Northwest Life Foundation was born one summer from a desire to help the 16,000 kids in the Kent/Renton, WA area who receive a free breakfast and lunch during the school year, but do not have this opportunity in the summer. Our first program, PB&J provided loaves of bread and kid-friendly groceries to kids all summer long. It is now in its fifth season - providing groceries, and a hot meal to families in need every single week.

From there, we have expanded to add several other events and areas of service.

We provide:

Backpacks and school supplies each summer – this year we gave 1500.

Turkeys and Thanksgiving groceries in November – this year we provided for over 1100.

Toys and gifts for kids at Christmas – this year we provided 500 toys.

We work with local schools to mentor at-risk students.

We need your support:

For just $15, you can provide a brand new backpack full of paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, notebooks, a glue stick, eraser, ruler and more.

For just $15 you can provide a family with a turkey and groceries for Thanksgiving.

For just $20 you can provide a child with a brand new, wrapped toy at Christmas.

We accept donations and partner with other organizations to acquire supplies and resources. We have also developed gift-matching relationships with several companies.Here are a few of the companies who match employee donations:

Boeing

Microsoft

Nordstrom

Alaska Airlines

T-Mobile

(Please note with your donation envelope if you are an employee or if you would like us to contact your business about matching contributions).