FOOD LIFELINE CALENDAR OF EVENTS

FEATURED EVENTS:

July 7-

August 13, 2010

Walmart Associate Choice Program

Help Food Lifeline win $100,000 through the Walmart Associate Choice Program. Through August 13, Walmart and Sam’s Club employees can vote on 1 out of 5 organizations to win the grand prize!

For Walmart and Sam’s Club Associates

Vote for Food Lifeline! We truly value the relationship we have with Walmart and Sam’s Club. You gave over $329,500 and provided 2.3 million meals to hungry people in Washington state last year.

With your support we can help more people in local communities, and further strengthen Walmart’s initiative of “Fighting Hunger Together.”

For All Food Lifeline Supporters

1. Know an employee of Walmart or Sam’s Club? Ask them to vote for Food Lifeline.

2. Do you shop at Walmart or Sam’s Club? Tell associates they can help feed 400,000 people by voting for Food Lifeline.

3. Spread the word. Paste the following statement into an email and ask your friends and family to help us end hunger:

“Food Lifeline is a local hunger relief organization I support, and together we can help them win $100,000! Through August 13, employees at Walmart and Sam’s Club can vote on 1 out of 5 local nonprofit organizations to win $100,000 through the Walmart Associate Choice Program. If Food Lifeline wins, that's enough money to provide 400,000 meals for hungry people in our communities.

Only employees can vote, so be sure to remind your friends or family members who work at Walmart or Sam’s Club to vote for Food Lifeline.”

4. Support Walmart’s “Fighting Hunger Together” initiative today and “share” a plate on Facebook. It’s free and for every plate you share, Walmart will donate the value of a healthy meal to Feeding America to help hungry people.

July 31, 2010

1st Annual Cornbread Ball

The 1st Annual Cornbread Ball is July 31st. The all-day benefit concert starts at 2 p.m. at Slim’s Last Chance Chili Shack & Watering Hole (5606 1st Ave S., Seattle) and features: The Kings, Load Levelers, Moonshine Missile, Gunn and the Damage Done, Kings of Outlaw Country, Bullitt County, Guns of Nevada, and Hard Money Saints. Listen to great music outside and help end hunger!

Cost is $10 and all proceeds benefit Food Lifeline.

August 6-14, 2010

Ready, Set, Bag! Documentary Film is coming to Seattle and Bellingham

Checkout will never be the same. Every February, the top grocery baggers from across the country compete for the title of Best Bagger in America. "Ready, Set, Bag!" explores the lives of eight state champions, following these delightfully fun characters from local contests to their moment on the national stage. This video documentary will play August 6th to 12th at the Central Cinema in Seattle and the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham.

Visit the theater websites or box office today to purchase your tickets. Every ticket sold includes a $1 donation to Food Lifeline.

View trailer

August 7, 2010

HopeFest

Join Renton First United Methodist Church on Saturday, August 7th from 4 to 8 p.m. for HopeFest (445KB .pdf file). Enjoy a free outdoor concert from local artists and a food drive benefitting Food Lifeline. Bring your lawn chair and sunscreen and listen to Cherry Cherry, a Neil Diamond Tribute Band, as well as dancing groups, choirs and more.

Sept. 23, 2010

Bag Hunger Luncheon

Mark your calendars for an event you don’t want to miss: the 13th Annual Bag Hunger Luncheon at the Grant Hyatt Seattle. Enjoy a delicious meal and hear from experts on the economy, hunger and their impact on our community. Email our Events department for more information.

OTHER EVENTS:

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 80 free meals - 80 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 80 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.

Ongoing

The Pampered Chef

Customers have the opportunity to round up their orders to the nearest dollar or more to help feed hungry families. This year a beautiful, heart-shaped, copper-plated trivet has been introduced. $2 from each trivet sold in our area will benefit Food Lifeline. For more information or to host a party, go to the Pampered Chef web site.

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.

