Happy New Year!

MPC would like to welcome you to 2012.

We hope that this year is rich with opportunities and good fortune for you.

For some in our community 2012 will just be another year in which they will continue to struggle to have enough to eat.  Each year more than 15,000 Seattle residents rely upon the 3,000,000 no-cost meals our members serve.  More than 70 non-profit meal programs work collaboratively through MPC to meet the growing hunger needs in our community.  During 2011 King County meal programs received more than $750,000 worth of food, equipment, and technical assistance as a direct result of MPC’s work in the community.

We would like to help you in starting off 2012 right with an opportunity to help those less fortunate.  We urge you to help us support those in need by supporting MPC today.  By investing in the large network that MPC provides, your investment will impact not just one program but 70.  Meal providers are a critical aspect of our emergency food system.  They are the last hope for those who are un-housed, or have exhausted all of their other resources.  Without their hard work and our support thousands of people will go hungry each day.

Last year, for every one dollar invested into MPC we leveraged twelve dollars back into the meal provider system.

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Working to End Hunger in our Community

Meals Partnership Coalition is committed to creating a community where no one ever has to go hungry due to poverty, illness, or homelessness.  Our members work collaboratively to ensure that all King County residents have access to healthful and nutritious meals, and with your help serve more than 3,000,000 prepared meals each year.

Meals Partnership Coalition Provides…

• An opportunity for more than 160 King County meal providers to work collaboratively with one another.
• Community outreach to improve public awareness of meal providers and their work against hunger.
• The acquisition & coordination of food and equipment donations on behalf of meal programs in need.
• Meal providers with training and mentoring on effective meal program operations.
• A coordinated bulk food purchasing system for meal programs.
• Education to community leaders about food and structural needs in the meal provider community.
• Nutrition education opportunities to providers and community members.
• Improved food safety within our community through trainings and program assessments.
• Partnerships with hunger advocacy agencies to support the work of meal providers statewide.

“America is the richest country in the world. And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbors will go to bed hungry.  It may be your child’s schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach.  Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn’t make ends meet.  Perhaps it’s an elderly neighbor who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries.  The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America.”

~ David Nasby