Eight different Redmond Ridge communities are uniting to help feed the hungry with a “Neighbors Helping Neighbors Food Drive” Aug. 23.

Trilogy at Redmond Ridge, a 55-and-older active lifestyle community, is leading the charge to help gather donations for Hopelink’s End Summer Hunger campaign.

Residents at seven other Redmond Ridge housing communities — Reunion at Redmond Ridge Apartments, The Lodge at Redmond Ridge, Redmond Ridge East, Redmond Ridge, Sundance Park, Sundance Glen and Westchester — will also be participating in the massive food drive.

Hopelink is a Redmond-based social services organization that has a number of food banks on the Eastside, including in Redmond and Kirkland.

The goal of the Redmond Ridge food drive is to collect 30,000 pounds of food and deliver the donations to Hopelink food banks in Carnation, Redmond and Kirkland.

On Thursday, Aug. 23, residents can bring their donations to the Redmond Ridge QFC, located at 23475 N.E. Novelty Hill Rd., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition, organizers will be distributing donation cans to local businesses later this week with hopes of raising $10,000 for a children’s milk fund for Hopelink.

Hopelink’s End Summer Hunger campaign brings together local businesses, organizations, schools and individuals to help provide low-income families with food for their children during the summer months when school is not in session.

During school, many of the children from these families are eligible for free or reduced lunches, but those lunches are not offered during the summer months. As a way to help the hungry during the summer, Hopelink created its End Summer Hunger campaign, which last year raised $181,439 along with thousands of pounds of food.

For more information, contact Molly Boll, Hopelink-Trilogy food drive coordinator at (425) 836-4315, or email mollyboll@comcast.net.