"Our mission is to assist people who are hungry in the City of Lynnwood and South Snohomish County by providing a highly efficient food distribution center.
The Lynnwood Food Bank is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that collects and distributes more than 870,000 pounds of food each year to low-income children, adults and seniors. The Food Bank currently serves an average of 1062 households (avg. 3,990 individuals) each month.
For a copy of our financial statement, IRS Form 990, which includes larger grants for the new building and truck, please download from the "Links" page, e-mail us using the "Contact Us" page, or call us at 425-745-1635.
Peg Amarok, our Administrator since 1998, has retired.
Peg was one of the original members of the adult Sunday School class who started this ministry in about 1978 and she also assisted the Church secretary. She has worked voluntarily and faithfully over all these years to help the needy in our community. She assisted the previous administrators for many years and then was appointed Administrator in 1998. She guided the Food Bank through these growing and transitional years when we incorporated, built a new building, and received a new truck. She received the Lynnwood Rotary’s Kathy O’Connor Volunteer of the Year Award in 2005.
We gratefully thank her (and husband Larry) for her years of service and wish her well during retirement.
We appreciate our volunteers!
Our thanks to the many faithful volunteers who staff the food bank. Their duties are many and include driving the trucks to pick up food from Northwest Harvest warehouse in Kent to the Volunteers of America in Everett, and all the grocery stores and warehouse who donate food and also from whom we purchase food at discounted prices. Our volunteers load and unload the trucks, go through the donated food, toss the unacceptable and sort the good. They cook for the volunteers on Wednesday. They organize pick-up schedules, order food from wholesalers, answer the phones, organize the business aspects and keep the books. They control the waiting line, check the clients in and maintain the computer system. They fill the grocery carts and staff the long line of tables to help clients get what they need and want while pacing the distribution so everyone coming later in the day gets a fair share. And then begins the sometimes arduous task of cleaning up and putting away...and then it starts all over again in just a few days.
We have never been closed because of the weather. Just recently we kept the trucks parked one day instead of doing pick-ups because of the treacherous snow-covered roads. We did not even miss a single Distribution Day when we moved into the new building in June of 2006.
Last Fall we honored their tireless service with a luncheon for them at Silver Creek Family Church.
