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Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Bruce
Welcome to another volunteer spotlight! This month we’re learning about Bruce, but if you’ve helped at our Healthy HIP Packs packing parties you probably have already met him. Bruce has been with HIP since the beginning of the HIP Packs program, and has been one of...
Announcement: Moving to a shared leadership at HIP
Greetings! I have some exciting news to share with you today. At Hunger Intervention Program (HIP), we think of food as a tool to build and share power with communities - values that also apply to how we work internally at HIP. On behalf of the Board of Directors of...
HIP Celebrates Pumpkin Palooza
Every year, Kaffeeklatsch Seattle hosts the Pumpkin Palooza, a free community event celebrating Halloween. At this event, community partners from around Lake City come together and provide fun festivities for families. At the end of the day a pumpkin carving and...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Betsy
This month we’re featuring one of our longest serving volunteers, Betsy. Betsy has been a consistent presence at our Wednesday morning meal prep shifts since we started serving Senior Meals on this day nearly six years ago! That means that Betsy has been around far...
Shelter Meals provide essential support for The Oaks
Hunger Intervention Program’s Shelter Meals program served nearly 14,000 meals to residents of The Oaks in its first six months of operation. Since the program began, the number of meals served in a week has more than tripled. Read on to learn more about how the...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Ping
In this month’s volunteer spotlight we’re learning a little bit more about Ping! Ping found out about HIP through our AmeriCorps member Claire. They met while volunteering with Medical Teams International, and she has been a HIPster ever since! Ping is a...
How an arson led me to HIP
“What does being a chef mean to you?” It’s a question I’ve asked myself over the years and if you were to ask a group of cooks I'm sure you'd get all sorts of answers. All of those answers would be valid, but for me, it comes down to nourishing people. Being a chef...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Evan
This month for our volunteer spotlight we’re meeting Evan. A rising junior at University Prep, Evan tried out a number of volunteer positions earlier this summer, but ultimately settled on becoming a HIPster. Evan loves being in the kitchen, and volunteers with both...
My summer at HIP
This summer, HIP received a high school intern from Teens In Public Service (TIPS) to help out with our Summer Eats program. In this reflection, intern Ryan Phi tells us about his summer with HIP. As cliche as it may sound, my time as an intern at HIP was like nothing...
Help feed our kids through Nourishing Neighbors campaign
It's back to full-time school for many kids after eighteen months of uncertainty. Kids need more scaffolding than ever to support the best growth for their minds and bodies. That's why HIP is proud to partner with the Nourishing Neighbors campaign to ensure that every...
