Hunger Intervention Program in Seattle Washington

Hunger Intervention Program
Newsletter for Spring 2009

HIP Summer Fundraiser

HIP needs to raise $20,000 to sustain operations for the next budget year. Considering that we prepared, transported, and served nearly 50,000 meals last year, this is a very minimal budget.

HIP's annual fundraiser, "Feeding the Soul" will be held July 18 from 4-7 PM in the garden of one of a long-time HIP volunteer. Stacy's garden in Woodway (near Edmonds) won the grand prize in the Pacific Northwest Magazine garden competition this year. The garden is gorgeous and fits well with HIP's commitment to providing healthy menu items to hungry, homeless persons. There is a vast vegetable and herb garden, whose abundance will help supply a truly memorable menu.

Cuisine in the News

Chef Maxime Bilet, a HIP volunteer for over a year, is donating his services for Feeding the Soul.

Chef Maxime was born in Paris, grew up in London and New York City and came to Seattle to be Head Development Chef for an encyclopedia on modernist cooking.

He has served HIP breakfast guests in downtown Seattle and created delicious breakfast entrees as well.

Among a number of prestigious positions, Chef Maxime has been Head Chef of Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar, an acclaimed East Village restaurant in NYC and helped Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex of the Auberge de l'Ile in Lyon, France to open a new restaurant, L'Ambassade de l'Ile, in South Kensington, London.

Chef Maxime specializes in modernist cooking-novel techniques and approaches that elevate flavors, textures and presentation of food to an art form. Feeding the Soul guests will enjoy delicacies such as Pacific spot prawns with grilled nectarine, saffron, and cilantro blossom or strawberry gazpacho with piquillo, sorrel, and sweet almond oil.

Don't forget. Tickets are now available for HIP's fundraising event Feeding the Soul. Click the "Buy Tickets" button on the HIP Homepage.

For group discounts, contact HIP at E-mail: alison@hungerintervention.org.

New Breakfast Bag Service

HIP is expanding its services to help other hungry people in the Seattle community. To provide capacity for this, we are simplifying the meals at the downtown shelter and have a more streamlined delivery system for food and milk in place. HIP's executive director, Linda Berger is working with Food Lifeline and other supporters to obtain individual shelf-stable fruit cups and healthy snacks to include in the breakfast bags.

Serving in breakfast bags helps to speed the service—HIP has only 30 minutes to serve everyone. Also, the shelter trays are often dirty from supper the night before so the bags provide a "placemat" to serve the food safely.

Calendar

HIP Board Meetings. Second Monday of each month. Open session 7PM. Everyone welcome.
Meals Partnership Coalition Meetings. Third Thursday of each month. Contact HIP for details and meeting location E-mail: alison@hungerintervention.org.
Lake City Homelessness Task Force Meetings. Third Friday of each month. Contact HIP for details and meeting location. E-mail: alison@hungerintervention.org.

Local gardening personality, Ciscoe Morris, (above) will lend his special brand of enthusiasm and humor to Feeding the Soul.

501(c)(3) status

It's official! HIP now has tax exempt status under the public charity section 501(c)(3) of the IRS tax code. Now supporters can make tax deductible donations directly to HIP rather than to our former umbrella organization, Lake City Presbyterian Church. We are also a registered nonprofit corporation with the State of Washington. Thanks to Megan Starks (Saturday volunteer) for helping kick this process off.