Northwest Harvest

At this time our repack program is currently on hold. We are grateful for your desire to serve your community through Northwest Harvest and encourage you to check back mid 2022 for updated opportunities.

Northwest Harvest is Washington's only statewide hunger relief network. We collect and distribute food to more than 380 independent food banks, hot meal programs and elementary school programs throughout the state. We operate the state's largest food bank (by volume of people served), the Cherry Street Food Bank in downtown Seattle. Our support comes exclusively from individuals, community and religious groups, foundations, corporations and the food industry. Remaining true to our mission, we stay close to those we serve. Treat people with kindness and respect. Honor the privacy of donors and the people we serve. Operate simply and cost effectively.

The mission of Northwest Harvest is to provide nutritious food to hungry people statewide in a manner that respects their dignity, while fighting to eliminate hunger. In response to the social and political unrest of the late 60's, the religious community of Seattle formed the Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry. Spurred on by the Boeing layoffs of the late 60's, EMM established Northwest Harvest as an effective and efficient hunger response program which has since grown into a statewide network supplying more than 36 million pounds of food a year to more than 380 programs without fees of any kind.