Board
John Williams, Board ChairSara Martin, Vice Chair
Mark Mummy, Treasurer
Stan Morgan, Secretary
John Kuehn
Mark Mullet
Bob Eiene
About
The Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank (officially Issaquah Valley Community Services) has been serving our community since 1982.This is our mission:
IVCS provides food and clothing and related services to individuals and families who find themselves in need of basic necessities. We strive to help people remain self-sufficient in their community and to maintain a sense of individual worth and dignity.
History
From the beginning, it’s been about people helping people.
In 1982, a group of compassionate seniors from the Issaquah Valley Senior Center saw that other seniors at the center needed food, so they simply began buying it.
Soon, a program to provide needed food was organized, so successful that it quickly outgrew the Senior Center. With the city’s permission, the program moved to the old School Administration building until 1992.
The clothing bank was started in an old Quonset hut and in portable classrooms at the community center. In the late 80s when these spaces were no longer available, Evergreen Trailer, a local manufacturer, let the clothing bank use three trailers parked on First Avenue.Seeing the need to bring both banks together, the city bought a large truck repair shop, and the food bank staff wrote community block grant proposals for money to remodel it. The Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank pays the City of Issaquah a dollar a year to use the building.
The Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank is run by a Board of Directors.
Staff
Cherie Meier, Executive Director
Kim Ortego, Assistant to Executive Director
Email Cherie and Kim at: issaquahfood@aol.com
