United Way of King County

We're so happy to hear that the care packages we built for teachers alongside Nordstrom volunteers have been well received. Teachers deserve the best! 🥰

🎒Thank you to Nordstrom and United Way of King County for their donations for educators. ✏ Nordstrom put together packs of water bottles, snacks, lip balm, and handwritten notes for local teachers and community advocates. 📚Our Early Learning Program knows plenty of teachers, so those assets will be put to good use. Thank you!

Wow wow WOW 🤯 You all SHOWED UP for our inaugural Pack The Bus volunteer event!! From 9 a.m. to noon, 68 volunteers packed a whopping 2,500 care packages for local elementary and high school students. 🍎🚌🥳

Filled with full-sized shampoo, conditioner, body wash, tinned meats, dried pasta, books, card games, toys, and more, these care kits will help fill the resource gap for low-income families when school closes for the summer.

Summer should be exciting—not stressful—so we Packed The Bus to ensure kids have what they need to make summer break safe and joyous!

THANK YOU to all of our volunteers and staff who helped make this initiative a success and get necessary resources into the hands of kids who need them!🎉💛

It’s finally here!! Our staff has been working tirelessly to launch a brand new volunteer initiative called Pack The Bus, and it’s happening this week (thank you for helping us spread the word to families)! 🚌

During the summer, kids lose access to the resources schools offer—things like food, educational materials, and hygiene resources. In response, we’re Packing The Bus to bring community care kits (packs filled with all those essential items) to kids in King County.

Thank you to Communities in Schools of Greater King County for partnering with us to identify student need. We’re uniting to improve the lives of students in our area!

To all of our volunteers, now it’s time to Pack The Bus. See you Wednesday for the big event!🤝

Today we celebrated all 652 of our Free Tax Volunteers!! Thanks to their dedication this tax season, we helped our neighbors save *drumroll please🥁* 18 MILLION DOLLARS IN TAX CREDITS AND REFUNDS!!🎉

That is money straight back into the pockets of people who need it most, and we quite literally could not do this work without our volunteers.

Fours months of training, tests, and showing up for our neighbors… THANK YOU to our Free Tax Team!

RSVPs are officially open for our next Happy Hour & Hellos event on June 10 at award-winning ! Network with like-minded professionals and take action in the community. Tickets include:

🍷Wine from
🌮 Catering from BIPOC-owned
🤩 Access to a silent auction and door prizes, including bobble heads, gift basket, Summer Concert Series tickets, and more!

Limited 2 for 1 tickets are available so grab yours now.

Link to RSVP in bio🫶

We are stronger when we support one another—That’s true at an individual level and at a community level, too.

We nominated ‘That Brown Girl Cooks!’ for a Corporate Citizenship Award from yesterday because business owner Kristi Brown has truly supported our community. Whether giving time, money, or the best Seattle Soul food a person can find— makes King County better by generously supporting local philanthropy (like us!).

Congratulations to our incredible partners at Sellen Construction, , , , and who also took home awards last night!!🎉

Whether we’re helping families put food on the table or supporting neighbors through hard times, our work is possible with support from these partners. They go beyond giving, offering their time, spaces, and services to amplify our work.

Real change happens when people invest in each other. 💙

New episodes, every Monday 👉👈

“Hourglass: United Way of King County”

“Advocacy is a marathon. It's not a sprint,” said Sara Seelmeyer, United Way of King County’s Director of Ending Hunger.

Last week, Sara travelled with fellow staff members to Washington D.C. for the United Way Worldwide Advocacy Summit—a critical moment to connect with lawmakers and share stories about our community’s needs.

“While it's been great to be here in D.C. today, we know that advocacy and change takes a long time. So whether we're here in D.C. or back home in Washington, we'll keep advocating and raising these stories to our representatives.”

Hear more from Sara and our team on this week’s episode of Hourglass.

“Hourglass: A United Way of King County podcast” Episode #117

United Way King County talked to me recently about the housing affordability and food security access challenges across . I look forward to continuing my work with them to secure federal funding for hardworking Americans across our district and country.