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Whatever you may have learned during this week (positive and negative), I hope you remember to use this experience to help fight hunger in our community! Here are few tips to keep the fight against hunger top of mind…

Anyone who has ever worked in an office knows that it’s a dangerous place for dieters. There is always someone with a bottomless candy bowl and, savvy meeting organizers often use pizza or donuts to entice people. Free food can be especially difficult to navigate during the Hunger Challenge. The next time your stomach rumbles take a moment to remember why you took the Hunger Challenge in the first place.

Yes. It is possible to eat for $7 a day (that’s the maximum food stamp benefit for an individual, by the way). But chances are, if you have really, truly followed the rules of the Hunger Challenge you are starting to worry. You worry that you may not have enough food to get you through the next two days.

The Early Learning team is excited to continue our important work and wanted to update our blog readers on what we are doing!  The Volunteer Reader Program continues to grow and we currently have over 100 volunteers who go out into our local community to read stories to children ages 3 – 5 years old, but we want more volunteers!  In addition to building important pre-reading skills in young children, this program is very rewarding to both the child care sites that host the Volunteer…

Being a United Way campaign coordinator can be a lot of work. But it can also be a lot of fun and extremely rewarding.

We proudly celebrated four outstanding campaign coordinators at our Spirit of Caring Celebration on March 8.

Here are some of the ways these four superstars went above and beyond to ensure their campaign’s success.

They made the ask—no matter what! Jessie Beltran and her campaign…

At the Spirit of Caring Celebration on March 8, United Way of King County recognized Weyerhaeuser’s Making WAVES program as the 2011 Outstanding Employee Volunteer Program.

The award recognizes Weyerhaeuser’s strong commitment to volunteerism, and its effort so encourage and reward their employees for making a difference through volunteering.

Weyerhaeuser’s special volunteer program, Making WAVES, supports the charitable work of employees. To participate, employees identify a need in their community and work with a nonprofit or school to develop a project. Weyerhaeuser…

At the Spirit of Caring Celebration on March 8, we honored Dr. Sandra Madrid as Ambassador of the Year for her exceptional dedication as an advocate for United Way of King County.

For the last 15 years Sandra has demonstrated her commitment to United Way’s mission. She has done everything from chairing United Way’s board to leading the Volunteerism Task Force.

She can best be described as “positive energy.”

This past fall, Sandra played a major role in a fundraising event…

We were proud to honor Evelyn Lemoine as our 2011 Volunteer of the Year at our Spirit of Caring Celebration on March 8.

Evelyn has been a dedicated United Way volunteer, donor and advocate for many years.

In 2004 Evelyn stepped up to serve as one of United Way’s inaugural impact council chairs. She led the Children Youth & Families Impact Council and then the Early Learning Impact Council for four years and she remains an active member to this day.…

United Way of King County awarded AT&T the Spirit of Puget Sound Award—our top honor for corporate philanthropy—at the Spirit of Caring Celebration on March 8.

The Spirit of Puget Sound Award honors outstanding community involvement, sustained campaign excellence, and the promotion of volunteerism.

Here are just a few reasons why we presented AT&T with this prestigious honor:

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