FEED NEEDS

10/14/2026

10/14/2026

10/14/2026

🎭 **Drama Club!** 🎭

We’re starting a new youth-led drama club, and you get to help decide what it becomes!

Interested in plays, monologues, spoken word, improv, skits, or something completely different? Bring your ideas and help create a club that’s yours!

📅 Tuesdays at 3:30 PM
📍 The Youth Connection

The name, the activities, and the direction of the club will all be shaped by the youth who attend. Come be part of it!

10/14/2026

📣Apply: Great Basin National Park artist residency. Professional artists will be given the opportunity to explore the Great Basin Region and Great Basin National Park to foster their artistic process and connection with the public. The 2-3 week residency is open to visual artists, literary artists, musicians and other creative activity media artists.

From this call, 3 artists will be selected for 2027 occurring in Winter (housing residence), Summer (a camping only residence), Fall (a camping only residence).

📆Deadline to apply: Oct. 30, 2026
🌎Great Basin National Park, Nevada
👉🏽Learn more: https://www.nps.gov/grba/getinvolved/supportyourpark/current-and-future-artists.htm

ID: Dani Kwan, 2026 Fall Artist in Residence. Kwan sketches purple wildflowers in a notebook while standing in a field surrounded by trees.

Great Basin National Park Foundation National Park Service

10/14/2026

Last call for Annual Award Nominations! 🤩

The Chamber’s annual awards celebrate the businesses, organizations, and individuals who go above and beyond to make Mason County a better place to live and work. Nominations are open for Boss of the Year, Business of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Nonprofit of the Year, and Rookie of the Year.

Nominations close Tuesday, September 30, and we want to hear from you! Who in our community deserves to be recognized this year?

Submit your nomination at https://masonchamber.com/nominate

10/14/2026

❤️ Help FEED NEEDS receive a $3,000 Franz Spirit of Giving grant! Here’s the information you’ll need to nominate us:

🔗 https://franzspiritofgiving.com/

• Organization: FEED NEEDS
• Contact: Adam Maldonado
• Position: Executive Director
• Phone: (206) 458-5044
• Email: [email protected]
• Organization type: Choose the closest category for food assistance/hunger relief.
• Street address: 1871 East Johns Prairie Road
• City: Shelton
• State: Washington
• ZIP: 98584
• Website: https://feed-needs.org
• Tax ID/EIN: 33-1971105

✍️ Reason for nomination: Write 100 words or fewer in your own words about why FEED NEEDS matters to you or our community. You might describe our food distributions, home deliveries, hot meals, or support for youth and families. A specific experience you’ve had or witnessed makes your nomination meaningful!

Under “Your Info,” enter YOUR name, email, phone, mailing address, and birth year, then answer the remaining questions.

✅ You have our permission to nominate FEED NEEDS!
📅 Deadline: November 8, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific.
✅ One nomination per person/email address. Nominators must be 18+ and live in an eligible location—Washington qualifies.

Thank you for helping us continue “Meeting the Needs of the Community Together.” ❤️

10/12/2026

🌲🎓 Shelton High School—get to it!

Seniors, Green Diamond’s 2027 Natural Resource Scholarship is open, with awards of up to $1,000 toward your next chapter!

Planning to study forestry, environmental science, wildlife, skilled trades, engineering, business, or another field connected to natural resources? Check out this opportunity!

📅 Apply by November 30, 2026
📝 Have your transcript, résumé, recommendation letter, and application essays ready.

👉 Details and application: https://www.greendiamond.com/communities/scholarships

Parents, teachers, and counselors—help spread the word. Highclimbers, let’s turn those career goals into action! 💚

FEED NEEDS — Meeting the Needs of the Community Together.

View Green Diamond’s Corporate Website

10/11/2026

🥕 WASTE LESS. FEED MORE. STRENGTHEN OUR COMMUNITY. 💚

At FEED NEEDS, we believe good food belongs on someone’s table. Together, we can prevent food waste, stretch grocery budgets, and help our neighbors in Mason County and beyond.

Small changes make a difference:

🛒 Shop your kitchen first. Check your refrigerator and pantry before buying more.
🥦 Make an “eat first” shelf. Keep foods that need to be used soon where you can see them.
❄️ Freeze before food spoils. Label and date portions for future meals.
🍲 Plan a leftovers night. Give the food you already prepared a place on this week’s menu.
🤝 Share your surplus. Have extra garden produce or food from your business? Contact FEED NEEDS to discuss donation options and safe handling.

Growers, grocers, restaurants, and neighbors—let’s connect good food with people who can use it!

📞 Adam: (206) 458-5044
📧 [email protected]

FEED NEEDS — Meeting the Needs of the Community Together.



Food-saving tips align with EPA guidance.

10/11/2026

Applications for Green Diamond's 2027 Natural Resource Scholarship are officially open! If you're passionate about the outdoors and interested in building a career in forestry, conservation, environmental science, wildlife management, or a related field, we encourage you to apply.

More information and the application link: https://www.greendiamond.com/communities/scholarships