Feed Every Need plays a vital role in helping GMUW ensure the health, education and financial stability of all people.

Green Mountain United Way serves Washington, Orange and NEK regions of VT. Our Working Bridges program helps in leading our work to support “the missing middle,” Vermonters working full time and yet still struggling to afford basic needs, like housing and food. 

Feed Every Need’s initiative to provide ready-made meals to low-income families in rural communities is necessary and we enthusiastically endorse their efforts. Our agency has partnered with Feed Every Need since the pandemic, and they have been responsible for stocking our freezer in our Lamoille County office with nutritious ready-to-heat meals for our homeless and food-insecure clients over the past few years. 

Jonathan and Lisa's compassion, expertise and genuine kindness has evolved into Feed Every Need - their new nonprofit to address the very real food insecurity in our area and, someday hopefully, beyond. This iteration of their devotion to providing good food to everyone is keeping all of us afloat to this day. They provide hundreds of meals every week, meals none of us has the resources or ability to provide. We lack both the finances and manpower to prepare full meals ourselves. Like every nonprofit, Feed Every Need is dependent on donations to continue their mission to help insure the nutritional wellbeing of our neighbors. They had the vision to see the need and the talent and absolute devotion to address it.

The FEED EVERY NEED meals have been so much appreciated throughout the winter. With the FEN meals Another Way staff are able to easily provide 20-30 dinners seven evenings a week. The meals arrive Monday through Friday, on a predictable schedule, so that staff is able to heat the meals in time for dinner. The meals are hearty, including protein, vegetable and carbohydrate nutrients. There is a wide variety of meals with interesting ingredients and good flavor. Generally, our guests like the meals and often ask for second helpings and/or extra food to take to the shelter for late night snacks.
-Cindy Gautier, Another Way Food Manager