Educate Orange - In April, the IOC threw its funnest and best-yet "Celebrate Citrus", an in-grove party for the public thrown with the City of Redlands to welcome in the new orange season.  We then helped get the orange back into San Bernardino's National Orange Show by donating 6 tons of oranges to be made into those historic citrus sculptures and displays for which the show was once famous.  Most importantly, the IOC gave speaker programs and gave away "100-year-old" oranges at a plethora of community events from Claremont to Beaumont, spreading the word of our special citrus heritage.

Feed the Hungry - In a year of cutbacks from food donors to organizations that support the needy, we put the IOC gleaning program into OVERDRIVE!  This year this IOC and its farm2school partner Old Grove Orange, donated 170 tons of fresh citrus to the inland empire needy, almost doubling its contribution of 91 tons last year.  We have turned IOC into the fresh-produce pillar of our community's emergency food network.  The next time you help out a Family Service or a Salvation Army, if there are oranges on the table you can be sure that they're coming from your IOC.  IOC is Inland Harvest's largest overall donor, and is the largest donor of produce not based on the tax dollar in the Inland Empire!

Save Grove - In 2008, IOC expanded to Rialto, Moreno Valley, and Fontana.  Between the IOC's 1294 eating families and Old Grove Orange's farm2school deliveries, we have harvested 518 tons of citrus from 25 growers located from Montclair out to Highland, Redlands to Riverside, helping make those groves sustainable in our neighborhoods far into the future!  518 tons is more that twice as many oranges as last year!

Not bad for a grass-roots organization with no financial support other than dues and YOUR donations!!