University District Food Bank

🍎This week we are sharing information about each of our programs. Today we highlight Home Delivery.🍎

🎟Join us for our Take a Bite Out of Hunger Benefit Auction on Saturday, October 19 at St. Demetrios in Montlake!

🎟Tickets are on sale now for individual tickets, Patron tickets, tables of 8 and more! Your ticket includes dinner by Cameron Catering and beverages. Click the link below or the link in bio.
https://udistrictfoodbank.ejoinme.org/Tickets

🎟We are looking forward to rallying together to beat last year's goal and set the Food Bank up to meet our growing demand and expenses! Please invite your friends, family and neighbors to join together for this incredible cause.

🍎This week we are sharing information about each of our programs. Today we highlight our Satellite Pantries at North Seattle College and Magnuson Park.🍎

🍎This week we are sharing information about each of our programs. Today we highlight Packs for Kids.🍎

🍎This week we are sharing information about each of our programs. Today we highlight the Apple-a-Day Café.🍎

Last call for Bumbershoot tickets!

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🍎For the next two weeks we are sharing information about each of our programs. Today we highlight our main pantry on Roosevelt Way.🍎

Help us create a healthy, thriving community! We are recruiting for new board members for the University District Food Bank. Bring your energy and enthusiasm; prior board experience is not required. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in human resources, finance, and fundraising. Lived experience and/or prior background in social services is a bonus.

Come help us to achieve our UDFB mission: To serve people facing food insecurity in Northeast Seattle by providing high-quality, culturally familiar food and connecting them with vital resources. This last year, we distributed 3.4 million pounds of food, serving over 109,000 households.

Are you interested? Contact [email protected]

🏃🏽‍♀️Reminder! Lard Butt 1K (0.62 Miles) Returns to Magnuson Park TOMORROW! 🏃

🍩Lard Butt 1K welcomes all ages to join them and doesn't take itself too seriously. It features donut stations every 250 meters and hosts a well-stocked beer garden before and after the 1K. There's also a Free Kids Dash for those ages ten and younger.

🍎PLUS it benefits the University District Food Bank through their canned food drive and cash donations!

There will be a “Spirit of Lard Butt” costume party, an on-site soundtrack and numerous other surprises. Leashed pets welcome.

Register at www.lardbutt.com

Thank you, Volunteers!

Bumbershoot organizers would like to reward you for giving back to your community. Sign up for your FREE tickets to Bumbershoot at https://bit.ly/UDFBBumbershoot.

First produced at Seattle Center in 1971, Bumbershoot is Washington’s legacy arts and music festival, made for community by community.

Our Roosevelt Way Food Bank will be closed Monday, August 12th. We reopen, Tuesday the 12th at 11am.

For food assistance please call 2-1-1.

🍎Summer is a busy time for many of our volunteers, and we are shorthanded again tomorrow. Please help deliver food to our homebound customers on Saturday.🚗You will meet some wonderful people, and you will be greatly helping out your community.

Sign up via the volunteer portal or email [email protected].

🛩The Blue Angels are back in town this weekend and so is the heat🔥

Please see the attached resources from King County Regional Homeless Authority.

🏃🏽‍♀️Lard Butt 1K (0.62 Miles) Returns to Magnuson Park on Saturday, August 10! 🏃

🍩Lard Butt 1K welcomes all ages to join them and doesn't take itself too seriously. It features donut stations every 250 meters and hosts a well-stocked beer garden before and after the 1K. There's also a Free Kids Dash for those ages ten and younger.

🍎PLUS it benefits the University District Food Bank through their canned food drive and cash donations!

There will be a “Spirit of Lard Butt” costume party, an on-site soundtrack and numerous other surprises. Leashed pets welcome.

Founder Mark Peterson wanted to create a race for any and all to get out and have fun with no pressure. They've kept the event affordable so all can attend among the growing costs of the city. He's also very aware of food insecurity in Seattle and wanted to give back to the community, so they began collecting non-perishable items from each race participant to donate to the University District Food Bank to help feed NE Seattle and beyond!

