The North East Tacoma Healthy Kids Coalition supports students and their families in NE Tacoma by consistently meeting basic needs to strengthen our community and set students up for success.

The NET Healthy Kids Coalition begins collecting hygiene items

Based on needs identified by local school staff, the Coalition will be collecting and distibuting personal hygiene items to our local schools.  We are accepting the following donations at our drop off locations: combs and hairbrushes, deoderant (full size requested), lice kits, pads & maxi pads, soap, shampoo and conditioner (please consider donations for diverse hair types to meet the needs of all of our students), toothbrushes and toothpaste.  Thanks for your support!

Donate your time

Volunteers are critical to our success!  Volunteers are needed to help pack weekend meals, deliver food to local schools, organize and sort food donations, and more.  Check back regularly for volunteer updates or sign up to receive our newsletter to stay informed of volunteer opportunities.  We are currently serving 169 students per week and pack a total of 676 bags for a four week month and 845 bags for a 5 week month.  This is a huge efffort and we love our volunteers who help us meet the needs of local students.

Make a financial contribution

Don't have time to shop for food?  Make a financial donation and we will use the funds to buy inventory needed to pack food each month.  Checks can be made out to any of the local PTAs, dropped off at school, with a memo on the check designating the donation for the NE Tacoma Healthy Kids Coalition.  Your donation is tax-deductible!

Drop food off at any participating school in the bin in the lobby!

In order to maintain equity in the food packs and ease of inventory and packaging, please only purchase items from the list below:

• Kraft Mac & Cheese Easy Mac Cups

• Chef Boyardee Ravioli Cups

• Hamburger Helper Microwave Singles Cups

• Cup O Noodles

• Oatmeal Packets (Individual servings)

• Juice Boxes 

• Pudding cups

• Applesauce pouches

• Fruit Snacks

• Fig bars (Individual Serving)

• Granola Bars

• Crackers (Individual Servings)

• Pringles (Individual Servings)

• Rice Krispy Treats

• Small Boxes of Cereal (Individual Serving size)

• Tuna and crackers (individual Servings)

• Cookies (Individual Servings)            

• Or send food donations to us directly via our Amazon Wish List:  

Drop Bin Locations
2019-2020

Food donations can be dropped off at the following locations during regular business hours:

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Browns Point United Methodist Church

Center at Norpoint

Northshore ACE Hardware

Saint Matthew's Church

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Browns Point Elementary

Crescent Heights Elementary

Meeker Middle School

NE Tacoma Elementary

Meeker Community Garden

The Coalition was a proud supporter of the Meeker Community Garden which came to life over the summer of 2019!

Thank you to all the garden volunteers and donors including the following groups:

Boy Scouts Troop 398

Cub Scouts Pack 308

Graduate Tacoma 

Master Gardeners- Jim & Donna Cox, Marilyn Crawford, and Nancy Christiansen

Meeker Garden Club

Meeker  PTA

Northshore Ace Hardware

Seattle Tacoma Box Company

Schnitzer Steel

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And a huge thank you to Meeker teacher Christine Montequin who dreamed of the garden and made it a reality!