As I’ve previously mentioned, United Way of King County cares a lot about hunger in our community. We regularly fund over a dozen food banks in our area. And as a response to the economic recession, we have give nearly $3 million to 40+ different food programs in the last year.

One of the programs we funded was featured on the KOMO clip above: The Delridge Healthy Corner Store Initiative. This program tackles the problem of food deserts — areas where cheap, nutritious food is not easily accessible — in a unique way. Specifically, the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association is working with local corner stores to help them fill refrigerators with fresh food and to get them accepting food stamps. It’s a really cool project that helps the people in Delridge access food that would normally be unavailable to them.

Watch the video above or read the article here.

This is what United Way of King County is all about. Taking the funds donated by caring people like yourselves and strategically investing it into community programs that make big impacts on people’s lives!