Michael Casper sticks a label on an aluminum foil lid.
It’s 5:45 p.m. on a Friday night in November. Soon, volunteers will arrive at the restaurant-grade kitchen in a Northeast Portland church basement.
Casper, founder and co-director of the nonprofit Milk Crate Kitchen, is getting a table set up to package meals. The label he’s sticking on lids lists the meal and ingredients that volunteers will portion into family-size servings…