Weekend Power Packs

Empower Youth Network is committed to helping students thrive. Weekend Power Packs provide supplemental food to youth in the area who may face food scarcity/insecurity over the weekends. Each pack contains two breakfasts, two lunches, four snacks, and two drinks. This community-based, grass roots effort takes a different format at each school to best meet the needs of the students at that school. On average, we currently distribute 200 packs a week.

There are plenty of ways to support Weekend Power Packs!

Contact Us to Volunteer

Volunteering

If you are interested in volunteering with Empower Youth Network to help pack Weekend Power Packs or to hold a food drive, please reach out to us above with your availability and to get additional information.

Donating

If you prefer to make a tax-deductible donation specifically for Weekend Power Packs, please contact us at the email above or make a donation here.

Group Volunteering

Whether you’re coming from a school, club, sports team, youth group or friend group and are interested in hosting a Power Pack Packing Party, please let us know by contacting us at the email above.

Amazon Wish List

Our numbers are growing steadily, and purchasing items off our Amazon Wish List is so helpful in allowing us to keep up with making sure students do not go hungry.

If you would like to support us in this way, you can purchase directly from our Wish List (click here) or you can buy the food from that list at any other store and drop it off at our office. If you choose to drop it off, email us above, so that we can make sure someone is at the office when you come by.

Items purchased directly from the Amazon List are delivered to the program coordinator, who then brings them to the office.

Additional Food Resources

Food should not have to be another source of stress. Please find a list of help across Snoqualmie Valley below. Please share additional resources with us by contacting the program leadership below.

Click to View List of Snoqualmie Valley Food Resources

School meals pause on the weekends and breaks, but hunger doesn’t. If you rely on SNAP or you need help finding food, please take a look at the resources below.

Empower Youth Network

Weekend Power Packs

TRACE Care Team

Carnation / Duvall

Holy Innocents Catholic Church

Tolt Congregational United Church of Christ

Hopelink Food Bank

Snoqualmie / North Bend

Feed Kiddos

Feed Kiddos Facebook Group

Snoqualmie Valley Food Shopping Hours

More Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank Programs

Trail Youth Coffee Home (free drinks for teens)

WA State-Wide

The Washington State Department of Health’s Fruit and Vegetable Prescription (FV Rx) Program

PROGRAM LEADERSHIP

THROW A PACKING PARTY

Michelle Marshall

Weekend Power Packs Coordinator

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THROW A PACKING PARTY

You can support Weekend Power Packs by packing as a group! You can also purchase & pack items for us with your team, coworkers, book club, church youth group, etc. We will provide a list of items, bags, and bins. This can be done at our location or yours.

Interested? Email powerpacks@empoweryouthnetwork.org

Michelle Marshall

Weekend Power Packs Coordinator

Michelle Marshall is the Empower Youth Network’s Weekend Power Packs Coordinator. Michelle has her B.S. in Elementary Education from Montana State University. After raising her kids, she found herself working at the library, the Duvall Chamber of Commerce, and, most recently, is working for Northwest Art Center. She has a wealth of volunteer experience, working with nonprofits serving youth and families for the past 20 years. She is passionate about caring for others and making our community a better place.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and dogs, hiking, traveling, and reading.

michellemarshall@empoweryouthnetwork.org