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Healthy aging for mind and body
Healthy meals and fun physical activities help seniors stay healthy and happy "I never danced when I was young, but now that I’m an oldie I always dance." You may not think about dancing when we talk about our Senior Meals Program at the Lake City Community Center,...
Summer of Food and Fun is ON!
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...
A tense meeting at the Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC)
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 since the...
Have you eaten well?
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 experience in...
Meet this year’s Summer VISTAs!
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...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Cheryl
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...
An internalized economic trauma: Capitalism says food waste is OK
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...
Don’t let Congress take food away from two million people
The Farm Bill failed to pass the House 0n May 18th. However, unfortunately the fight is not over. Please continue to #SNAPback to keep food on the tables of millions of Americans. We wrote to you earlier about the Farm Bill (H.R. 2) that was introduced in the House...
An unexpected update
The following is an account from our Meal Program Manager, Darcy Buendia. Months ago, Srijan wrote about one of the diners at our senior community meal. In that telling we called him James. James had worked in construction until an injury kept him from work. Without a...
Introducing Bryn Robertson: Newest addition to our team!
With the expansion of HIP's Senior Community Meals Program, we needed to expand our staff as well. We are excited to have Bryn join us starting this month as our Senior Meal Program Coordinator. Here is a brief intro from Bryn in her own words. Hello everyone! I’m...
