i Take The Lead started Lead with Heart, a food basket program, to help bring food around Valentine’s Day to 30 families in need. These families live from the Salem Oregon area all the way to the Ridgefield Washington area. We started this in 2001 as a way to help those who’d been displaced by layoffs, business closures, etc. (We formed a Non-profit foundation in 2007, to enable us to give back even more to the community.)

For 10 years, we have received an overwhelming response from our i Take The Lead Inc members, along with many businesses and individuals in the communities. The members step up and donate food, money, other essential items for families in need. They even volunteer to go to local grocery stores with a letter, provided by the officers of i Take The Lead, to solicit donations. Several stores have been very generous in their gifting to these families. For tax purposes/administrative purposes, we keep this separate from the Non-profit, so 100% of all proceeds go to the Families in Need.

Several of us met on February 19th at 9 AM at:

Impact Signs, 23602 NW Clara Ln.  Hillsboro, OR 97124  (Thanks to Sandi Proctor)

We all boxed a bunch of food for 26  families in need.