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RVFB stands as a trusted community resource, serving as Seattle’s busiest food bank. Together, we create a place to grow access, knowledge, & stability. Your support provides fresh, culturally relevant produce for our guests, brings students & their families to the table over nourishing meals, & empowers those we serve to find resources & address the issues underlying food insecurity.

The food bank has a strong and committed Board of Directors who meet regularly, as well as dedicated volunteer committees who create community events and fundraising initiatives to keep the food bank thriving.

Because of donors like you, in 2020 …

We fed over 8,000 unique individuals 103,936 times.**Tracking the exact number of individuals we fed was unsafe and not possible at the start of the pandemic. We believe this number to be much higher (in 2019, we fed 18,000 unique individuals when we served fewer total households).We we went from delivering 200 grocery bags a week to over 1,000 through our Home Delivery Program. Through this program, we provided groceries for 11,765 households. Home Delivery was our primary model to reach clients safely during the height of the pandemic. Our backpack program provided 21,935 bags of food to over 1,600 students at 14 schools. That’s a 167%% growth from 2019 to 2020.From 2019 to 2020, the number of To-Go Bags requested by Seattle’s increasing homeless & transient populations skyrocketed. We handed out over 32, 523 To-Go Bags, a 170% increase compared to last year.Our 360 Support Program supported over 175 individuals with housing, medical, dental, & employment.In total, we distributed 879,032 pounds of food. In 2020 we welcomed 2,737 new donors and 559 new volunteers.Thank you to our volunteers, donors, and supporters. Your support allowed us to keep our community fed during a global pandemic.