Kirkland Nourishing Network School Break Food Program

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As we enter our tenth year helping Kirkland school children facing food insecurity, we’re supremely grateful for your generosity helping kids thrive. You’ve helped over 800 families through the pandemic! You’ve helped your neighbors, strengthened our youth and inspired our community!

Briefly, here’s our ask:

1. 1. 1. Please invite 5 friends to go to https://kirklandnourishingnetwork.org. “We can only do this as a community.” You can also use the Sharing buttons at the bottom of this page to share the page on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media accounts.
      2. Consider donating if you can. “Now is the moment.”

Please click the Donate Now button to help!

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As we prepare for the fall holidays, we had hoped that new programs might reduce the need this year. Unfortunately, the opposite has been true. Many of the special programs set up by government agencies during the pandemic were based on temporary federal funding and have now ended – but the need has continued to grow both in numbers and severity. Many families in Kirkland are dealing with increased rents, higher costs for food, gas, and utilities, and other serious challenges. Your strong participation is once again needed to fill basic food security for many of our neighbors. 

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KNN is not the entire solution, but your help plugs an important gap that would otherwise leave kids and families at risk over school breaks. Your participation in the network is essential to support these kids and their families, because there is no other program that gets to them as effectively. Free school meals provided by the school district cover needs on days school is in session. Pantry Packs, from Lake Washington Schools Foundation, cover normal weekends.

KNN supports families during the school breaks. Most of you know this. We include it so when you share this notice with your friends, they can get a better picture. Letting your friends know about this can also be very helpful in lightening the load and keeping the network growing.

Again, here’s our ask:

1. 1. 1. Please invite 5 friends to go to https://kirklandnourishingnetwork.org. “We can only do this as a community.” You can also use the Sharing buttons at the bottom of this page to share the page on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media accounts.
      2. Consider donating if you can. “Now is the moment.”

Donate Now

As is usual, we work with the school staff who know these children well. Your support goes directly to the families, and we offset the costs with volunteer efforts and store discounts for large orders. In fact, your kindness stimulates help from the Kirkland Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and other organized efforts. Your reputation for compassion has sparked other communities to start volunteer programs to help like Kirkland does.

Please donate what you are able. Our fiscal sponsor, Nourishing Networks Consortium, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so donations are matchable by corporate giving programs and may be tax deductible depending on how you file. Every dollar helps!

Bless you for caring.

– From the volunteers at Kirkland Nourishing Network

P.S. Please do share with a friend!

P.P.S. If you or someone you know wants to be added to our list of supporters and receive notifications about our efforts, you may send an email to daveasher@comcast.net. You will receive an acknowledgement when the email you provide is added.

Please complete the form below to donate either one-time or to set up a recurring monthly donation. You can use either the buttons to select an amount, or enter your desired amount into the box with the “$”. After selecting or entering an amount, please click the “Donate” button at the bottom. See below the form for other ways to donate. Thanks!

If you prefer to donate by check, please make the check payable to “Nourishing Networks Consortium”. Write “KNN School Break Food” on the memo line of the check (or somewhere on the face of it). Mail or deliver the check to:

Randy will make sure your donation is designated for the Kirkland Nourishing Network School Break Food program. Thanks!
Nourishing Networks Consortium (NNC) is classified as a public charity under the Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Kirkland Nourishing Network School Break Food Program is a project fiscally-sponsored by NNC. As such, we are qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section §2055, §2106 or §2522 of the Code. The federal tax ID for NNC is 46-4610245.