OSL Serves

This year, OSL is raising GiveBIG funds for the all the equipment needed for our new 13,000 square foot Commercial Kitchen and warehouse. This fabulous kitchen will open in late spring 2024 and will be equipped to provide 10,000 to 15,000 nutrient dense, culturally appropriate, no-cost, excellent meals, daily. It will also provide over-flow dry, cold, and frozen storage, for the emergency food system in Seattle.

Our fundraising goal for this “Dream come Reality” project is 1.6 million dollars.  $670,000 of that is for new equipment alone.  We hope you will have an interest in helping OSL reach our goal!  Your GiveBIG donation will go directly to supporting this project.

Acknowledgement of those who help make this dream a reality will be prominently displayed and will commemorate your essential role in bringing our dream to life! You will be included on our beautiful new donor wall!

About OSL:
OSL, a nonprofit, is in our 35th year serving nutritionally dense, culturally appropriate, and medically sensitive meals to people experiencing homelessness and hunger in the community.   Considered a “first responder” for the emergency food system in the Greater Seattle area, OSL serves more than 6800 meals daily, providing breakfast, lunch and dinner to 66 programs; including, but not limited to: shelters and transitional shelter programs, permanent housing support, youth and children’s programs, homeless veteran programs, City sanctioned encampments and tiny house villages, the no-barrier OPEN MEAL SITE, senior adult programs, day programs needing nutritional support, and several others.  

OSL also supports the greater emergency meal and human services system through our Food In Motion program by providing transportation and product, and by delivering much needed meal and sanitation resources, to other Seattle and King County-based agencies.  Every organization in the emergency meal system works daily to keep the food on the table and is essential to the health of so many in the local community.

Listen to OSL board member, David Mayor, share his thoughts in this four minute video on what the organization 
means to him and why it imperative to GiveBig!

Mission Statement: 
To provide dignity, care, and compassion through action, with the example that each person can make a difference.

To educate and advocate acceptance and understanding of each other's differences.

To ultimately bring about the realization that we are all a vital part of this world and with extended effort put an end to homelessness, hunger and hatred.

Spirit Statement:
Nutritional Excellence; a right we are born to, not a privilege we earn…