s disaster response architecture and where they see operational vulnerabilities.
Chris Chuklet, associate director of distribution and warehousing at the Oregon Food Bank, said the network maintains written disaster relief plans at major branches, a quarterly disaster response meeting cadence and an incident command approach tied into state emergency management. He noted practical constraints: many branches rely on road transport and could…
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