Food Lifeline

Our Dress Down Hunger Silent Auction is LIVE! Start bidding now on items including: 👩🏽🍳 A private chef experience 🛩️ Scenic flight with Kenmore Air 🏨 2 Night stay at your choice of location ☀️ Several outdoor experiences And more! If you are joining us on October 19th, make sure to click the link below to view our available items and get your online bidding account set up so you bid on items as soon as you walk in the door. Not attending Dress Down Hunger? You can still participate by bidding online! Bid here 👉https://lnkd.in/gnRM3xdT

Thank you for joining us and hunger advocates across the country this September for Hunger Action Month! Our Hunger Action Month Advocacy Page was one of our most visited web pages during September. We also raised $65,000 to support our mission, thanks to all of you and a $25,000 match from Gesa Credit Union, plus their food drive donation of 540 pounds of food. We're grateful to everyone single person who advocated, donated, volunteered, and spread the word to help end hunger in our communities. Your support comes at a critical time, as new report from the USDA reveals that 13.5 percent of U.S. households (or about 1 in 7) were food insecure during 2023, marking the highest rate of food insecurity in a decade. The momentum we built together during September will help us advance policies on election day that ensure all our neighbors have the food they need to thrive. 🗳️ Read more about how to vote to end hunger in the upcoming election below, or on our Advocacy Page: https://lnkd.in/gd-Ab8Yf Vote to end hunger on Election Day! 📣 1. Maintain Washington’s Climate Commitment Act by voting No on Initiative 2117. Food Lifeline is endorsing No on 2117, the campaign to defeat Initiative 2117 which seeks to repeal the Climate Commitment Act on Election Day. If the Act is repealed, it would eliminate efforts and funding available for transportation and climate measures, including the newly created Washington Commodity Donation Program. 2. Maintain the State Capital Gains Tax by voting No on Initiative 2109. Washington’s current capital gains tax helps rebalance the state’s regressive tax code, while providing more revenue for community investments. Families experiencing food insecurity benefit from these investments, including expanded affordable childcare and early education, special education, technical and community colleges, and repairing and replacing schools. Food Lifeline is endorsing No on 2109, the campaign to defeat Initiative 2109 on Election Day. #EndHunger #HungerActionMonth #JoinOurMovement #NoOn2117 #No2109 #FoodLifeline

Fogo de Chão opened its first Seattle restaurant last month and we were honored to be part of it! They donated a portion of their opening week sales—$13,997.30!—to Food Lifeline, and presented the donation at their opening party. These funds will provide vital support for our mission to end hunger in Western Washington, helping thousands of families across our region. Fogo de Chao is committed to feeding their communities with respect, transparency, and generosity of spirit. They work to reduce food insecurity by partnering with local food banks, and we're looking forward to growing the partnership.

Special Volunteer Opportunity! 📣 Volunteer with us for our Dress Down Hunger event on Saturday, Oct. 19. This is a fun, low key celebration and fundraiser held in the warehouse at the Hunger Solution Center (815 S. 96th Street, Seattle). Welcome guests & assist with check-in, facilitate games/activities, sell raffle tickets, help with event set up or take-down, etc. Meet staff and volunteers, have fun, and support our mission to end hunger! Shifts: Event set up, 11:00-4:00pm (Ages 18+) Event help, 4:30-10:00pm (greeting/check-in guests, help with games, tracking bids/recording bids, event take-down, other event duties) (Ages 21+) Register to volunteer here: https://lnkd.in/g3fpvEjg A light dinner before the event will be provided for volunteers. We will follow up with more details and role assignments as we get closer to event. Bring a friend or help us spread the word! More info on the event here: https://lnkd.in/gTNHv5fW

The team at Lumen Technologies got their pack on today for those experiencing food insecurity in Western Washington. This project is part of Lumen's 2024 Employee Resource Group Summit. 100 employees from across the US as well as India, Singapore and Poland will join forces to pack 35,000 meals at Lumen Field. This project is in conjunction with The Pack Shack in support of Food Lifeline.

BTW, we have a new website! We created this new site to better support our mission, our partners, our volunteers, our supporters, and our clients. It more fully represents the breadth of the work we are doing in collaboration with others to end hunger in Western Washington—and makes it easier for everyone to access the information that they need. Specific goals of the new site included: -Accessibility. -Streamlined design with clear, clean navigation. -Powerful storytelling, incorporating more visuals. -More content to convey ALL the important work Food Lifeline is engaged in to end hunger. -Highlighted calls to action. -Providing background and learnings about the root causes of hunger, specifically poverty, racial inequity, and social injustice. -Connections for Food Lifeline audiences to the specific, valuable information and resources they need, along with actionable next steps. We are engaged in many areas as we work to end hunger, and this new site highlights information and stories on all of this work. Huge thanks to everyone who helped bring this project to fruition, and to our incredible design team, New Media Campaigns. Explore the new site and let us know what you think! www.foodlifeline.org

📢 Our September 2024 Issue of #QuickBites! New Website, Metallica Donation, Candidate Survey, and more!

Yo ho ho! We're sending out a hearty thank you to Ankrom Moisan, who just hosted their 14th Trivia Night to raise funds for Food Lifeline. 150+ guests played 3 rounds of trivia at the Barrel House in Ballard, raising an amazing $36,766 to support our mission to end hunger in Western Washington! Congratulations to the trivia winner Ecotope, Inc.. All hands were on on deck to make this a successful evening. A big thanks to all the sponsors: AvalonBay Communities Andersen Construction A3 Acoustics, LLP Bill Soderberg Family Therapy BNBuilders Coughlin Porter Lundeen Cross 2 Design Group (C2DG) Ecotope, Inc. GeoEngineering Ltd. IMEG Corp Navix Engineering Patcraft PCL Construction PCS Structural Solutions RDH Building Science Venture General Contracting Vulcan Real Estate

Watch a FRAC webinar recording for an overview of the Healthy #SchoolMeals4All movement, including the research supporting the policy, lessons learned from implementing states, and bills introduced in Congress to expand #schoolmeals. https://lnkd.in/ehxA9gS7

Only two days left to vote Team Husky or Team Cougar! For the #BoeingAppleCup this Saturday, WSU and UW are competing to raise funds for their campus food pantries! In the leadup to the big game, these rivals are coming together to tackle college hunger. Every donation counts as a gift, and all funds support the WSU Campus Food Pantry and the UW Food Pantry. Vote/Donate for your team - now until the 14th! Cougs - https://lnkd.in/gBHGymBu Huskies - https://lnkd.in/g5tQefpK College hunger is a far too common experience on college campuses where the costs of tuition, housing, books, and groceries intersect, and nearly 40% of students don’t get enough to eat. University food pantries provide essential support to students in need, helping them stay focused on their studies.