Legislative Updates It’s Not Over Yet! Act Now to Prevent Hunger & Homelessness Before Sunday We are in the final hours of the 2021 legislative session but it’s not over yet! Two bills that are critical to our agenda to provide relief to Washingtonians struggling with hunger and at risk of homelessness as a result of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic need action…
Legislative Updates Budget Proposals Fund Food Assistance, Build Equity We are picking up both ground and speed as we head into the final weeks of the 2021 Legislative Session. Join us in celebrating the enactment of HB 1151! A priority bill for us this session, this bill will provide transitional food assistance for families with children who are leaving…
Newsletters Spring 2021 News In This Issue: Together, We Can; “It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done”; Ken Hill Family and Charitable Trusts; 2021 Legislative Priorities: Protect and Expand Our Safety Net; Hunger Action Highlights; Organization of the Year; Volunteering in A Pandemic; Sharing Power, Building Community; Home Team Harvest Busts the Record Books…
Blog Northwest Harvest Statement on Murders in Georgia We stand with Asian communities and in solidarity against anti-Asian hate and violence. Our staff, volunteers, and partners throughout the state of Washington are heartbroken and angry about this tragedy. We stand with the families of those killed in Georgia: Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, and Yong…
Legislative Updates It Takes More Than Food to End Hunger At Northwest Harvest, we believe that it takes a two-pronged approach to address hunger in our communities: we work to provide nutritious food to meet immediate needs, and we work on structural, systemic change to address the root causes of hunger. Hunger persists when struggling individuals and families don’t have…
Legislative Updates Three Things the Legislature Can Do for a More Equitable Recovery According to the most recent census data, nearly 1 in 6 Washington adults with children are reporting that they cannot afford enough food so that even their children do not have enough to eat. Now that we are officially half done with this year’s legislative session, we want to make…
event Chief Seattle Council Virtual Scouting For Food Each year, Chief Seattle Council conducts their annual Scouting for Food campaign- a large scale food drive where scouts across Western Washington go door to door to collect food donations for their local food banks. In 2019 alone, scouts in Chief Seattle Council collected over 74,000 pounds of food. This…
Legislative Updates Join Today’s Day of Action for #AmericanRescuePlan Today is a National Day of Action to tell the Senate to act quickly in passing a COVID relief package that is modeled on President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. This package will provide much needed help for reducing economic hardship for tens of millions of people, including food assistance, extension…
