Hopelink’s End Summer Hunger program selected as Groupon “G-Team” campaign

Beginning today, Hopelink is teaming up with Groupon to raise funds for End Summer Hunger through the online company’s website. Groupon is an international company that offers one major deal every day for local restaurants, goods and services, with discounts of 50 percent or more. “G-Team” is Groupon’s charitable wing, where they help nonprofits and others raise money for their causes. 

Hopelink’s End Summer Hunger was selected as the featured Seattle-area campaign for August 2-4, enabling subscribers to make a one-time, one-click $13 donation to Hopelink through the Groupon website. The $13 donation will pay for two weeks worth of food for a child on summer break.

Mother and son at food bank.  Photo courtesy Hopelink.

End Summer Hunger is Hopelink’s annual grassroots campaign aimed at ensuring that school kids have enough to eat during the summer months. The fund and food drives – running through August – bring together local businesses, organizations, schools and individuals to help provide low-income families with food for kids who receive free and reduced-fee breakfasts and lunches during the school year.

The campaign takes on the gap in regular nutritious daytime meals for kids who are on summer break, while also addressing increasing demand at Hopelink’s five emergency service centers while the school programs are on hiatus. The proceeds from End Summer Hunger will stock the food banks for the high-demand summer months.

Launched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in 43 countries. The company has about 7,000 employees working across the Chicago headquarters, a growing office in Palo Alto, CA, local markets throughout North America and regional offices in Europe, Latin America, Asia and around the world. The company has more than 50 million subscribers in the United States and recently filed a $750 million IPO.

Donate to the Groupon End Summer Hunger campaign

Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in north and east King County by promoting self-sufficiency for all members of our community and helping people make lasting change. Hopelink assists people with meeting their needs for food, shelter, homelessness prevention, family development and stabilization, transportation and adult literacy skills.