Food Lifeline receives $10,000 donation from Childhood Hunger End Here campaign

Food Lifeline is located on the Fircrest campus

Shoreline based Food Lifeline, a member of the Feeding America network, today received a $10,000 donation, the equivalent of 80,000 meals, from ConAgra Foods as a result of local consumer participation in its Child Hunger Ends Here campaign.

From March to August 2012, consumers across the country supported their local Feeding America food bank to receive 80,000 meals from ConAgra Foods. By submitting a zip code and purchase code from specially-marked ConAgra Foods products on ChildHungerEndsHere Seattle residents joined in the fight against child hunger to help their local food bank win.

For each code entered on ChildHungerEndsHere, ConAgra Foods donated the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America, up to a maximum of three million meals. A portion of those three million meals –80,000 meals –have been designated for each of the ten food banks in the Feeding America network that received the most code entries in their zip code.

Food Lifeline was part of the top ten based upon the number of codes entered within their service area.

Designed to draw awareness and support for the nearly 17 million U.S. children who live in food insecure households, ConAgra Foods’ Child Hunger Ends Here campaign provides consumers an easy way to get involved in the fight against child hunger.

The Child Hunger Ends Here campaign is part of a larger commitment to Feeding America. As Feeding America’s Leadership Partner in the fight to end child hunger, the company and the ConAgra Foods Foundation, have collectively donated 302 million pounds of food and invested more than $37 million dollars to combat child hunger since 1993.