Register for this fun filled event at www.lardbutt.com

Home Delivery drivers are needed TOMORROW, Wednesday, July 31st!

Please sign up via the volunteer portal or contact our Home Delivery Coordinator at [email protected]

Thank you for helping us deliver nutritious food to our homebound customers.

Our Open House is next Wednesday, July 31st, from 5 pm to 8pm. Come meet staff, volunteers, and community members and get an inside peek of our Apple-a-Day Cafe, Rooftop Roots Farm, and main pantry on Roosevelt Way.

🎸THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! LIVE MUSIC BENEFIT SHOW!🎶

Come out to the Mother Aerie (8201 Lake City Way NE) at 8pm to enjoy great live music, featuring University District Food Bank staff members.

This event doubles as a hygiene drive for the food bank so please consider donating soap, deodorant, menstrual products, etc. at the door.

Meet our newest Board member, Matt P.

🍎Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina.

🍎What is your professional background?
I have an undergraduate in Electrical Engineering with a focus on communications from the University of Virginia. I have been with Verizon Wireless for over ten years now beginning as an intern while still in college. I have held several different roles in my time with Verizon, all focusing on the development and rollout of 5G technology.

🍎Coffee or tea?
I prefer coffee but peppermint tea is very refreshing.

🍎What is your favorite food?
My favorite meal is my mom's homemade lasagna, I ask her to make it everytime I travel home to North Carolina.

🍎What led you to join the board of the University District Food Bank?
I attended the 2023 food bank auction and was really inspired by the organization's great work and positive impact in the community. At that time I was looking for opportunities to volunteer in the community and was finishing up my MBA so when I heard the board's need for a treasurer it seemed like a great fit.

🍎Be like Matt and help us create a healthy, thriving community! We are recruiting for new board members for the University District Food Bank. Bring your energy and enthusiasm; prior board experience is not required. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in human resources, finance, and fundraising. Lived experience and/or prior background in social services is a bonus.

🍎Come help us to achieve our UDFB mission: To serve people facing food insecurity in Northeast Seattle by providing high-quality, culturally familiar food and connecting them with vital resources. Last year, we distributed 3.4 million pounds of food, serving over 109,000 households.

Are you interested? Contact [email protected]

‼️URGENT NEED‼

Due to technological issues with a non-profit partner, the University District Food Bank will NOT receive thousands of pounds of food this week.

As we struggle to keep our shelves stocked in this time of high demand, we need your help to keep nutritious food on the shelves this week (and every week).

Please consider donating any of the items listed here during the following times.
Monday 10am-3pm,
Tuesday 9am-7pm,
Wednesday 9am-1pm,
Thursday 9am-7pm,
Friday 10am-4pm,
Saturday 9am-1pm

Did you know that with the one head of lettuce you purchase, we could purchase 3 through our partnerships with local vendors. Please also consider a financial donation to fill the shelves!
www.udistrictfoodbank.org/donate

Thank you for your support at this time of high demand.

🍎Our partnerships with local organizations and businesses are the lifeblood of the University District Food Bank. One of our partners, the Magnuson Community Garden, works to enhance the quality of urban life and strengthen community bonds by creating and sustaining an organic garden in Sand Point Magnuson Park.

🌱This work fosters environmental stewardship, horticultural education, rejuvenation, and recreation. Through their P-Patch Food Bank Gardening program, organic produce is grown for donation to food banks and other meal programs. P-Patch Gardens city-wide grow and donate over 28,000 pounds of organic produce annually.

🍎The Magnuson Park Community Garden is one of the largest in the Seattle P-Patch system, with about a dozen food bank plots (also known as Giving Gardens) that are planted and harvested by Magnuson P-Patch volunteer gardeners specifically for donation.

🌱Between the builders of the planter boxes, the organizations donating the plants and seeds, and the volunteer gardeners and drivers, it takes the community to run this program. Thank you, Magnuson Community Garden, for supporting the U District Food Bank!

