Project Refill gets nutritious, familiar food straight to families across the Greater Seattle Area. Students run the food distribution, and we back up the farms and pantries our community already leans on.
34 volunteers · Chinook Farms · January 2026
Numbers from our first year: food drives closed, greenhouse built, community partners locked in.
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69% over goal
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23% over goal
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Project Refill is partnering with Eastlake High School’s National Honor Society to collect food for the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank. All proceeds and collected donations from this drive will go to the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank.
Our first year in action: a greenhouse restored and a food drive completed.
A 4-day fundraiser at Brown Bear Car Wash where we raised $1,842 in cash donations. That money funded Project Refill's entire first year of operations. Students stood outside handing out brochures and talking to community members about food insecurity on the Eastside.
Three Saturdays, 34 volunteers, 174 service hours. We dismantled a storm-damaged greenhouse, relocated the frame, and installed new poly so Food Bank Farm can keep producing fresh food year-round. The restored structure is expected to yield ~30,000 lbs of fresh produce annually starting in 2026.
Our first food drive collected 843 non-perishable items, 69% over our 500-item goal. That's roughly 414 lbs and $4,160 in food value, all donated to the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank.
Built on $6,002 in year-one impact, we are focusing on what worked: expanding our food drives and deepening the community partnerships that make them possible, so we can collect more food and support more families.
We are re-partnering with the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank to expand our food-drive reach city-wide, building on our previous collaboration to collect more food and support more families.
We worked with six organizations in our first year and generated $6,002 in total community impact, including ~$4,200 in food value and $1,842 in direct donations. Now we're building new partnerships to grow that impact month over month.
Partner with usVolunteers power our food drives, help collect and sort donations, and connect us with new community partners. Let us know how you'd like to help.
“We started Project Refill because hunger should never be a barrier to opportunity. When students, farms, and neighbors show up together, hope travels faster than scarcity.”
