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- Support local restaurants, bakeries, spas, retailers, contractors, auto repairs shops, farms, and more by keeping your shopping local. Check out this guide from King County.
- Visit the City of Seattle's website to find organizations that are coordinating volunteers and/or donations to help others during these difficult times.
- Help our neighbors who are more in need than ever by donating food, hygiene items and cleaning supplies to the St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank in Georgetown.
- Drop off donations at the weekly Welcome Table meal at the Body of Christ Church in White Center (1320 SW 102nd St, Seattle 98146). They currently need tp, detergent, personal care items, dish soap, and all-purpose cleaners. Donations can be dropped off on Saturdays between 11-11:30am (before the meal to help with social distancing). You can also donate to the meal by providing non-perishable food (canned foods, mac n chees, soup, cereal, shelf-stable milk, string cheese, fruit, fruit cups, granola bars, bags of chips, etc.).
- Operation Nightwatch, a grassroots shelter that provides nightly meals and shelter to roughly 120 homeless individuals, needs ready-to-eat, individually-wrapped foods that do not need refrigeration in order to continue feeding and serving during COVID-19. They also need in-kind donations. Click here to see the list. Contact the Nightwatch office to schedule a drop-off of donated goods: 206-323-4359 or [email protected].
- Donate non-perishable breakfast bars, applesauce, granola bars, microwavable individually packaged meals, etc.to Catholic Community Services' Lazarus Day Center (2329 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle 98144). Supplies are down while the need continues to grow. The Center is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you do this, drop a note or a special treat in for the staff who are tirelessly working in less-than-ideal conditions.
- Help support individuals without documents. Unemployment insurance and most safety net programs exclude undocumented individuals. Join the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) and others in meeting their fundraising goal by giving here
- Donate to the Southwest Youth & Family Services Community Response Fund, which will provide urgent assitance to youth and families who are facing severe hardships today.
- Help mitigate the financial impact of this health crisis by donating to St. Vincent de Paul, Catholic Community Services, the OLG In-Parish Help Fund, and Catholic Relief Services. You can give directly at this link or mail/drop off a check made out to “OLG” with the donation intention written in the memo line (drop check off through the mail slot to the left of the Pastoral Center door).
- Help World Relief respond to the urgent needs of the refugee and immigrant community with emergency financial assistance. Consider joining a special offering or donating gift cards (Safeway, Dollar Tree, Amazon) to help our participants through what will be a very difficult season.
- Give blood. Help ensure that blood stays availlabe in our community by making an appointement to give blood. Contact Bloodworks Northwest to schedule today.
- Thank an "essential" worker. Leave a gift, a note, a gas card or something for the nurses, doctors, firefighters, police officers, mail carriers, shelter managers, garbage collectors, grocery store workers, delivery drivers, etc. in your area.
- The Seattle Times has compiled a growing lists of places you can support here.
- Donate to a variety of organizations and causes through the #allinseattle fund.
Share your ideas with us to keep our list fresh: [email protected]