By Stephanie Marin, Advocacy Assistant
Cle Elum HopeSource makes the most of their small facility providing energy, transportation, housing, financial literacy, and nutrition services. Approximately 25 families per day utilize HopeSource’s food bank. Open Mondays and Wednesdays, residents can come up to twice per month to receive a variety of food products. The HopeSource Food bank receives a good portion of their food from Northwest Harvest. On top of this, many of the food pantry’s donations come from the local Safeway and other local donors including restaurants and private citizens. With Safeway’s food drives this time of year, they can receive up to 16 food bags per day! HopeSource partners with a local company to store nonperishable items for later use to make the most of these donations. To supplement their short hours during the week, the organization keeps a room full of staples including beans, rice, bread, and onions free to take during any business hours. They also partner with the local animal rescue organization AARF to offer dog and cat food to clients with pets. To find out more about HopeSource, Please Visit: http://www.hopesource.us/
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| Staples Offered During Any Business Hours! |
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| Bread offered During Any Business Hours! |
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HopeSource offers education with Food
with these serving size guidelines |
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| HopeSource is able to offer unique and tasty proteins thanks to donations like this one...Elk! |
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| Bags from Safeway awaiting sorting |
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| This row of fridges and freezers keeps food donations fresh! |
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To help shopping, food bank clients choose items
they would like from this white board
and volunteers find the items in the fridges and freezers. |
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| Some of the Pet Food Donations courtesy of AARF |
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Some of the Food Available to HopeSource Clients
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Don't forget to make use of your volunteer's talents!
HopeSource does with this volunteer's love for organization |
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