Start a new Nourishing Network group in your local Community!

The motivation to do this work revolves around wanting to harness all the power in your community, people that want to help fix the issues with basic human needs, like food and housing insecurity, in a powerful and meaningful way.  A lot of great work is being done by all of the various help agencies in a community, but people are still falling through the gaps. Nourishing Networks was designed to weave together the passionate volunteers in your community with service agencies, government agencies, faith communities, neighborhood organizations, resource providers, networking them all together.

Your group networks them all together! You’re at the center of fixing issues in basic human needs insecurities in ways never before possible. You and your group create your own agenda, you self-organize, you make it all happen! The only requirement to be in a Nourishing Network group is the desire to want to help people.

We can help you understand the things that we believe must be present for this type of network to thrive. It’s the “secret sauce” that we’ve developed over the last 12 years of experience, the ingredients that allow for a community to start bringing your community’s people together and taking action to get stuff done! And it works! Currently there are 8 thriving Nourishing Networks groups on Seattle’s Eastside region, with over 2,300 people actively engaged week after week, month after month, year after year.

The Nourishing Networks Consortium, and all of the local community Nourishing Network groups are here to help support you on your way. All the Nourishing Networks support each other and are always networked together to share information, share great ideas, make great connections, build strong relationships, learn what works in ways you never could imagine. You’re never working alone in a Nourishing Networks group. We’re all working together, and that’s what makes this Net Work!

For more “how to” information, please reach out to our “Guardian Ambassador” Tammy Waddell at tammy@nourishingnetworks.net