Blog
Introducing our newest Board Member!
Please welcome our newest Board Member -- Carrie Bates. We are excited to have her join our team! Carrie is a Corporate Relations Officer at United Way of King County where she has worked since 2014 bringing people together to build a stronger community where people...
What we don’t see can hurt us
Everybody knows about the elephant in the room we don't talk about, but what about the invisible gorilla we don't see? If you haven't seen the video, I highly recommend it. It blew my mind when I saw it for the first time. Recently I read an article in the New York...
Earl’s rolls: baked with love
Darcy, HIP's Meal Program Manager, introduces one of our volunteers, Earl, who bakes fresh bread rolls from scratch for our Senior Meals Program. I consider myself a confident cook. Or at least you would hope so considering I run our Community Senior Meal...
Meet HIP’s new AmeriCorps members!
Kelly and Heather, our two new AmeriCorps members, joined HIP at the beginning of October just as our new school year programming was picking up steam! We are excited to have them join our team. Please welcome them and stop by to say 'hi'! Kelly Bounxayavong Guess...
Power is the understanding that we can create change
One unexpected comment captured my attention as I was reading through our Healthy HIP Pack surveys from last year. Many of the comments are just one word or phrase like “good”, “very good”, “it’s helpful” and “Thank you”. I understand that. You can guess the number of...
A Love Letter from Grace
Grace was one of the AmeriCorps members with HIP for the 2016-17 program year. Her term with HIP ended last month. This is a letter she wrote to us reflecting on her time with HIP. What to say as my time has ended and I must leave? What to say about the people HIP has...
Kelly’s Meadowbrook View Apartments Adventure
Meadowbrook View (MBV) is one of HIP’s newest sites so no one really knew what the site or the kids would be like. By chance I was left with MBV after everyone chose the sites they wanted, and I was willing to be the first human test subject for this site. I was the...
Lunch at the Library
My time as a summer meals member at HIP is coming to an end; however, it has been a rewarding experience to serve and interact with the community members in the Lake City and Shoreline area. My main site has been serving lunch at the Shoreline Library and it has been...
A Second Summer with HIP
At the end of the 2016-2017 academic year my supervisor, Lydia Landrey, asked me what I wanted to do this summer to help with United Way of King County’s Summer Food Invasion. Without missing a beat, I asked to work with the Hunger Intervention Program again. After...
Moving from starving to thriving
"If food assistance went away, I would starve to death" commented one of the diners at our Senior Meals last month talking about what it would mean if this program went away. We were talking to some of the guests who join us for the meal regularly. We were trying to...
