FOOD LIFELINE CALENDAR OF EVENTS

FEATURED EVENTS:

Football Season!

Taste of the NFL's Kick Hunger Challenge

Support Food Lifeline this football season by taking part in the Taste of the NFL’s Kick Hunger Challenge.  It’s a great way for your team of family and friends to show support for the Seattle Seahawks and become champions for hunger relief. The money your team raises will go directly to help support Food Lifeline. We have until Super Bowl Sunday to face off against other NFL teams. Click here to score a touchdown against hunger!

February 1-14, 2012

"Share Theo Love" with Theo Chocolate

We traditionally celebrate romantic love in February and this year we also want to emphasize love of a more universal nature - love for our fellow humans. Through Theo Chocolate's  web sales and in-store food drive, they will "Share the Love" with hungry members of our community.

Here is how to participate:

• From February 1 - 14, make a purchase at their web store (www.theochocolate.com) and Theo will donate the equivalent of one meal to Food Lifeline.
• From February 1 - 14, bring in and donate a food item to Food Lifeline, make a purchase in their retail store and receive one FREE tour pass to Theo Chocolate.
• Bonus: For the first days of this promotion, Theo will raffle prizes from Caffe Vita & Babeland to all in-store shoppers!

February 11, 2012

The Food Lifeline Repackathon is on!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

BUILD YOUR TEAM AND GET READY TO REPACK! 

April 27, 2012

SAVOR: Sustaining Lives, Nourishing Hope

This is your chance to go green while sampling the best chefs in the city. SAVOR: Sustaining Lives, Nourishing Hope promises an unforgettable, sustainable five-course dinner and auction at Cedarbrook Lodge and Copperleaf Restaurant, featuring renowned local chefs and paired wines.

OTHER EVENTS:

Ongoing

Closing the Window on Hunger

This summer, Champion Windows of Seattle is partnering with Food Lifeline to help put an end to child hunger in the Seattle area. Did you know that every summer millions of children in the U.S. go hungry?

Champion of Seattle will be donating 50 pounds of food for each appointment they run, and an additional 100 pounds of food for each sale made. Learn more and make an appointment today!

Ongoing

Panera Bread's Operation Dough-Nation

Visit select Panera Bread stores in Western Washington and donate to Food Lifeline. As a part of "Operation Dough-Nation" Panera will match 10¢ of every $1 donated. Last year your donations, combined with Panera's match, reached over $29,800!

Ongoing

The Pampered Chef

Customers have the opportunity to "round-up" their product orders to the nearest dollar or more through the Round-Up from the Heart® campaign. “Round-up” donations are distributed locally and benefit hungry families in our area.  In 2010, those contributions to Food Lifeline totaled $13,795.  A limited edition beautiful, copper-plated cast iron trivet is available with $2 from the purchase of each Round-Up from the Heart® 2011 Trivet donated to Feeding America. The Pampered Chef®'s Round-Up from the Heart® is the longest running charitable program with Feeding America. 

In honor of the program’s 20th anniversary, The Pampered Chef has teamed up with TLC and its well-known personalities to develop The Pampered Chef Cookbook for a Cause, Volume 2. This cookbook includes favorite recipes from stars of Cake Boss, Say Yes to the Dress, DC Cupcakes, The Little Couple, 19 Kids and Counting, What Not To Wear and more! With every cookbook purchased, $1 is contributed to Feeding America.  To book a Cooking or Fundraiser Show or learn more about the Round-Up from the Heart® campaign, find your local Pampered Chef Consultant by calling 888-OUR-CHEF (888-687-2433) or by visiting the Pampered Chef web site.

Ongoing

SOZO Wine Benefits Food Lifeline

SOZO artisan wine is hand-crafted locally and delicious. Through their SOZO Friends program, Food Lifeline benefits from every bottle of wine sold! Enjoy SOZO and help feed hungry people. Learn more...

Ongoing

Wallingford Soap for Hope

10% of the net proceeds from the sale of the Cottage Collage luxury soap at Wallingford Botanicals will benefit Food Lifeline!

Ongoing

A Checking Account with Great Perks

Food Lifeline is able to continue feeding hungry people throughout Western Washington because of your generous support and the help of such organizations as the Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union (SMCU). One of the perks of opening a “Feel Good Checking” account at SMCU is 60 free meals - 60 meals for hungry people!

If you’re thinking of switching banks or opening a new account, keep in mind “Feel Good Checking” with SMCU. SMCU donates $20 to Food Lifeline for each account opened, which is enough to provide food for 60 meals. Pass the word along to others who might be interested.
Visit https://www.smcu.com/accounts/feel-good.html for more information.

