by hungerintervention | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog, History
Special thanks to Alex Nguyen for being our volunteer photographer at the...
by hungerintervention | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog, History, Volunteers
During HIP’s ten-year anniversary event, former Executive Director, Kate Ortiz, recounts her experience in the old HIP office. In my working career before HIP, I had always had unconventional work spaces. A past office space always ran 10-20 degrees hotter than...
by hungerintervention | Nov 20, 2018 | Blog, History
Ever wonder how HIP got its name? Well wonder no more! Allow us to take you on a journey through HIP’s history, starting from its nascence in the 1990s. Back in the early ’90s, Linda Berger (pictured above) began working with Operation: Sack...
by hungerintervention | Oct 16, 2018 | Blog, History
Barb, one of our regular meal Senior Meal volunteers, recounts her experience marching with HIP in the Lake City Seafair Parade a few years ago. It was summertime in Lake City, so the weather was beautiful. The salmon festival parade was coming up and HIP needed...
by hungerintervention | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog, History
Even before HIP was officially an organization, we struggled with transportation. We really needed a cargo van to transport Northwest Harvest, Food Lifeline, and other food donations safely. For some years our personal Subaru Legacy station wagon did the job, which we...
by hungerintervention | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, History, News / Press Release
Did you know that Hunger Intervention Program (HIP) as an organization was born in 2008? That means this year we get to celebrate ten years of serving and building community! So much has changed since the time we started. Many new programs have taken shape and grown...