This Portland food non-profit is feeding Black and brown residents and fighting for reparations
In a former Northeast Portland event space, tables have been cleared out in favor of produce: Stacked boxes labeled “Pablo Munoz Farms” and filled with lettuce, peppers, and rainbow chard sit on the white counter, where DeeDee Hopkins, Equitable Giving Circle’s Community Supported Agriculture director, yanks bottles of olive oil and ground turkey out of paper bags.
Green and Hopkins are running the Equitable Giving Circle weekly pantry, a marketplace where BIPOC Portlanders can pick out groceries, “We’re in the foodie capital of the world, when it comes to sauces, fruits, vegetables, meat-based alternatives,” Green says. “There’s this African proverb, ‘You’re not truly giving by giving from your last’ … We are asking people to divorce themselves from the idea that these items are ‘too good.
Initially, Equitable Giving Circle started with the CSA program: The group would buy CSAs from places like Pablo Munoz Farms and smaller micro-farms
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