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United Way Champions Get the Inside Track on Bridge to Finish
United Way’s Bridge to Finish program helps low-income students graduate by providing services like emergency financial grants, housing assistance, access to food and income supports… Read More
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Fueling the Future With the #BreakfastChallenge
Guest bloggers Tori Sarris and Yan Yan Teague are AmeriCorps members currently working on our Fuel Your Future initiative. Breakfast: we’re taught from childhood that… Read More
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Free Summer Meals for School-Aged Children Launched Statewide
(SEATTLE)— United Way of King County is launching the Free Summer Meals service for children and youth across King County. Additionally, this year United Way… Read More
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Millions of Children are Eligible For School Breakfast, But They’re Not Getting It
The need for school breakfast highlights racial inequities in the fight for access to healthy food. Studies show that the need for school meals is great—21.8 million students eat free- or reduced-price lunch—but only 12.5 million eat school breakfast. Many children missing out on school breakfast are low-income, immigrant students and students of color. Read More
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Summer Food Invasion Breaks Record…Again!
Free summer meals for kids saw a huge expansion this year, thanks to generous donors who fuel our work to build local families’ financial stability. Read More
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United Way of King County Launches First Cohort of COVID-19 HungerCorps to Help With Hunger Relief Efforts
SEATTLE—The first cohort of United Way of King County’s new HungerCorps will begin assisting in hunger relief efforts on Tuesday, May 26, as part of the organization’s overall operations to… Read More
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Emerging Leaders’ Connect for Good Fights Summer Hunger
This blog post was written by Chris Partridge (pictured above), a member of Emerging Leaders 365. Connect for Good introduced me to United Way of… Read More
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Here comes the new African American Home Grocery Delivery Box!
This blog post was written by Olivia Schwartz, United Way AmeriCorps Food Security Collaborator VISTA. United Way of King County’s Home Grocery Delivery… Read More
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300 More Students Eating Breakfast in Renton Schools
Manasi Parekh is Fuel Your Future AmeriCorps member with United Way, dedicating a year of service to increasing student participation in school breakfasts, after school… Read More
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Sports Are a Waste of Time and Resources…NOT
Guest blogger Tiffany Anderson is a soccer fan, hunger-fighter and the AmeriCorps Program Coordinator at United Way of King County. When I told my friend… Read More
