Hear from our Community Connections VISTA team member, Charlotte Gavell, whose first day with us as a VISTA was spent scavenger hunting and visiting a United Way Free Tax Prep site. You’ll be hearing from her and her fellow VISTA’s as they share with us their experience in joining us in the fight against poverty. Read More

Fuel Your Future will help alleviate hunger in Seattle and beyond. 1 in 5 kids in Washington state is food-insecure and we aim to reduce that number by 50%! Read More

Jixia Ao is a new United Way VISTA placed with the Mockingbird Society. Read on to hear about her start at Mockingbird where she will help in their mission to end youth homelessness. Read More

Summer is especially difficult when kids don’t have access to free and reduced-price lunch at school. “When they’re out of school, they’re eating at home 3 times a day. With summer meals, they can eat breakfast and lunch for free. Read More

Meet one of our newest VISTA team members Ayako Shapiro! One of her first activities was visiting a United Way grantee, Pike Place Food Bank. Read her impressions of the needs and goings on in the Pike Place community. Read More

Like our Facebook page—take quiz—see what you know about nutrition—share quiz! So we have this goal around feeding healthy food to kids. We want to… Read More

This blog post was written by Emerging Leaders 365 donor and Committee Member Andrea Gohlke–Guest Product Delivery Manager at Alaska Airlines Through all… Read More

This blog post was written by Lauren McGowan, Associate Vice President of Ending Homelessness and Poverty at United Way of King County. The last few… Read More

This blog post was written by Lauren McGowan, associate vice president for ending homelessness and poverty at United Way of King County. Everyone… Read More

We want every kid in our community to have access to the nutritious food they need to grow up healthy and succeed in school. And with craziness like lunch shaming going on lately, who wouldn’t? This is how we're ending childhood hunger. Read More