Featured Resources
Closing: February 2026 Partner Convening
CEO Liz Baxter leads our reflections and closing of the day, with next steps and a call to action to come together to fill the gaps in funding and services.
Group Work: Food Insecurity in the North Sound
Attendees discuss and share out about what ways their organizations are seeing food insecurity with the people they serve, how their organizations are working o...
Meals on Wheels
Leah Hammon, Nutrition Direction from Homage Senior Services, shares about Meals on Wheels.
School Food Programs
Lindsay Ahrens, Director of Food Services from Bellingham Public Schools, shares about Free & Reduced Lunch and school-based food programs.
Food Banks in the Food Landscape
Katie Rains is the Director of Food Systems Initiatives for the Washington State Department of Agriculture. She leads a panel of food bank leaders discussing th...
SNAP-WIC
Karina Wiggins of Within Reach shares about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
February 2026 Partner Convening Keynote: Thomas Reynolds
Thomas Reynolds, CEO of Northwest Harvest, gives an interactive presentation on ‘Hunger is more than the absence of food.’
February 2026 Partner Convening: Grounding
CEO Liz Baxter grounds the audience with our land acknowledgement, group agreements, the day’s objectives, and then ACH Impact & Evaluation Specialist Mat...
Planting the Seeds
Mike Cohen of the Bellingham Food Bank kicks off our learning with a powerful reckoning of food insecurity as a public health crisis.
February Convening: Welcome and Opening
Our partners get settled in for a day of learning and discussion around Food Security topics. Thank you for our Tribal welcome by Barbara Juarez (Lummi) of Nort...
The Intersection of Culture and Cuisine: How Food Shapes Our Identity
Food fosters connection and cultural understanding by revealing traditions, social structures, and gender roles through cuisine. Conversations with Arts faculty...
The Global Food System: An Analysis
This resource examines the global food system using systems science, showing current trends are unsustainable and outlining a plan for a resilient system within...
What You Need to Know About Funding Cuts to Food Banks, SNAP, and Medicaid
This resource explains how recent and proposed federal funding cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and food assistance programs will increase hunger, strain food banks, and...
Advancing Equity in Food Systems: Supporting Food Justice and Food Sovereignty, and Ending Food Apartheid
This resource offers a guide for local governments on using policy, systems, and environmental changes to address racial and economic inequities in food access....
The Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.
This article details proposed cuts and structural changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), explaining how they could reduce access to fo...
Creating The Healthiest Nation: Food Justice
This report from the American Public Health Association examines food justice as a way to address food insecurity’s root causes, emphasizing how systemic ...
Appropriations, Budget and Taxes: Federal Budget Allocations Make a Difference for Families Facing Hunger
This resource explains how Feeding America advocates during the federal budget, appropriations, and tax process to protect and strengthen nutrition programs and...
Federal Funding Cuts to Food Program Impacts Communities and Farmers
This piece explains how federal cuts to a pandemic-era local food purchasing program are reducing access to fresh, culturally relevant food for communities whil...
Food and Cooking: A Bridge to Cultural Understanding
This resource discusses how food serves as a universal connector, revealing cultural identities and histories through flavors, aromas, and shared meals. Explori...
Food Sovereignty: Climate Justice Alliance
This resource highlights the work of The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) Food Sovereignty Workgroup, which focuses on organizing frontline communities to regain ...
Washington State Office of Equity: Food Justice for All
The Washington for All initiative’s resource page addresses the connections between food, race, health, and income with the goal of dismantling inequities...
State Leadership: Governors Work to Sustain Food Assistance
This resource explains how U.S. governors used state resources, emergency funds, and innovative strategies to sustain food assistance programs like SNAP during ...
Food Justice and Food Sovereignty
This resource from Food Lifeline defines food sovereignty as the right of people to control their food systems and outlines its commitment to supporting communi...
We Are Who We Eat With: Food, Distinction, and Commensality
This resource examines how commensality, or eating together, is a significant means by which individuals form identities and social bonds, and how eating alone ...
Breaking Bread: The Functions of Social Eating
The research article examines the social benefits and evolutionary basis of eating meals with others and how social eating can enhance individual happiness, lif...
The Effects of Child Nutrition on Academic Performance: How School Meals Can Break the Cycle of Poverty
This resource from the World Food Program USA discusses the importance of nutritious school meals, which are vital to improving children’s cognitive funct...
