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Friday, November 24, 2006
Relief agencies could use a little themselves
Donations of food, money fall this year
Cash donations to Northwest Harvest through October were down 20 percent from a year earlier, raising some concern in the statewide hunger relief agency as it heads toward the end of its main fundraising period.
"We've had a really bad September and October, and we really don't know why," spokeswoman Claire Acey said. "We see a trend in election years, believe it or not, that it's off people's radar screens."
The agency raises about 75 percent of its cash donations from October through early December, she said. It typically operates with a $6 million annual budget.
Donations of food also appear to be down. At Northwest Harvest's Cherry Street food bank in Seattle, "usually the Monday before Thanksgiving, we have people pulling up in cars all day, dropping off donations," Acey said. "We had a very low turnout on Monday."
On the other hand, needy people waited in huge lines to receive turkey hindquarters early this week, with more than 2,000 people helped Wednesday, a higher total than normal.
The Salvation Army will be setting out most of its red kettles today as it starts its holiday fundraising efforts to support social services, spokeswoman Shanti Hahler said in Seattle.
Hopelink, a Redmond-based agency that provides food and housing assistance to low-income people in North and east King County, made an appeal this week for food, new toys and clothing.
For more information, contact Northwest Harvest at 206- 625-0755 or online at northwestharvest.org; the Salvation Army at 800-736-7291 or nwarmy.org; or Hopelink at 425-869- 6000 or hope-link.org.
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