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In all the hustle and bustle, we know it’s important to you to give back during the holiday season and reflect on community.
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- Apr 5, 2019
Eric Aft: Does It Matter What Food We Provide?
It wasn’t that long ago that hunger was generally perceived in a vacuum. But today, food insecurity is being seen as a health problem...
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- Sep 10, 2018
Prepared: Second Harvest and Disaster Response
***Update: 10/10/18*** Several of our Second Harvest Food Bank team members will be spending time in the eastern part of the state to...
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- Nov 28, 2017
Holiday Food Drives
To say they can set up this tent in the dark is not an analogy: it is literally what food bankers Joe Kilar and Michael Berry do with...
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- Nov 11, 2017
“Tell me how far you can stretch that?” Veteran and Poet Lavinia Jackson Asks the Hard Q
This Veterans Day, we are each thinking of the veterans who have given so much to our great state and great nation. Unfortunately, too...
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- Nov 10, 2017
Good Neighbors: Food Lion Feeds Lifts Our Network
It’s the type of community where you might well be told to “Turn by the oak tree up by the old Harris’ farm” by way of directions. Shady...
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- Nov 9, 2017
Thankful.
Last Thanksgiving, Crystal figured out how to cook turkey in a crockpot. The 300 square feet of their motel room was filled with the...
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- Oct 27, 2017
Strengthening Families and Communities: FNS Outreach at Second Harvest
In Watauga County, a young couple is homeless, unemployed and raising a two month old infant. They were living in the woods prior to...
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- Oct 18, 2017
We are here to learn from each other (and eat).
Ana Atwater stands in the doorway of Hinshaw United Methodist Church in Greensboro, propping the door with her foot. She warmly greets...
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- Oct 12, 2017
Second Harvest Opened 35 Years Ago (and we have been feeding community ever since)
133 billion pounds of food is wasted every year, yet 42 million Americans do not get enough nutritious food to eat to lead healthy,...
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- Oct 4, 2017
Action Alert: US House Budget Vote
On July 19, 2017, the US House Budget Committee passed its FY2018 budget resolution. The House will be voting on this resolution this...
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- Sep 26, 2017
The Outcomes Are Clear: Advocating for TEFAP and SNAP
“Their doors would close.” This is what Susan Cox said would happen to hundreds of food assistance programs if TEFAP (The Emergency Food...
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- Sep 26, 2017
We Couldn’t Do It Without Our Volunteers
This past week we celebrated our volunteers at Second Harvest’s Annual Volunteer Dinner. And it got us thinking about everything...
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- Sep 7, 2017
There’s a Heart in the Center of this Place: Volunteering at Second Harvest
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- Sep 1, 2017
5 Things You Might Not Know About Second Harvest Food Bank
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- Sep 1, 2017
Hunger Action Month: 3 Ways to Get Involved
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- Aug 30, 2017
Schools See It Every Day: Childhood Hunger and the Impact on Education
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- Aug 29, 2017
Second Harvest Welcomes Eric Aft as Chief Operating Officer
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- Aug 11, 2017
Better Boys & Brandywines: Second Harvest Partners with a Stokes County Farmers’ Market t
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- Aug 8, 2017
From Albermarle to Zebulon: North Carolina Farmers Markets Accept SNAP Benefits.
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