Pathways to a Racially Just Food System
This resource explains how advancing a racially just food system requires addressing structural racism through equitable food policy, community-led governance, ...
Five Ways to Build Mindful Connections Through Food
This resource from Duke outlines strategies for transforming eating into a meaningful social and sensory experience. It emphasizes mindfulness to enhance relati...
Food is Justice
This resource from Northwest Harvest’s “Food is Justice” campaign advocates for nutritious food as a fundamental human right. The initiative e...
Culinary Comfort: Understanding the Connection between Food and Well-Being
This article examines how cultural, societal, and personal factors influence views on nutrition and health, using the Theory of Planned Behavior to show their i...
Recipes for Connection
Recipes for Connection is a resource from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) designed to help people strengthen relationships and combat lon...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived
This resource details how federal funding cuts under the Trump administration canceled tens of millions of pounds of planned food aid, sharply reducing food ban...
Flood Response: How Northwest Harvest Is Supporting Impacted Communities
This resource describes how Northwest Harvest is providing emergency food, water, and support to Washington communities affected by severe flooding.
Flood Recovery Support for Farmers
This resource is a guide to Snohomish County flood recovery programs, financial aid, and emergency support for farmers, livestock, and agricultural operations.
Applications Open For $2.5M In Washington State Disaster Assistance
This resource is an announcement and application guide for Washington State disaster assistance grants helping households recover from damage caused by historic...
United Way Snohomish County: Disaster Relief Fund
This resource is an overview of United Way of Snohomish County’s Disaster Relief Fund and coordinated response efforts to support individuals and families imp...
Historic Flood Emergency: Financial Resources and Recovery for Washingtonians
This resource is a comprehensive guide to financial assistance, recovery programs, and support services available to Washingtonians impacted by December’s his...
Washington Disaster Nutrition Assistance
This resource is an overview of USDA disaster nutrition assistance in Washington State, detailing past SNAP waivers and emergency food support provided during s...
December 2025 Flood Relief Efforts
This resource is an overview of United Ways of the Pacific Northwest’s coordinated December 2025 flood relief and long-term recovery efforts across Washington...
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services: Food Benefits and Flooding
This resource is information from Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) on food benefit replacement, emergency cash assistance update...
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services: DSHS Benefits and H.R. 1 Timeline
This resource explains how the federal H.R. 1 legislation may affect Washington State DSHS benefits—especially SNAP and Medicaid (Apple Health)—and how the ...
Federal Funding Cuts: Impact on Washington State Food Security
This resource outlines how recent federal funding cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and food bank programs are increasing hunger and straining Washington State’s emerge...
Washington’s Emergency Food System Mobilizes Amid SNAP Disruption and Record Demand
This resource describes how Washington’s emergency food system, led by Northwest Harvest, is rapidly scaling up food distribution and financial support in res...
Food Justice for All
This resource explains how food justice in Washington state connects access, affordability, and sustainability of food with health, race, income, and systemic e...
P’al Corazon | film
P’al Corazon – For the Heart – is a short documentary film about the Cultural Alimentos Project with Bellingham Food Bank and Northwest Agricu...
Climate Action for Vulnerable Communities | 2025 Network Learning Session | [Slides]
These slides accompanied our live webinar on September 17, 2025, featuring panelists Free Borsey (Children of the Setting Sun | Setting Sun Institute), Santana ...
Northwest Agricultural Business Center
We heard from many of our partners about their work, at the January 2025 Partner Convening, and its only a small percentage of the amazing work being done in ou...
Low-Income Students by School District
This resource provides data on the percentage of low-income students enrolled in public K-12 schools across various school districts in Washington State for the...
Partner Highlight: Cultural Alimentos Project | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
This is a recording of B’ham Food Bank’s Cultural Alimentos Program, presented by Stephanie Session, Steve Bader and Alex Perez which occurred during ou...
ReThink Health Toolbox Webinar: Multisolving
In this webinar, presenters provided an overview of multisolving, discussed its practical applications, and shared examples of solutions being implemented acros...
Swinomish Tribe Builds U.S.’s First Modern ‘Clam Garden,’ Reviving Ancient Practice
This article discusses what is believed to be the first clam garden, a traditional, Indigenous way of boosting shellfish production, built in the United States ...
Nourishing Culture: A Peek Inside Tulalip’s Food Sovereignty Kitchen
This resource is about unveiling the Tulalip Food Sovereignty Presentation Kitchen at Tulalip Northwest Indian College. This innovative kitchen space promotes f...