Ongoing

Challenge for Change

Take an active role in feeding hungry families! Sign your company up to raise food & funds through a unique competition between branches, floors, departments or even other companies in your industry. By combining food collection, creative fundraising activities and volunteer projects, this challenge will spell "success" in your office. Visit the Food & Fund Drive page on our site to learn more about organizing a Challenge for Change in your office.

Ongoing

Edmonds Winery Promotion

Edmonds Winery's newly released 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot benefits hungry people in Western Washington. $2.50 will be donated to Food Lifeline for every bottle sold! More Information...

Ongoing

Food Lifeline is an Albertsons Community Partner

If you shop at Albertsons with your Preferred Savings Card be sure to link your card to Food Lifeline! Simply go to www.albertsons.com and click on "In the Community" and "Community Partners". Link your card to Food Lifeline using our Community Partner ID Number: 49001014290, then shop as usual! Food Lifeline will receive a check from Albertsons to support the children we serve at Western Washington food banks.

NATIONAL PROMOTIONS:

Check out how our national organization, Feeding America, is helping Food Lifeline feed hungry people!

ARM & HAMMER

Be on the lookout for select ARM & HAMMER products with the Feeding America name and logo. These products are a part of ARM & HAMMER’s Drive to Fight Hunger campaign, asking people to participate in helping them raise money and food for Feeding America’s network of food distribution organizations like us here at Food Lifeline.

EVENT RESULTS:

September 30, 2011

Dress Down Hunger 2011 is a Huge Success

View the results here.

September 24, 2011

Community Breakfast Feeds Nearly 800 Hungry People

Nearly 800 hungry people in the Seattle area received a free meal at our Community Egg Breakfast supported by Northwest Egg Farmers. Guests were joined by members of the Seattle Police Department’s Community Outreach Section, whose officers took to the streets to personally deliver those individuals (more than 150) who were in need of a hot meal but without adequate transportation.

“Our goal is to build long lasting relationships with the community that we serve,” said Officer A.B. Chapackdee, with the Seattle Police Department’s Community Outreach Section. “An event like this definitely captures the essence of what we’re about.”

One in seven households in Washington couldn’t afford enough food last year which is why Northwest Egg Farmers also donated 60,000 eggs to Food Lifeline to distribute to the more than 686,000 hungry people the organization serves each year. The need among food banks continues to grow, especially for high-quality protein foods, like eggs, which help build muscle and allow people to feel full longer and stay energized.

The donation and breakfast were part of Hunger Action Month, and the Good Egg Project, an initiative by America’s egg farmers to educate people about where eggs come from and to encourage Americans to help fight hunger in the United States.

Jul. 8-22, 2011

Food Frenzy 2011 is a Huge Success

View the results here.

May 14, 2011

"Stamp Out Hunger" Food Drive

The 19th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive took place on May 14th. Tallies are still coming in, but it looks like another record-breaking year with nearly 500,000 pounds provided to hungry neighbors in your community.

A tremendous thank you to the NALC Branch 79 and all the hard-working letter carriers as well as our 2011 sponsors: QFC, Campbell's and Regence BlueShield for their partnership. Thank you also to our dedicated member agencies and volunteers for their help with this drive.

We especially want to thank everyone who took the time to put a bag of food out for their letter carrier or to donate financially to Food Lifeline. If you missed your opportunity to donate during the drive, it’s not too late; go to www.foodlifeline.org/stamp to donate a blue bag of food.

Nov. 1-Jan. 1, 2011

Bringing Hope to the Table

Every holiday season, QFC partners with Food Lifeline by "Bringing Hope to the Table." Fund donations were accepted and QFC and offered $10 grocery bags filled with nutritious, non-perishable food for hungry people, as well . No one should go hungry, and with your support of this program, we were able to provide more than 100,000 meals for hungry people with fund donations! In addition, you purchased over 28,000 grocery bags for our neighbors in need.

Nov. 2-Dec. 25, 2010

Q13 FOX Food For All Holiday Food Drive

The third annual Q13 FOX Food For All holiday food drive was a huge success! Thank you for making a difference in a family’s life with your donations.

There is still time to give:

• Text the word “meals” to 52000 to give $10 instantly

Throughout November and December, Q13 FOX and our partners at Les Schwab Tire Centers helped us raise enough food and funds to provide 15,512 families with a holiday meals!

The finale event featured 25 Les Schwab Tire Center pickup trucks rolling into the SDC parking lot heaped with food and led by a police escort! Beatles cover band Crème Tangerine kept everybody rocking while Les Schwab's 50 volunteers unloaded more than 40,000 pounds of donated food.