Wenatchee Green Bags Program
The Sustained Food Drive

Pick-Up Dates
January 14, 2017
March 11, 2017
​May is Postal Service Food Drive

Simply Fill up a Green Bag
with non-perishable items
and leave it on your door step
​for us to come and pick up


A low commitment way to support your local
North Central Washington Food Distribution Center,
which supplies over 12 food pantries and 5 meal programs in our two counties.

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We are looking towards our community to help diversify the food that is available in our food pantries and help in fighting hunger in our Valley.
Bryce Newberry, a news intern for NCW LIFE magazine, did an in-depth look into the North Central Washington Food Distribution Center and the fight against hunger in the Wenatchee Valley.  Watch it here. 

With Your Help:

Three Simple Steps:

1. Each time you go shopping, buy one extra non-perishable food item.

2. Store it in your reusable bag.

3. On the second Saturday of every other month, a volunteer will pick up the bag, leave another bag in its place, and take the filled bag to a food bank.

It’s that simple! Just buy one extra food item, and we’ll do the rest.
  • We can make it easier for individuals to do their part and share food.               
  • We can help food banks provide more food to those in need in our community and help eliminate hunger in our area.                                           
  • We can strengthen our neighborhoods and community.

There are three ways to help:


Share food

Ask for one of our reusable shopping bags.  We estimate that for every 300 people who participate, we will collect one ton of additional food a month, and it all starts with you!

Invite Your Neighbors

Ask neighbors if they would like to join this program and get a reusable shopping bag.

Help Transport food

Once every two months, on the second      Saturday, help pick up the bags and deliver to our Food Distribution Center.

Dear Neighbor,

In the past few years since the recession hit, the face of hunger is changing.  Food banks are now seeing people who have never had to ask for assistance before come through their lines.  Locally, our food banks have experienced an increase in demand as much as 18%.  One in four children in the Wenatchee area is hungry, as well as one in ten adults.

The North Central Washington Food Distribution Center, run by the Chelan-Douglas CommunityAction Council, distributes food to 12 local area food banks and 5 meal programs.  They distributed over 1.1 million pounds of food last year, but still that is not enough to reach the high demand they’ve been    experiencing.

Is there a way to reach out to your neighbors and help provide a steady supply of food for our food banks?

We think so — with the program you see right in this brochure!

We’ll give you this cool green bag, and all you do is add non-perishable food items.  We’ll pick it up and deliver it to food banks.  This program has been a great success in other Washington communities, as well as in Oregon and California.

Get involved with this simple, yet effective program and contact us today!

Your simple gesture will make a difference.

September or rather #Spoontember is Hunger Action Month and Feeding America is raising awareness for those who face...

Posted by Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council on Tuesday, September 29, 2015