FOOD LIFELINE
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Mission Statement
Food Lifeline is on a mission to end hunger in Western Washington. We believe that access to food is a basic human right and that nobody deserves to be hungry. Food Lifeline provides hunger relief to 1.6 million people facing hunger by sourcing nutritious food from a variety of food industry partners. We distribute through a network of 296 food banks, shelters, and meal programs, enabling us to provide the equivalent of more than 233,000 meals every single day. At the same time, we are working to end hunger for the future by addressing its root causes, including poverty, racial inequity, and social injustice. We do this through advocacy efforts to shape local, state, and federal policy, by partnering with organizations that are addressing other causes of poverty, and through engagement and bundling food assistance with other community-based programs and services.
About This Cause
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. 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.