This week, we say goodbye to Home Delivery Program Coordinator Molly.

Molly has worked hard over the last two years to bring healthy, culturally relevant foods to our homebound customers. She has built strong connections with customers, staff, and volunteers alike, and she will be missed.

But rest assured, Molly will be out there working on systemic change as she heads to the London School of Economics to earn her Master of Science in the Inequalities and Social Science Program.

🌟Our auction will be here before you know it. Save the date for October 19th and be on the lookout for ticket sales soon. 🌟

Thank you to the businesses who have already donated to our event. At a time of unprecedented demand for our services, rising costs and fewer food donations, support from local businesses ensures we fulfill our core purpose of creating a healthy and thriving community. Please frequent these businesses and thank them for supporting the U District Food Bank.

Acorn Street Shop
Alaska Airlines
Alderbrook Resort & Spa
Avennia Winery
Baer Winery
Bedrooms & More
Bloedel Reserve
Book Larder
Boon Boona Coffee
Brown Bear Baking
Cafe Hitchcock
Cedar Grove
Clare V
Copperworks Distilling Company
Daniel's Broiler - Prime Steaks & Seafood
DeLille Cellars
Derby Salon
Doe Bay Resort & Retreat
Due Cucina
Duke's Seafood
Dunham Cellars
Dusted Valley
DW Distilling
Eagle Harbor Book Co
Earshot Jazz
Ethan Stowell Restaurants
Everett AquaSox
Evergreen Tree Care
Full Pull Wines
Funko
Georgetown Liquor Company
Isenhower Cellars
JM Cellars
Kuma Coffee
Ladd & Lass Brewing
Latta Wines
Leonetti Cellar
McCarthy & Schiering Wine Merchants, Inc.
Michael Florentino Cellars
Modernist Cuisine
MOHAI
Neighborhood Grills
Nielsen's Pastries
Nintendo of America
restaurant homer
Rick Steves' Europe
Saviah Cellars
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Interiors
Seattle Mariners
Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Market
Seattle Select Basketball
Secret Squirrel
Sleight of Hand Cellars
Spinnaker Chocolate
Spud Fish and Chips
Suncadia Resort
Tacoma Art Museum
The College Inn Pub
The Courtyard by Marriott Seattle-Bellevue Downtown
The Herbfarm Restaurant
The Museum of Flight
The Pantry
The Pastry Project
The Westy
Third Place Books
Thomas Dentistry
Thurston Wolfe Winery
Tilth Alliance
Tom Douglas and Company
Total Wine & More
Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria
UW School of Drama
Westland Distillery
William Levine Fine Jewels, L.L.C.
Young Oh - Oh La La Salon

🍕🍕STARTING TODAY!🍕🍕

🍕Don't forget to fill up on Tutta Bella pizza this week and support the foodbank! From July 14-18 dine on pizza and pasta at your neighborhood Tutta Bella and they will donate 20% of sales to the University District Food Bank!

🍕Use code EasyAsPieUDFB at checkout for dine-in or order delivery, takeout, or curbside from tuttabella.com.

🍕Please note the code cannot be used on 3rd party delivery sites (UberEats, DoorDash, etc). And for orders at Kirkland and University Village grocery store kiosks, orders must be placed from tuttabella.com – not the registers in QFC.

We’re excited to continue our work ending hunger in our community with help from from . This grant will help us purchase healthy and nutritious food and connect customers to vital resources. With fewer food donations, we now buy 50% of the food we distribute. Thank you to The Starbucks Foundation for boosting our purchasing power with a Neighborhood Grant.

🍎At the University District Food Bank our Community Connector team brings important resources to the community. Stop by and check out our reader board to see what's on tap each week*.

*Dates and times of our partners are subject to change.

☀️King County Regional Homeless Authority (KCRHA) Severe Weather Protocols will be extended through Sunday, July 14th.☀️