Two million meals will be provided for neighbors in need thanks to the generosity of community members who attended the Abundance Dinner and Auction.
Our annual Abundance Dinner and Auction was a huge success raising $378,476 to provide food for hungry families and individuals throughout the community.
Thank you to all who attended and donated to this event for sharing your abundance with those in need and for generously supporting our mission to ensure that no person in Pierce County goes hungry.
View photos from the event here!
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Saturday, Nobember 19, 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Charles Wright Academy
Join us at Empty Bowls! Choose from more than 1,200 bowls to purchase for the home and for holiday gifts. After purchasing bowls, guests are served a bowl of soup (in a separate bowl) donated by local chefs.
All proceeds from this event support Emergency Food Network's mission of providing food to our neighbors in need, "so that no person goes hungry."
Admission for Empty Bowls is FREE. Bowl prices start at $10. We hope to see you there!
For more information visit our website!
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You're going to see a new face in EFN's volunteer programs! Sam Cook, EFN's new Volunteer Coordinator, started at the beginning of October. This is a brand new position for EFN. Sam will be a serving an 11-month AmeriCorps position that is partnered with Habitat for Humanity. While Sam is with EFN, she will be leading the new Sort, Pack, Stack project, working with farm volunteer groups, attending community outreach events, and much more!
Sam is a recent PLU graduate, with a degree in Finance. She enjoys the collaborative attitude of the nonprofit sector and is excited to explore her career interests while at EFN. Sam is originally from Colorado and enjoys hiking and scoping out the best coffee shops.
If you're at EFN's Distribution Center or Mother Earth Farm, please stop by and say hello to Sam!
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Black Friday. Cyber Monday. #GivingTuesday!
We have two days for getting deals and now we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back.
Mark your calendar for November 29! Join millions around the world coming together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.
Help Emergency Food Network give food for our neighbors in need by making a donation on #GivingTuesday.
Don't want to wait until November 29? You can give now to provide food for your neighbors in need!
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Fall is in full swing out here at Emergency Food Network's Mother Earth Farm. We've been working on cleaning up and putting things away from the growing season. It's hard to believe now with the rainy weather that we once needed thousands of feet of drip tape for irrigation. A big project this month has been carefully rolling and storing that tape for next year. No small feat.
We're also still harvesting. Our mighty 2016 farm crew from the Washington Correction Center for Women has been a huge help this year. We've harvested over 100,000 pounds of organically grown fruits and vegetables and are still giving out around 1,000 pounds a week. A highlight of this time of year are the Brussel sprouts which are a great treat.
The other big project has been planting and prepping our tunnels. We built 4 new structures last fall to boost our winter growing. Pictured above, is our big high tunnel full of greens. Once these are harvested, we'll switch to one more crop before 2017's cucumbers.
This month is coming up to the end of our season with our crew from the Washington Correction Center for Women. We want to extend a huuuuuuge thank you to them for all their hard work, energy, ideas and community over the course of this season. Thank you!!!
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Margaritha Leuenberger is our November Volunteer of the Month! Margaritha has been lending a hand at the Mobile Food Bank since the site opened in 2014! Her kindness has been invaluable as she helps food bank guest's in any way possible. We are grateful for her strength and character, knowing that at the end of each shift food bank guests have had a pleasurable and dignified experience at the Mobile with the guidance of such amazing volunteers as Margaritha.
Thank you for your being so great, Margaritha!
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Pierce County Mustang Club
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Several times a year for the past four years the Pierce County Mustang Club members drive their Ford Mustangs (old and new) to our Distribution Center to at our Repack Project (our parking lot looks amazing with all those Mustangs!). We chose the Pierce County Mustang Club as our November Volunteer Group of the Month because of their longtime dedication to relieve hunger in Pierce County, always coming to our Repack Project with a full group, and always with great spirit and smiles (despite the tape machines!).
Thank you Pierce County Mustang Club for your continued partnership. You are a true friend of EFN and the community!
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Thank you to the following partners who made generous grants to Emergency Food Network in October:
- Elizabeth A. Lynn Foundation
- Franciscan Foundation
- Golden State Foods Foundation
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