Food Lifeline
Food Lifeline
Mission Statement
Food Lifeline has been addressing hunger in Western Washington for over 40 years. We work to both fill the immediate needs of people facing hunger through providing access to food and to reduce systemic food insecurity by creating long-term solutions that focus on the root causes of hunger, including poverty, gender discrimination, and structural racism. We are driven by a belief in food justice, the idea that everyone has the right to equitable access to nutritious and culturally relevant foods. We provide nutritious food to millions of people facing hunger in our service area every year. Food Lifeline sources millions of pounds of donated fresh and shelf-stable food from farmers, manufacturers, wholesalers, grocers, restaurants, and retail locations. Volunteers inspect and repack this food, and we distribute the foods through our partner agencies and our own programs.
Why Donate to Food Lifeline?
Food Lifeline works with a network of 296 food banks, shelters, and meal programs that serve people throughout our service area, from the heart of urban Seattle to rural coastal and island communities. Through the work we do with our agency partners, we are able to distribute hundreds of thousands of meals every day to over 1.6 million people across our 17-county service area who don’t always have enough to eat.
In everything we do, we center people living with food insecurity. In recognition of their resilience and dignity, we focus on elevating their stories and their lived experience, and support community-based solutions to end hunger. We work with all people who have been oppressed, including those marginalized on the basis of race.
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TAX ID: 91-1090450 • 501(c)3 • USA
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