Frequent Users Services Enhancement ‘FUSE’ Initiative New York City FUSE II Evaluation Report
“Housing instability/homelessness increases risk for incarceration and, conversely, incarceration increases the risk for homelessness. To address these ri...
Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Honoring the Treaty Day 1.21.22 (Webinar)
This seminar is focused on honoring Indigenous communities, acknowledging the importance of treaties as the supreme law of the land, and fostering cultural awar...
Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Food Sovereignty and the 13 Moons Curriculum: Tribal Learning Series (Webinar)
This webinar features the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community sharing their 13 Moons curriculum and community garden work, which revitalizes traditional foods, me...
MDPI: Promotoras de Salud in a Father-Focused Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Border Communities: Approaches and Lessons Learned from Collaboration
This manuscript’s purpose is to describe how to engage and collaborate with promotoras in a father-focused, family-centered program for Latino families living...
MHP Salud: Roles and Impacts of Promotoras(es) de Salud
MHP Salud explains the role of a Promotores or Promotoras de Salud. Their impacts in communities and resources.
One WA School District Helped Homeless Students Graduate. Can Others?
This story on the Auburn School District in Washington State is about helping homeless students graduate by providing resources such as transportation, foo...
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course...
Indigenous Knowledge Library
Indigenous knowledge—also known as traditional knowledge—refers to information, meanings, purposes, and values that Indigenous peoples have gathered, concep...
Basic Needs: Food
North Sound ACH webinar on Basic Needs: Food, October 21, 2020
Elevate Health podcast
Elevate Health, the accountable community of health (ACH) for Pierce County in Washington state, has a podcast with regional guests to provide listeners with ac...
Editorial: Food and Grocery Workers are Essential. They Should Have “Essential” Pay and Protections Too
This article highlights risks faced by food delivery and grocery store workers, who are among the lowest paid and least protected of those deemed “essential...
As Farm Work Carries On, Some Worry About Becoming Washington State’s New Coronavirus Epicenter
This article highlights the essential work done and risks faced by farrmworkers in fields, orchards and packing houses essential to keeping grocery stores stock...
COVID-19: Investing in Black Lives and Livelihoods
This article explores how Black Americans will experience a disproportionate share of the disruption from COVID-19—from morbidity and mortality to unemploymen...
Basic Needs: Food
Physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air, clean water, and nutritious food.
Multisolving 101: Co-Creating Vital Conditions for Thriving Together
As our society grapples with multiple systemic crises, including COVID-19, climate change, and racial injustice, an opportunity for multi-solving emerges. Multi...
Unleashing the Power of the People: Lessons on Public Engagement for Environmental and Climate Justice
This report is a collection of case briefs which profiles five NAACP units with significant achievements in environmental and climate justice advocacy.
Humane Housing as a Vital Condition
Humane Housing is about stable, safe places to live, and living in diverse, vibrant communities that lead to full, productive lives. People are able to thrive w...
Environmental Health and COVID-19 Resource Library
This resource library contains curated resources on how to address the needs of environmental public health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes info...
Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being
This Community Commons collection introduces the Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being.
Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Healing Dialogue for Kamloops (Webinar)
This June 2021 webinar features Solana Booth, who shared a story and led a healing dialogue to recognize the unmarked graves at Indian Boarding Schools.
As They Take On Food Insecurity, Community-Based Health Care Organizations Have Found Four Strategies That Work
The work of community-based health care organizations across the country has highlighted four strategies that have been central to success in programs aimed at ...
Blueprint for a National Food Strategy
The Blueprint for a National Food Strategy examines the need for a cohesive national approach to food system regulation through legal and scholarly research.
Gather
“Gather,” co-produced by Illumine Film and First Nations Development Institute, outlines the revitalization and re-creation of Indigenous food systems in No...
#19: Ensuring a Food Secure Future with Paula Daniels
This podcast focuses on the food system inequities and vulnerabilities that were exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It features Paula Daniels, co-founder and “...
Community Transformation: North Sound Accountable Community of Health’s Journey
“I have an inherent belief that the more we take care of the people in our community, the better our economy and our society will be.” —Liz Baxter...
How COVID-19 Affects Farmers and the Food Supply Chain
This article discusses the weaknesses and inequities in America’s food supply system that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, as well as how and why th...
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