OSL

"To provide dignity, care and compassion through action with the example that each person can make a difference. To educate and advocate acceptance and understanding of each others differences. To ultimately bring about the realization that we are all a vital part of this world and with extended effort put an end to homelessness, hunger and hatred". Operation: Sack Lunch has been serving the food insecure community in Seattle since 1989. What began as a one day of service project has turned into the preparation and delivery of more than 2.7 million meal to Seattle's most fragile citizens. Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, seven days each week, our ideas on nutritional excellence, at one time considered radical, are now the standard to set the nutritional gage by. Our organization operates on the premise that nutritional excellence is a right we are born to, not a privilege that we earn. We are committed to being a part of the solution to alleviate, and indeed, to end hunger in the community.

OSL is the largest and the only, Health Department compliant, outside congregate meal and basic necessities provider in the State of Washington. We provide nutritional meals and basic life necessities to the homeless children, teens, women and men, who congregate in Seattle. We also provide emergency housing assistance and education assistance. In the greater community we provide pro-active volunteer opportunities and a compelling education presentation for schools, civic and faith based organizations and businesses on poverty, hunger, homelessness, community service, and discrimination awareness.