Community

In early December, St. Vincent de Paul unveiled our new mural by artist Blanca Santander in collaboration with students from Kent schools, community partners, and volunteers with funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at Centro Rendu Hispanic Outreach Center in our Kent Thrift Store. We are very grateful for Blanca’s participation in the…

There are thousands of Veterans in Seattle and King County who need our help, our support and our respect. While there are many agencies that serve Veterans, we should all do much more than just think of them once a year on Veteran’s Day. Our soldiers preserve our freedom and safety and we should be…

We want to thank our friends at FedEx for donating generously to our Food Bank. Our Georgetown Food and Clothing Bank serves 400-500 households every Tuesday and Thursday and another 50-100 homeless individuals every Friday. We appreciate the thoughtfulness of the donation from FedEx of non-perishable foods, as well as diapers and toilet paper. Thank…

St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle|King County (SVdP) was very pleased to host a group of eleven ninth grade students and their advisor on Tuesday October 14th for a three hour service learning field trip to the agency’s community service center and food bank at 5972 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The group listened to…

We have been wanting to build a community garden here at St. Vincent de Paul’s Food Bank. The vision for the garden is to grow produce, beautify the landscape, and serve as a model garden for families who want to learn how to grow their own garden. Last week, as part of United Way’s Day…

Thank you to the 10th Grade students from the Northwest School, who volunteered in our Food Bank last week. These awesomely kind students helped sort clothing our Clothing Bank. They also handed out food to our guests, with bright, shining faces. We are really grateful that these students spent the day with us to help…