After exhausting income, public nutrition benefits, and food bank resources, where do you turn for food? This is a problem faced by many hungry Western Washington residents.

Food Lifeline estimates that in 2011, low income individuals missed 291 million meals because they did not have access to food. The Missing Meals Report investigates the shortage of resources available to low-income individuals and addresses the ramifications of denying them three nutritious meals a day.

As many of you know from reading about…

What comes to your mind when you think of a food stamp recipient? Uneducated? System abuser? These stereotypes plague your friends, families, and neighbors who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to make it through hard times. During Hunger Action Week, United Way of King County is working end hunger in King County and connect people with benefits that can help them build and maintain healthy eating habits during times of economic hardship.

The SNAP program allows the most vulnerable people in…

United Way of King County’s Hunger Action Week is March 25-30th and there are a ton of ways to get involved. Many Hunger Action Week participants have gone beyond signing up to receive Hunger Action Week e-mails and have pledged to take the Food Stamp Challenge and eat on less than $7 a day.

Staying within the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) budget is hard, to say the least. For many of those participating in the Food Stamp Challenge for Hunger Action Week,…

Hello United Way blog readers! My name is Jamie and I’m an AmeriCorps VISTA member serving at United Way of King County as a volunteer coordinator for the North Urban Human Services Alliance (NUHSA) . Quite a mouthful, right? Basically, my job is to assess the volunteer needs of agencies, connect volunteers with local non-profits, and recruit volunteers to serve in north King County. It’s a tall order, but I’m glad to be serving with Trey, another VISTA member, as we wade our way through…