The Pongo Fund Pet Food Bank is proud to have been selected as one of over 100 nonprofits in the 2013 Willamette Week Give!Guide.

The Pongo Fund is Oregon’s Pet Food Bank. We work for the day when no dog or cat goes hungry because their families cannot afford to keep them fed. By providing emergency pet food assistance to those in honest need, we succeed in reducing shelter populations and keeping people and their pets together. Because when people go hungry, their pets go hungry too.

In 2009 a social worker told us the story of two small children who saw their family give up their beloved dog because they could not afford dog food; these children then feared they would be given up as well.

Since that day our volunteer-driven group has donated 5,000,000 meals of nutritious, high-quality pet food for some 50,000 pets belonging to more than 20,000 families. Pets that are still safe at home with their families and not in shelters. We’ve even helped spay and neuter some 1,000 animals; drastically reducing shelter populations and ending needless euthanasia. Because sometimes it’s just a simple bowl of kibble that can be the force to both keep a family together and save the lives of the animals they love.

Won’t you please help us now?

Sit. Stay. Eat. Live. www.thepongofund.org