Community Involvement: Food Lifeline 2025

We’re spilling the beans on our first community service project of 2025.

To kick off the year, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work at Food Lifeline in Seattle. As a team, we sorted and packaged nearly 2,000 pounds of pinto beans, helping provide nutritious staples to food banks across Western Washington.

Food Lifeline operates on a powerful belief: access to food is a basic human right. Every year, they serve 1.37 million people facing hunger by sourcing surplus food from across the industry and distributing it through a network of 350 food banks, shelters, and meal programs. That’s more than 282,000 meals a day.

But their impact goes beyond meals. Food Lifeline tackles the root causes of hunger, poverty, racial inequity, and social injustice through advocacy, partnerships, and community-based programs. They center the voices of those with lived experience, recognizing that meaningful solutions come from the people most affected.

We came ready to lend a hand and left with full hearts (and maybe a few rogue beans in our shoes). It was a powerful reminder of what’s possible when communities come together.

Want to join the mission? Learn more or donate at foodlifeline.org/donate.