Okanogan County

Community Action Council

 

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Food Sources:

  Local Donations of Food and Money from:

  • Area Supermarkets

  • Churches

  • Home gardens

  • Food drives by schools, local clubs, and organizations

  • Area Farmers and Orchardists

  • Businesses

  • Private individuals    

Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP) of  Washington State provides funding, technical assistance and information to community and tribal programs that deliver emergency food services to hungry people in Washington State.

Click on link Emergency Food Assistance Program for more information

Northwest Harvest is the only statewide hunger relief agency in Washington. It operates the Cherry Street Food Bank in Downtown Seattle and secures over 18 million pounds of food for distribution through warehouses in Grays Harbor, King, Stevens and Yakima counties. Northwest Harvest supplies this food, without fees of any kind, to over 300 food banks and meal programs across the state. In an average month, these programs provide approximately one-half million services to people in need. More than half of those served are children and the elderly.

Northwest Harvest does not receive any city, county, state or federal funding and relies solely on contributions from individuals, businesses, foundations and other organizations
 

Click on link Northwest Harvest to learn more about Northwest Harvest

The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a Federal program that helps supplement the diets of low-income Americans, including elderly people, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance at no cost.

Under TEFAP, the U.S. Department of Agriculture makes commodity foods available to State Distributing Agencies. The amount of food that each State receives out of the total amount of food that is provided is based on the number of unemployed persons and the number of people with incomes below the poverty level in the State. States provide the food to local agencies that they have selected, usually food banks, which in turn, distribute the food to local organizations such as soup kitchens and food pantries that directly serve the public. States also provide the food to other types of local organizations, such as community action agencies, which distribute the foods directly to needy households.

Click on link  The Emergency Food Assistance Program for more information