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My Lake City Adventures
Trisha hanging out with Lucy the cool alligator at Paramount School Park as part of HIP's Summer Eats Program Wow, has it already been 11 months since I started at HIP? It feels like I was just moving here last week and adjusting to life in Seattle. It’s been an...
Tremendously Talented Summer Team
Meet all of our wonderful interns and summer staff. We are very lucky to have such a great crew this year! The work alongside our Summer Eats Associates from The United Way of King County -- you can read about them here. Aleta Hello! I’m Aleta, a Certified...
Showcasing Summer’s Peak Produce
Aleta Storch, HIP Intern, preparing Summer Panzanella at the Lake City Farmers Market HIP is partnering with Seattle Farmers Market at Lake City to showcase healthy and delicious recipes using seasonal fresh produce. Last week we shared Summer Panzanella Salad -- a...
Facing Hunger
Sydney Janeway, an Intern from University of Washington's Carlson Center's Undergraduate Community Based Internship (UCBI) Program, spent almost six months with HIP early this year, specifically focusing on our Healthy HIP Packs program. In this story she reflects on...
Meet our Super Summer Associates!
Give a huge HIP welcome to our Super Summer AmeriCorps Team! This year we have 9 Summer AmeriCorps Associates, thanks to United Way of King County, who are working at HIP to help with Summer Eats 2019. These AmeriCorps all have different backgrounds and talents they...
Stories that connect us
Sam is one of HIP's Nutrition Program Coordinator AmeriCorps members. Her term is ending at the beginning of July with HIP. In this piece she is reflecting on her experience she had running HIP's cooking and nutrition education classes in the community. Cooking...
Twelve tries: from ‘yuck’ to ‘yum’
Trisha, one of HIP's AmeriCorps Nutrition Program Coordinators, recounts her experience in working with kids at the After-School Food Club at Olympic Hills Elementary School. Trisha leading a nutrition education activity with kids at the Olympic Hills Elementary...
One year, many changes
Just over one year ago, on May ninth twenty-eighteen to be exact, I experienced my very first day as a HIPster. For my whole first week, I followed along with the Senior Meals prep and serving volunteers to learn everything I could about the program, and meet as...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Sue
Sue making a dessert in the HIP Kitchen “I love going to HIP on Fridays to cook with the awesome volunteers and staff. I look forward to those 3 hours every week.” Meet Sue, a faithful member of HIP’s Friday Senior Meals prep crew. Sue stumbled upon Hunger...
Big change is possible when we work together
Linda serving lunch in downtown Seattle How far we have come! I am amazed by the work HIP does today in the community. When my friend Rhoda Morrow and I started this organization more than two decades back, we were serving sandwiches in downtown Seattle for those...
