Throughout Seattle, you've likely noticed Real Change vendors working hard to sell the award-winning weekly newspaper to customers. Yet due to COVID-19, customers are sparse and the income vendors depend upon for food is alarmingly low, or has vanished altogether.
Individuals experiencing homelessness amid this pandemic and without reliable access to food need your help. Today, you can make a HUGE impact on the life of a Real Change News vendor by donating critically needed food.
It's easy! Choose any of the below projects to join and contact us to get started:
Start a Food and Supply Drive!Lead a food and supply drive among friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and more! We'll provide a list of urgently- needed items to collect, and you can do so virtually (via email, social media, etc.) or in-person by safely collecting items and scheduling a drop-off at our office!
Go Online!Head to our Target Wish List (link: tgt.gifts/realchangegroceries) or the online store of your choice, to donate items without ever leaving your computer! All donations can be sent directly to our office for immediate distribution: Real Change, 219 1st Ave. S., Suite 220, Seattle, WA 98104.
Shop! During your next trip to the grocery store, use the Grocery List we provide to add items to your cart for vendors. We'll schedule a drop-off date/time at our Seattle office that works for your schedule.
Cook! Do you have a passion for cooking, or do you look forward to making meals, especially for others? Sign-up to make individual meals for vendors! We recommend dropping-off no more than 50 lunches at a time, but less is also great. Popular meals have included: sack lunches, individually wrapped burritos, or your choice of meals/sides packaged in disposable to-go containers.
***Please email volunteer@realchangenews.org to provide food and impact lives today!***
Real Change is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit and all donations are tax deductible.
More about Real Change: Founded in 1994, the Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project is an award-winning nonprofit newspaper that provides immediate employment opportunity to homeless and low-income people throughout the Pacific Northwest. Highly regarded as the leading street newspaper in North America, Real Change provides a low-barrier employment opportunity to an average of 250 homeless and low-income individuals each month while challenging the structures that create poverty. We envision a just, caring and inclusive community, where people are no longer marginalized by racism and classism and have the means to live with dignity. To read more about the Real Change Vendors who earn income by selling the street newspaper, please read profiles published at https://www.realchangenews.org/vendor-profiles.
Real Change exists to provide opportunity and a voice for low-income and homeless people while taking action for economic, social and racial justice.
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Founded in 1994, the Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project is an award-winning nonprofit newspaper that provides immediate employment opportunity to homeless and low-income people throughout the Pacific Northwest. Highly regarded as the leading street newspaper in North America, Real Change provides a low-barrier employment opportunity to an average of 250 homeless and low-income individuals each month while challenging the structures that create poverty. We envision a just, caring and inclusive community, where people are no longer marginalized by racism and classism and have the means to live with dignity. To read more about the Real Change Vendors who earn income by selling the street newspaper, please read profiles published at https://www.realchangenews.org/vendor-profiles
Advocacy & Human Rights
Homeless & Housing
Hunger
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity, with no fixed address.
(0.000,0.000)
DATE POSTED
January 25, 2021
SKILLS
Food Delivery / Distribution
Food Service
Fundraising
Community Outreach
Food & Beverage Services
GOOD FOR
Kids
Teens
People 55+
Group
REQUIREMENTS
We welcome all individual volunteers and are happy to support companies, organizations, or groups interested in teaming up to fight hunger!
