THANKS A MILLION

on Thursday, 04 June 2020. Posted in Blog & News

THANKS A MILLION! To everyone who helped us on this journey, a HUGE THANK YOU! With their help, 1 million pounds of processing potatoes were donated to those in need during these difficult times. We met some incredible people and had some unforgettable moments we will cherish. We received so many thoughtful messages and donations from people across the country, it was an amazing experience being able to feed those in need during these uncertain times.

Our road to a million mission was a huge success thanks to all of the wonderful groups listed below. Without help from these generous folks and donors, we wouldn't have been able to do it!

 

 

 

 

 

Desert Ridge

The City of Ritzville

Grant County Fairgrounds

The Outlet Collection Mall

Three Rivers Convention Center

Toyota Center

Visit Tri-Cites

City of Kennewick

2nd Harvest Tri-Cities

Tacoma Dome (Tacoma Venues and Events)

City of Tacoma

MacMillan-Piper

Seattle Emergency Food Network

National Guard

Cascade Mall

City of Burlington

Farmers Equipment Company, Burlington

City of Mount Vernon

Spokane County Fair & Expo Center

2nd Harvest Spokane Helping Hands Sedro Woolley

Sunset Community Church

City of Renton

Freightliner Northwest

Faith Harvest

Kwik Lok

all of the countless volunteers and those who donated to our GoFundMe

So where were a million pounds of Washington processing potatoes donated? Listed below are all the cities we were able to feed!

4/29/2020 Ritzville 50,000
4/30/2020 Moses Lake 50,000
5/7/2020 Auburn 100,000
5/8/2020 Kennewick 50,000
5/11/2020 Wenatchee 50,000
5/14/2020 Tacoma 200,000
5/19/2020 Burlington 100,000
5/20/2020 Sedro Woolley Helping Hands 50,000
5/20/2020 Yakima Northwest Harvest 50,000
5/27/2020 Spokane 100,000
5/28/2020 Emergency Food Network, Tacoma 50,000
5/29/2020 Renton 50,000
6/2/2020 Olympia 50,000
6/2/2020 Eastern WA Food Banks 50,000

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Encouraging school foodservice operators to use more poatoes

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