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Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Sue and Allison
This month we have a very special spotlight featuring TWO volunteers, Sue (left) and Allison (right)! These two have been friends for over 30 years, and truly are two peas in a pod. They found out about HIP last summer through volunteering at The Oaks with the...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Sarah
This month we're excited to meet Sarah. Sarah moved to Seattle in August of 2021 and quickly found out about HIP through our booth at the Lake City Farmers Market. She began volunteering right away and is now a regular part of our Friday Senior Meals team! As a...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Jane
Welcome to 2022’s first Volunteer Spotlight! Today we’re featuring Jane, who has been volunteering in the HIP kitchen since July 2021, originally with Shelter Meals and now with Senior Meals. Jane found HIP while on a search for a food-related volunteer position that...
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...
