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Thank You St. Catherine for Donations!
St. Catherine of Siena School, founded in 1941, bustles with over 250 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Located in the Maple Leaf area in North Seattle, the school has held several “Drop off Your Children, Drop off Your Donations for St. Vincent de Paul in 2015. The first was in late May and the…
Read MoreThank You St. George Students!
We offer a big thanks and round of applause to the students of St. George School who worked at the food bank here Thursday, Oct. 22. They were engaged, compassionate, and hard working. We offer everyone at St. George, including our St. Vincent de Paul Conference, the principal and the teachers for this service oriented…
Read MoreEnvironmental & Adventure Students Visit
We were fortunate to host 20 plus students, several parents and teachers from The Environmental and Adventure School on Tuesday, Oct. 20. Thank you for your youth, energy, questions and great work at our food bank. The school is a Lake Washington School District “Choice School” serving 6th through 8th grade students. The school was…
Read MoreWells Fargo Grant Award for SVdP!
Today, like most days, the St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) Helpline will receive at least 180 calls for help. That is a very normal day for us. This works out to over 48,000 calls on an annual basis. For the past nine consecutive years, St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle King County has been the…
Read MoreOur Committed Food Bank Volunteers!
We want to thank some of the most giving and wonderful people you will ever know—our Georgetown Food Bank volunteers! Most of these folks are here every week, cleaning, organizing, greeting needy neighbors with dignity and respect and distributing food. No question about it. They represent the best because they all believe deeply in giving and…
Read More2015 Day of Caring
Last Friday was the 2015 United Way Day of Caring, the largest volunteer event in Washington. St. Vincent de Paul was lucky to have 60 volunteers serve in our food bank and five stores. These great volunteers came from the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, Virginia Mason, Microsoft, Providence, and Seattle Bank. We are so…
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