North Helpline provides the community with basic human emergency services to promote dignity, self respect and hope.
Our vision is to improve community food and housing security for the people of Greater North Seattle by promoting, demonstrating, advocating for, and collaboratively building an equitable and regional food and human services system, which ultimately reduces the need for our service.
North Helpline was started in 1989 by a small group of volunteers who noticed that many of their neighbors were not able to pay their rent, cover their utility bills and put food on the table because their paychecks didn’t stretch that far. These friends began collecting food and financial support to distribute to those most in need in their community.
The initial group grew to 600+ volunteers who contribute over 2000 hours of work monthly. They provide critical human services to over 1000 clients each week in an effort to reduce the impact of hunger and poverty in Greater North Seattle.