STOUFFER's®

When you’re in the mood for buying a quick meal, why not donate one to someone who needs it at the same time? STOUFFER’S Dinner Club program allows you to collect Dinner Club points for each STOUFFER’S® single-serve meal you buy. You can use these points to bid on fun items, or donate them to Feeding America (one point equals one meal) to distribute to places like Food Lifeline. You can’t bid on items until after November, but when you donate your points, you will receive a reusable grocery tote as a thank you!

The Cheesecake Factory

The Cheesecake Factory is taking action to end hunger with us. Visit any location and try the Stefanie’s Ultimate Red Velvet Cheesecake. It is delicious and for every slice you buy from now through July 2010, 25 cents will be donated to Feeding America and Food Lifeline. Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too! Find a location near you.

EVENT RESULTS:

Jul. 29, 2010

Food Frenzy Breaks Records Feeding Hungry Children!

Food Frenzy 2010 broke records yet again, with nearly 100 organizations competing to feed hungry kids.  Food Lifeline extends our sincerest thanks to all the Food Frenzy participants for your outstanding support of this award-winning event. Together you raised more than $327,000, enough to provide 1.3 million meals for hungry children. The 14,000 pounds of nutritious food you collected and your tremendous outpouring of volunteer support (over 2,700 hours) mean thousands more meals will reach hungry families this summer.

Congratulations to the top organizations in each category. Remember that the real winners are the hungry kids you're feeding through your generosity and hard work.

We also want to thank Food Frenzy Sponsor Cedar Grove Composting; Challengers Clothier & Head, P.S.; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office; Olson Kundig Architects: and Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union; and our wonderfully dedicated Food Frenzy Committee. Additional kudos to Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union and Cedar Grove Composting for piloting new Food Frenzy sectors this year.  Thanks to Puget Sound Association of Legal Administrators for their partnership and to Prolumina for hosting a food drop-off site.

It’s not too late to support Food Frenzy - click here to donate and help hungry children this summer.

And now it’s time to congratulate the winners! 

Overall Awards

• Accounting Firms
  1st Place: Clothier & Head, P.S.
  2nd Place: Bader Martin, P.S.
  3rd Place: Moss Adams, LLP

• Design/Construction Firms
  1st Place: Olson Kundig Architects
  2nd Place: The Miller|Hull Partnership, LLP

  3rd Place: Mahlum

• Law Firms
  1st Place: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  2nd Place: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
  3rd Place: The Nathanson Group PLLC

• Public Sector Legal Organizations
  1st Place: King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
  2nd Place: Washington State Office of the Attorney General
  3rd Place: Washington State Bar Association

Per Capita Awards

• Accounting Firms
  1st Place: Clothier & Head, P.S.
  2nd Place: Brantley Janson Yost & Ellison
  3rd Place: Sweeney Conrad, P.S.

• Design/Construction Firms
  1st Place: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
  2nd Place: Quantum Consulting Engineers
  3rd Place: The Miller|Hull Partnership, LLP

• Law Firms
  1st Place: The Nathanson Group PLLC
  2nd Place: Aoki Sakamoto Grant LLP
  3rd Place: Marten Law Group PLLC

• Public Sector Legal Organizations
  1st Place: Lake Forest Park Municipal Court
  2nd Place: Washington State Attorney General’s Office
  3rd Place: Washington State Bar Association

100% Employee Participation

Ashbaugh Beal

Ater Wynne LLP

Benson & McLaughlin P.S.

Brantley Janson Yost & Ellison

Clothier & Head, P.S.

Cooley LLP

Danielson Harrigan Leyh & Tollefson, LLP

De Caro & Roberts, Inc. P.S.

Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell LLP

Johnson & Shute, P.S.

Lake Forest Park Municipal Court

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson, PLLC

LeGros Buchanan & Paul

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Montgomery Purdue Blankinship & Austin, PLLC

Ogden Murphy Wallace P.L.L.C.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Peterson Russell Kelly PLLC

Reed McClure

Socius Law Group

SRG Partnership

Stafford Frey Cooper

Sweeney Conrad, P.S.

