Our new home...a work in progress

[left] This will be the asset building section of the site. This space will provide services like adult education, literacy and employment



[below] The view walking from the repection into the grocery store. This will be the location of the Hopelink happenings postings.

[left] This is the warehouse in which the food will be located in the grocery store-like format.

[below] A tentative space for the breakroom, tutoring desks and meeting space for staff and volunteers.

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[left] the racks which will hold the food need to be filled so we need volunteers to pitch in and donate as much as possible.

[below] as you can see, there is quite a bit that needs to be done to this site in order to get it up and running and Hopelink is doing all they can to fulfil their goals.

[left] The parking lot outside the new site needs some work as well as the outside of the building. Hopelink needs to raise funds for these renovations to occur.

[below] The sheer square footage of the new site is something to get excited about. The new facility will allow Hopelink to reach out to even more people than they currently have resources for.

Getting started...

Hopelink has been helping to fight poverty in North and East King County in Washington state for more than 35 years. The organization is dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency in all members of our community and providing the tools through which they can make a lasting change. Learn more about our services here. http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/programs


To better serve our community Hopelink building a new facility in the Kirkland/Northshore area. The site will feature a grocery store-type foodbank, something no other Hopelink facility has featured before! This innovative site will also house a library, classrooms for adult education, as well as a large foodbank featuring produce and dairy cases.



We need your help to make this community resource a reality - And there are many ways you can help.

You can adopting a project by helping to raise funds for one specific component of the new site, you can participate in done-in-a-day projects to prepare the site for the move-in, or you can help move materials from the two former food banks to the Kirkland/Northshore site, or even simply spreading the word on the new facility and telling people what Hopelink is all about through twitter, facebook or LinkedIn.


START HERE: View the list of projects you can raise funding for can be found on the Hopelink website at http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/onthemove/adoptaproject. Please contact Barbara Whitehurst at barbaraw@hope-link.org or 425-869-6011 for information and tours.



All the done-in-a-day projects can be found at http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/onthemove/doneinaday and please contact Sheila Sloan-Evans at 425-869-6066 or sheilase@hope-link.org for more information on what you can do to help.



Please tell your friends and family what Hopelink is doing to help our community and getting the word out that we need all the help we can get with the Kirkland/Northshore site.



You can directly support the project here: and instead of donating in person, save time by donating online at www.firstgiving.com/onthemove