by hungerintervention | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Summer Eats
HIP is serving 200 nutritious meals a day to children and families in need. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and kids are eating summer meals! Now that summer is here, we have officially started our Summer Eats Program, which provides lunches and activities...
by hungerintervention | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog, History
Rhoda Ashley Morrow, one of the founding members of HIP, remembers a tense meeting at DESC that had HIP taking up serving breakfasts at the shelter “every day of the year”! This story is part of a series where we are looking back at our ten-year history...
by hungerintervention | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog
Alex is HIP’s AmeriCorps VISTA Member this year who is responsible for coordinating HIP’s Summer Eats Program in addition to many other responsibilities. Before joining HIP, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin. In this piece, she reflects on how her...
by hungerintervention | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog, Summer Eats, Volunteers
Every year since 2013, HIP has been lucky enough to receive AmeriCorps Summer VISTAs through United Way of King County to help with our Summer Eats Program. These VISTAs serve as full-time employees from June to August, helping with meal prep, community outreach, and...
by hungerintervention | Jun 23, 2018 | Blog, Healthy HIP Packs, Senior Community Meals, Volunteers
In keeping with the tradition of amazing HIP volunteers, allow us to introduce you to Cheryl. Cheryl has been volunteering with HIP since spring 2015, where she started off doing Friday repackaging. Then, about a year and half later when Wednesday Senior Meals...
by Srijan Chakraborty | Jun 1, 2018 | Blog, Food Systems
This was originally published as an OpEd piece for Real Change News here. There is plenty of food to feed everyone in this country. At the same time, millions of people go hungry every day. One factor that contributes to this contradiction is food waste. In the United...