The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP

The Nathanson Group PLLC

Vandeberg Johnson & Gandara

Wechsler Becker, LLP

Feb. 19 2010

The Falls Come to Life 2010

Thank you to all who attended The Falls Come to Life 2010 at the Salish Lodge & Spa on February 19th. It was an engaging evening, and our generous guests helped us raise more than $24,000 in support of Food Lifeline, the equivalent of nearly 100,000 meals for hungry people in Western Washington!  In addition, Food Lifeline and the Salish Lodge & Spa received some great publicity, raising awareness about hunger and about the Salish Lodge’s caring spirit in our community.

Our auction was a success as well, as Auctioneer Tim Leahy inspired bidders to take home amazing items including a getaway to the San Juan Islands, specially designed experiences with each chef in attendance at the event, and a Trip of a Lifetime to Bali, Africa or Italy.

Emcee Mark Wright lead guests through five delicious courses and University Food Bank’s Director, Joe Gruber, shared heartfelt experiences from the front lines of hunger relief. Thank you to our fabulous chefs: Brian McCracken, Dana Tough, Jack Strong, Jason Stratton, John Howie and Kerry Sear who prepared uniquely delicious and enticing courses.

Special thanks to the Salish Lodge & Spa for generously hosting this event to benefit Food Lifeline; we appreciate our strong partnership since 2007 and look forward to next year’s event!

Photo: Drew and Teresa Bliss, Guests at The Falls Come to Life

Credit: MORGAN KEULER FOR TEAM PHOTOGENIC ©2010

Nov. 18 2009

Problem Solver's Food Drive in Memory of Brendan Foster

You helped Brenden Foster's wish of feeding those in need come to fruition once again this year! With your support, we raised $23,825 and nearly 13,000 pounds during the Problem Solver's Food Drive in Memory of Brenden Foster. This is enough to provide 105,456 meals for hungry people in local communities. If you were unable to make it out to any of the Fred Meyer locations where the food drive was held, you can still donate now. Thank you for supporting Brenden Foster's wish, and for supporting Food Lifeline.

Sept. 17, 2009

Bag Hunger Luncheon 2009

More than $110,000 was raised to provide more than 550,000 meals toward ending hunger and fulfilling dreams for children in Western Washington at Food Lifeline’s 12th Annual Bag Hunger Luncheon on September 17th. Nearly 300 guests joined us for a moving program highlighted by keynote speaker James Whitfield, former regional Director for Region 10 for the Health and Human Services Department. Mr. Whitfield spoke about the reality that we all are “hungry” for something and yet for some children, their actual hunger prevents them from achieving great things.

Food Lifeline presented five Ending Hunger Awards to honor those individuals and donors who have gone above and beyond their traditional role to support Food Lifeline’s mission to end hunger. Award winners:

• Outstanding Volunteer Award: The Church of Scientology

• Outstanding Foundation Donor Award: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Outstanding Individual Award: Kristin Maas

• Raising Hunger Awareness Award: The Miller|Hull Partnership

• Outstanding Food Donor Award: SeaShare

Emcees Tom Douglas and Thierry Rautureau kept the event lively, and Food Lifeline President & CEO Linda Nageotte’s heartfelt comments culminated in an unveiling of Food Lifeline’s new logo. Thank you to Title Sponsor Moneytree, Inc. and to Contributing Sponsor The Boeing Company for making this compelling event possible. We also offer tremendous thanks to all our table sponsors, table captains and committee members.

We Took a "Bite" out of Hunger

Crowds of people, good food, and hundreds of Food Lifeline supporters at the Bite of Seattle® -- what could be better? The Alley, hosted by Tom Douglas sponsored by Painted Hills Natural Beef was a huge success. Visitors to The Alley enjoyed delectable tastes from top local chefs while also helping their neighbors in need through Food Lifeline.

The Alley raised more than $28,000 in net proceeds for Food Lifeline, and we had 69 volunteers stationed at donation boxes around the Seattle Center to help reach this amount. Thank you to all who visited The Alley at the Bite of Seattle®, and to our wonderful volunteers who shared their weekend with us.