The South Kitsap Helpline

The South Kitsap Helpline is non-profit organization which has served South Kitsap children, adults and senior citizens in need since 1980.

Helpline is dedicated to providing food and other assistance, as well as referrals to our fellow community members who find themselves in crisis.

Our agency is comprised of the Helpline Food Bank and Vintage to Vogue Treasures and Collectibles, a consignment and thrift store. Both are housed in the Westbay Center, located at 1351 Bay Street in Port Orchard, Washington. Proceeds from the store help to benefit our food bank. The food bank is located directly behind the store and the entrance faces the bay.

We encourage you to learn more about this worthwhile organization which has positively impacted the lives of so many people in the South Kitsap community and beyond.

Ways you can get involved:

Contribute your time and talents as a volunteer
Contribute your items for resale in our store
Shop for great deals in our store    
Donate food to the South Kitsap Helpline Food Bank
Contribute financially to help us meet the needs of those we serve

There are many other opportunities available for you to become involved!  For more information, please call (360) 876-4089.


THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Some great businesses and organizations that are currently helping our food bank by holding food/fund/clothing/toy drives are listed below. We hope you will show your support to them for their efforts! Thank you!

Mullenix Elementary

South Kitsap Relay for Life

The Kitsap Regional Library System

If you are collecting for the food bank  and would like to be included on this list, please send information (and if you would like, a link to your website) to skhljennifer@wavecable.com.

 

FOOD BANK NEEDS:

Boxed Dinners

Canned Tuna/Chicken

Cereal

Diapers/Baby Wipes

Dry Beans

Flour

Fruit (Canned & Fresh)

Macaroni & Cheese

Noodles/Pasta

Peanut Butter

Personal Care Items (soap, razors,  toothpaste etc.)

Rice

Soup (Canned & Dry Mixes)

Toilet paper & paper products

Vegetables (Canned & Fresh)

 

Words to Live By:

"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people"

--Harry Chapin

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

7/5/09 Garden Festival & Capital Campaign Launch with Ciscoe Morris!

South Kitsap Helpline's first annual "Garden Festival" at Port Orchard Nursery is Sunday, July 5th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The nursery is located at 1012 Mitchell Road, Port Orchard.

This is open to the public and offers a vendor market full of gifts, plants, flowers and garden art. We will also offer free children's workshops throughout the day. This is free to the public, but donations to the food bank are gratefully accepted. General parking for the event is on the south side of South Kitsap High School. Handicapped parking is available on Mitchell Road in front of the nursery.

Entertaining TV personality and Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris will be speaking at the event from 4-5 p.m. that day. Tickets to see Ciscoe are $25 and include a reception with him from 5-6 p.m. with delicious hors d'oeuvres by Port Orchard's own Purple Fig Catering.

Please call 360-876-4089 or email skhljennifer@wavecable.com for more information or to reserve your seat to hear Ciscoe!  We are still seeking vendors for the event--please call or email for a vendor application today!

As you may have read, the South Kitsap Helpline is hoping to purchase the Port Orchard Nursery which will allow us to greatly expand the services our program currently offers. With the site, come plans to not only grow much of our own healthy food for the food bank and to help people learn to grow their own, but to expand our revenue generating operations to better support our programs. We are currently pursuing a number of private foundation grants to make this happen. If you are interested in donating towards this project, please make tax-deductible donations to:

South Kitsap Helpline

Attn: Nursery Project

1351 Bay Street

Port Orchard, WA 98366

Thank you very much for your generous support!

TAX ID 91-1117868
1351 Bay Street
Port Orchard, WA 98366
(360) 876-4089
Fax: (360) 876-3988
 
 
 

 

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