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| Last updated on February 6, 2008 |
The White Center Food Bank's mission is to minimize hunger, while nourishing community, nurturing self reliance and embracing our rich cultural diversity.
Description:
Welcome to the White Center Food Bank!
The White Center Food Bank serves more than 1,200 hungry families each month! We provide services in an area that has the highest concentration of poverty in the state of Washington, with one in three working families that cannot make ends meet. We could not provide these services without the generosity of our donors and volunteers. However, more help is needed to meet the overwhelming demands of this community!
The White Center Food Bank strives to provide the best possible services to its community. Our efforts include:
*Providing nutritious and culturally relevant food to the diverse White Center community, which is rich with people who have recently immigrated from locations all over the world.
*Partnering with other local organizations:
*Operating a baby pantry with Westside Baby to support low-income families with infants.
*Opening the food bank two evenings per month to better serve working families.
*Offering foods that meet special dietary needs such as diabetes and low salt diets, and providing no-cook bags for homeless individuals and families through our partnership with the Emergency Feeding Program.
Please join us in serving the White Center Community!
History:
The White Center Food Bank was formed by St. James Lutheran and Highland Park United Methodist churches during the 1970's in response to demand from local community members' requests. The economy had taken a turn for the worse and families were in desperate need of emergency services, food being the most basic. Since that time, the economy has gone through many changes, but the need for food is still here. Today, the White Center Food Bank provides emergency food to more than 1,200 families, including 1,700 infants and children, each month.
The families that come to us are from many different cultural backgrounds. The very diverse White Center area hosts immigrants and refugees from all over the world including; Mexico, Africa, Europe and Asia. One third of the population that we serve speaks a language other than English. In fact, schools in our community report that there are over 48 different languages spoken.
White Center Food Bank strives to provide the best possible services to the community. To meet the special needs of our families, we partner with other organizations. For instance, Westside Baby helps us provide diapers, formula and other needed baby items to help low-income families. Also, the Emergency Feeding program allows us to provide no-cook bags to the homeless, baby food, Asian and Latino cultural food, and food to meet special dietary needs for diabetics and others.
We currently partner with over 100 agencies, businesses, churches, civic organizations and work training programs and are always looking for more partners in the community to provide the best possible services.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (206) 762-2326
Address:
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10829 8th Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98146
This location is handicap accessible
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Web Site: http://www.whitecenterfoodbank.org
Miscellaneous Information
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Overall Experience 
Giving some of your time to help address your local community needs is great.
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I have volunteered at the White Center Food Bank which serves the greater White Center area since June 2004. Giving some of my time to help people in my community makes me feel great.
posted by artlowrie on January 15, 2005 |
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