Any child or teen in North Kitsap School District. Food4Kids is an inclusive model - while most participants are referred by school counselors and community partners, we do not ask any income verification, demographics or provide any qualifications. If your family needs meal support, we want to accommodate you!

You can ask your child’s school counselor for a form, or fill out an online form here.

We provide a variety of shelf-stable groceries and fresh produce each week — enough for breakfast, lunch and snacks for one child.

We prioritize kid-friendly choices, easy-to-prepare and low sugar options.

A typical weeks delivery could include:

Non-perishable groceries such as shelf-stable milk, soup, fruit cups, granola bars, 100% juice, easy-mac, bread, trail mix, applesauce, condiments, oatmeal, canned chicken and/or tuna, jam, nut butter, pasta.

Fresh produce such as apples, oranges, carrots, celery, bananas, berries, grapes

While we’re working toward accommodating food allergies and sensitivities through customizing boxes, at this time we can’t take specific requests. For families or children with allergies or sensitivities, we can offer a produce-only delivery option!

Please fill out our form here, and indicate whether you’d like to pack or deliver. Our packing and delivery hours are typically during the day during school breaks, and children are encouraged to participate as packers too!

If you’re interested in being a delivery driver, you will need to pass a background check and have access to a car with trunk space.

Depending on the school calendar, between 11 and 13 — 2 weeks for Winter, 1 week for Spring and 8-10 weeks for Summer, depending on the school calendar.

Food4Kids is our most expensive program to run — we annually budget between $50,000 - $60,000 for program related expenses, 95% of which are food.

Other nominal expenses include delivery bags and printed materials. We’re able to keep program expenses low because of the generosity of our volunteers: our current packing and storage space is graciously donated by a community member, and volunteers cover the cost of gas for delivering the meals to each home.

Each year, we submit numerous grants to foundations, public funding and local businesses for larger amounts of support, but we couldn’t run this program without our individual monthly and one time donors. $60 supplies one child with enough food for a week, $600 for an entire year. Can you pitch in to help us keep this important community resource going? Please donate now.

Typically we pay retail prices for our food, which is our main program expense. We purchase our produce through Safeway and our nonperishable from WinCo with supplemental shopping at other retailers when necessary.

We’ve increased our commitments to sustainability in recent years by:

• using compostable or reusable bags instead of plastic

• reducing food waste by allocating excess food to families who would benefit from extra groceries or stocking non-perishable items in our Little Free Pantry.

We appreciate you asking and wanting to help out!

If you’re a grocer, we’d love to partner with you! Food costs are 95% of our program budget, and with rising food prices, we want to avoid limiting the number of children and teens served by keeping our program well resourced. Please reach out using the Contact Us button at the bottom of this page if you are a food supplier who is looking to make an in-kind or cash donation.

We are unable to accept food items donated from households for a variety of reasons — for each packing date we order large quantities of specific requests needed to fulfill our well-rounded meal boxes, so smaller household size donations are not easily integrated into our distribution system. We also do not have the storage capacity to accommodate drop offs - we usually do all of our shopping, delivery and packing within 1-2 days for each week we complete meal deliveries.

If you would like to support Food4Kids, please make a financial donation here, or if you have excess food to donate, check out our Little Free Pantry giving guidelines and make your food donation to our free pantry in downtown Kingston!

Our journey over the last decade (plus!) of packing and delivering to North Kitsap students has already evolved so much! As we look toward the future, some of our goals include:

• Continue to provide for every family who requests support by maintaining a financially sustainable program

• Partner with more local farmers, grocers and food suppliers so we can increase food quality and decrease program costs

• Increase food quality by providing nutrient-rich, less processed options, organic whenever possible

• Offer food choices by offering gluten free, vegetarian, kosher and halal when possible

We would love your help in getting us closer to these goals. Please sign up to volunteer and donate today! Thank you ♡