Join the Fight to End Childhood Hunger this Holiday Season
Childhood hunger is a growing problem and over 400,000 children in Washington State go hungry every day. The recession has made a deep mark on Washington families and the number of hungry households...
View ArticleMake a Resolution to Help End Childhood Hunger
While most people commit to making a fresh start in the New Year, too many hungry children in Washington will still go to bed with an empty stomach. Economic uncertainty and the rising cost of living...
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Feeding Hungry Children: It’s time to GiveBIG
Great news…FeedWashington is participating in the Seattle Foundation’s annual GiveBIG event on May 2, 2012! An exciting, one-day, online charitable giving event, the Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG is...
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Trader Joe’s Home Run Program – Go Mariners!
Baseball season is underway and Trader Joe’s has signed up with Mariners Care, the Seattle Mariners non-profit foundation, to help fight hunger! How? Every time a Seattle Mariners player hits a 350’...
View ArticleWhy Dumpster Diving Won’t Work and What We Can Do About It
As I cleaned out my refrigerator last night, I thought about the recent documentary “Dumpster Diving to Solve Hunger.” In this segment, HLN news anchor Jane Velez-Mitchel proposes dumpster diving as a...
View ArticleSummer: The Peak Season for Childhood Hunger
According to the Seattle Public School Schedule, June 22 is the last day of school. It will also be the last day that nearly 1 in 4 children in Washington State will receive a school breakfast and...
View ArticleHungry Children Get Cold Too
Cold weather is here. As I put on my coat this morning and got ready to face the chill outside, it hit me – hungry families that can’t afford food probably can’t afford warm coats for their children...
View ArticleActually Solving Childhood Hunger
I am excited to announce that Feed Washington recently reached the milestone of having generated over 500,000 meals for the hungry kids in our state. While I’m proud of this accomplishment, there is...
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The Face of Hunger in Washington State in 2013
For many of us, the visual that comes to mind when we think of what hunger looks like, are the pictures that came out of Ethiopia during the famine of the mid-1980′s. Those pictures of starving...
View ArticleFeeding Children Across Washington State!
As we reach the end of 2013 I would like to thank Feed Washington donors for making this year one of our most impactful years ever. Your generosity produced over 58,000 meals for the hungry kids of our...
View ArticleFreeganism and Food Waste
“Freegan” is a derivation of ‘vegan’ that’s used to describe people who prefer to forage or dumpster dive for their food. While we’ll never feed our state’s kids out a dumpster, this article (Warning:...
View ArticlePope Francis Demands a Just Distribution of Food
Feed Washington supports Pope Francis’ demand that we address the “paradox of plenty”, where there is food enough for everyone, but children are still hungry. Read more here:...
View ArticleAn Article About Feed Washington in 425 Business Magazine
Thank you to 425 Business for this article on Feed Washington’s work in partnership with the Ballard Food Bank to feed the hungry kids in Ballard, and the support we’re getting from Sterling, Johnston...
View ArticleFeed Washington is Solving Childhood Hunger in Ballard! (and we’re coming to...
Feed Washington is simplifying things and taking a direct route to ending childhood hunger in our state. We’re going community by community and school by school, finding the hungry kids in each school,...
View ArticleMajority of Kids in U.S. Public Schools are in Poverty Reports Washington Post.
Childhood hunger is a growing national problem. This article presents new analysis of the federal data showing that for the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students...
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