Annual Lincoln Alumni Food Drive

12/17/2025

We're looking for volunteers to help fill food boxes on Friday and deliver boxes on Saturday. We need all the drivers we can get!
Please help us to ensure that hundreds of families throughout Portland have access to supplemental food this holiday season.

Remember, Cards Care!

It's that time of year again for the Annual Lincoln Alumni Food Drive! Please join your fellow Cards in keeping this amazing Lincon tradition going!! With your help we will deliver 500 food boxes to families in need throughout Portland. 1. FOOD BOX FILLING: We need box fillers to fill the food boxes...

12/02/2025

It’s Giving Tuesday and we need your help. Please join your fellow Cards in supporting the 12th annual LHS Alumni Food Drive and help us to meet our fundraising goals of $15,000. Together we can ensure that hundreds of families throughout Portland have food on the table this holiday season. Donate now—every dollars helps! All funds go directly to purchasing food; there is no overhead. Remember: Cards care!

Please donate to the annual holiday food drive - sponsored by the Sisters and Brothers of Color and Lincoln Alumni Association. For the past nine years , the Lincoln Alumni Food Drive has brought together students, parents , st a ff , and alumni to help Portland ' s hungry - including Lincoln fami...

11/23/2025

A Lincoln High School English teacher once wrote on her chalkboard that the purpose of life is:

“to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate,
to have it make some difference that you have lived…”

To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Cards care.” There’s a long tradition at Lincoln of giving back to the community, and this year, more than ever, our community is in need. For the past twelve years, the Lincoln Alumni Food Drive has brought together students, parents, staff, and alumni to help Portland’s hungry—including Lincoln families in need—during the holidays.

Please join your fellow Cards in supporting this worthy cause and help us reach our fundraising goal of $15,000. Together we can ensure that hundreds of families throughout Portland have access to supplemental food this holiday season. Donate now—every dollar helps—and then reach out to a classmate and ask them to do the same. Let's see of we can get participation from every graduating class.

Will you be part of this amazing community and join fellow donors in supporting this year’s food drive? All funds go directly to purchasing food; there is no overhead.

Donate now
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Or mail a check to: LHSAA Food Drive, 1750 SW Salmon, Portland, OR 97205

For more information or to volunteer as a food box driver on December 20, contact Brian Lamson at [email protected]. Sponsored by the Lincoln Alumni Association and the Black Student Union.

This year’s food drive is dedicated to the memory of Bobby Keerins and Glenn McMath

12/17/2024

The 11th annual LHS Alumni Food Drive is just a few days away and we need your help!

Please join your fellow Cards in supporting this worthy cause and help us reach our fundraising goal of $20,000. Together we can ensure that hundreds of families throughout Portland have food on the table this holiday season. Donate now—every dollar helps—and then reach out to a classmate and ask them to do the same.

Remember: Cards care! Will you be part of this amazing community and join fellow donors in supporting this year’s food drive?

Donate online: https://tinyurl.com/2rrvjsw2

Or mail a check to: LHSAA Food Drive, 1750 SW Salmon, Portland, OR 97205

For more information, contact Brian Lamson at [email protected]

12/03/2024

It’s Giving Tuesday and we need your help. Please join your fellow Cards in supporting the 11th annual LHS Alumni Food Drive and help us to achieve our fundraising goals of $20,000. Together we can ensure that hundreds of families throughout Portland have food on the table this holiday season. Donate now—every dollars helps! All funds go directly to purchasing food; there is no overhead. Remember: Cards care!

Donate online: https://www.schoolpay.com/pay/for/Annual-Alumni-Food-Drive-Donation/SeCm0UI

Or mail a check to: LHSAA Food Drive, 1750 SW Salmon, Portland, OR 97205

11/26/2024

The LHS Alumni Food Drive is less than a month away! Calling all Cards: we need drivers to help deliver food boxes on Saturday, 12/21, starting around 9 am. Grab a friend or family member and help us out. It’s fine to just show up that morning, but if you know for sure that you're coming, please email [email protected] so that we can get a headcount.

Can’t make it but still want to help? Make a donation today at https://www.schoolpay.com/pay/for/Annual-Alumni-Food-Drive-Donation/SeCm0UI

Every dollar helps and all funds go directly to purchasing food for the boxes. Thank you!

11/16/2024

Calling all Cards! The LHS Alumni Food Drive is just over a month away. Please donate what you can to ensure a brighter holiday season for hundreds of our fellow citizens. Do it today! And then mark your calendar for the morning of Saturday, December 21. We need volunteers to help load and deliver food boxes. Remember: Cards care!

12/23/2023

Come help us deliver food boxes. We need drivers now. Enter on SW SALMON AND 17th. Remember: Cards Care!!

12/15/2023

Details for LHS Alumni Food Drive volunteers (and it's never too late to volunteer!):

Packing Boxes on Friday December 22nd.

Event Location: Lincoln High School 1700 SW Salmon St
First floor common area

Available Parking: Street Parking in the general area
1:00pm to 4:00 pm
Arrival Time: 1:00
Check-In Area: Main Office
Volunteer Duties: Packing 500 boxes
Contact: Brian Lamson 503-319-2725 [email protected]

School is in session so we should have some extra help from the students!

Delivery of Boxes on Saturday December 23rd.

Event Location Lincoln High School 1700 SW Salmon St
9:00am to noon

Enter on Salmon Street at 17th and exit on Jefferson.

Volunteers will ask you how many boxes you would like to deliver, we will load your car and give you the addresses where to deliver the boxes.

*If you can help load cars on Saturday please let Brian know.

Contact Brian Lamson 503-319-2725 [email protected]

Please call if you are having trouble with an address or would like to make a second trip.

12/15/2023

Please join the flock of Cardinals who are helping to ensure that hundreds of families throughout Portland have food on the table this holiday season. Donate now to help us reach our goal of $20,000. Every dollar helps! Remember—Cards care!

11/27/2023

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday and we need you to step up! Please join your fellow Cards in supporting this year’s LHS Alumni Food Drive and in helping us to achieve our fundraising goal of $20,000. Together we can help ensure a brighter holiday season for hundreds of our Portland neighbors. Every dollar helps—thank you!

01/29/2023

Dear Friend of LHS,

Thank you for your generous contribution to the 9th annual Lincoln Food Drive! Although we were not able to physically pack boxes again this year, we were determined to help families in the Portland area with their food insecurity. We raised just over $10,000 which allowed us to distribute 500 gift cards to local organizations whose mission is the same as ours: feeding our community. None of this would have been possible without committed LHS students, parents, staff, and alumni.

We’re looking at making our 2023 food drive our most successful ever. Interested in joining the planning committee or in volunteering? Please get in touch with Brian Lamson at [email protected]. Our planning and fundraising efforts for this year will kick off soon; stay tuned for details and perhaps some surprises.

Thanks for your continued support and for showing once again that Cards care!

With warm wishes,
Lincoln Alumni Association