Donate by Dec. 2!
The Chamber has teamed up with KING 5 this year to help raise money for their annual Home Team Harvest holiday food drive.
We set a goal to raise $1 for each of the Chamber's 2,200 member companies. Already, we've received some amazing donations, so we're upping our game. With your help, we can raise $10,000! That amount would provide approximately 14,925 meals for a family of three.
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About Home Team Harvest
Home Team Harvest launched in December 2001, just a few short months after the September 11 attacks. The goal was to develop a project that would tap into the community’s desire to reach out while having a meaningful impact at home. A poll of nonprofit partners made it clear the greatest help would come from addressing the basic need of hunger.
On a cold December morning, KING 5 anchors, staff, and local celebrities set up on the street outside the KING 5 building in Seattle to collect food and money. The name for the campaign comes from KING 5’s decades-long commitment to community under The Home Team brand. That first effort raised 90,000 pounds of food and $31,000 dollars, the equivalent of 254,812 meals. It was considered a great success and an annual campaign was born.
From 2002-2009, Home Team Harvest grew from a small street-corner event to the community-wide campaign it is today. The first Saturday of every December, KING 5 and Northwest Harvest set up at locations throughout Puget Sound. In addition the KING 5 Weekend Morning News broadcast is filled with live inserts from each location where KING 5 news anchors and on-air personalities in their yellow jackets collect food and financial donations. With the help of our long-standing partner, U.S. Bank, Home Team Harvest has expanded beyond one day as U.S. Bank branches accept food and cash the entire month of December.
In 2010, Home Team Harvest set an audacious goal to double any previous year’s collection in an attempt to reach the 10 million-meal mark! It was a phenomenal success that exceeded the goal with a final tally of more than 2.7 million meals collected.