Press Release: Eastern Washington Food Resource Map

Press Release: Eastern Washington Food Resource Map

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PRESS RELEASE: Food finder and donation tool for Eastern Washington Region

 

Contact: 

Luke Baumgarten, RANGE, luke@rangemedia.co

Carl Segerstrom, Waters Meet Foundation (formerly Empire Health Foundation), carl@empirehealthfoundation.org


RANGE Media, Waters Meet Foundation, and Spokane Community Against Racism have created a resource map to support individual and community responses to the current food crisis caused by the federal government shutdown and subsequent shutdown of SNAP benefits. We hope this resource, which you can find at spokane.food and easternwa.food, supports community members in connecting to the resources they need.

There are three important ways anyone can help support this work and our community: 

  • You can use the map to find places to donate by opening the lefthand panel and toggling on “Give Support”
  • You can add information on any food insecurity resources provided by your organization through this form.
  • You can help us by noting if anything is inaccurate. Please share any feedback by commenting on this spreadsheet. We will be checking this spreadsheet on a regular basis to keep information as up to date as possible.

“RANGE has never wanted to merely report on the suffering we see around us. As a worker-owned newsroom, we feel it’s our duty to use information tools like this to ease suffering whenever we can,” said RANGE Editor Luke Baumgarten, “We’re tremendously grateful to partner with Waters Meet and SCAR to get this resource live and into our community quickly, and we’re committed to making it better as we go.”

“From the beginning of this food access crisis, we have heard from community that there’s a need for more readily accessible information on where to get and give food,” said Carl Segerstrom, Communications and Storytelling Manager with Waters Meet Foundation. “We hope this tool can play a part in fulfilling this community need by helping people find resources and ways they can contribute.”

This resource was built from publicly available information, and we want to give credit to those organizations, including: The Fig Tree Directory, Spokesman Review, Sporgs: Folks Near You Doing Good Things, City of Spokane CHHS, Spokane County Food Bank Sheet, Northeastern Washington Hunger Coalition, Northwest Harvest Food Access Network, and 2nd Harvest Food Finder.