āHunger is UNACCEPTABLEā
This story was originally published several years ago; however, Joyce Kohfeldt's passion for feeding children and supporting the work of...
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- Nov 11, 2019
āThank you for your service, Corporal.ā
All across Northwest North Carolina, Second Harvest's partner network is caring for everyone who may need help-- including veterans.
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- Jan 30, 2019
Eric Aft: Past Accomplishments and Future Achievements
Over the holidays my wife asked me if Iād be making any New Yearās resolutions. While I think she knew my standard answer (āNo, I donāt...
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- Nov 19, 2018
Go well, Clyde
Friends, It is with deep sadness that we share that Clyde Fitzgerald, Jr., our former CEO, beloved friend, and passionate advocate for...
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- Oct 11, 2018
Second Harvest Food Bank: 36 Years of Feeding Community
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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- Jul 25, 2018
A Message from our New CEO: Eric Aft
Dear Friends and Supporters of Second Harvest, In walking through the doors of Second Harvest, you instantly feel a unique energy. Each...
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- Jun 29, 2018
Farewell, but not goodbye.
Today, Second Harvest Food Bank says goodbye to CEO Clyde Fitzgerald as he packs up his office and heads out our doors toward his...
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- Jan 17, 2018
Snow Days Can Mean Hungry Days
Winter in the South can be cold and muddy. So when the snow falls, blanketing the ground and blessing the tree limbs with fresh white,...
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- Jan 11, 2018
Take the Pledge: Volunteering in the New Year
Volunteers power Second Harvest Food Bank. Itās as simple as that. We could not help provide food and resources to the one in four people...
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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 22, 2017
Bearing witness to the great generosity and kindness of our communities.
They are painting flowers. They are painting their favorite foods. They are painting trees and peace symbols and mandalas and cherry...
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- Nov 15, 2017
Feeding Fresh: Tyson Foods makes a lead gift to help increase Second Harvest produce distribution
Yesterday, the Tyson Foods team traveled all the way from Wilkesboro to Winston-Salem in order to lend a hand to process the donations...
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- Nov 11, 2017
āTell me how far you can stretch that?ā 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 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
Apple Wraps and Healthy Snacks: Cooking Matters for Kids
The squirming feet and wiggling hands always makes it a little unnerving to unload a plastic tub of knives and cutting boards in an...
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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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- Sep 28, 2017
Seeing Waste, Creating Abundance: Community Cupboard Thrives in High Point
Nearly 40% of the food grown in the United States every year is wasted. Thatās a lot of food being thrown into landfills, creating...
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- Sep 26, 2017
The Outcomes Are Clear: Advocating for TEFAP and SNAP
āTheir doors would close.ā This is what Susan Cox said would happen to hundreds of food assistance programs if TEFAP (The Emergency Food...
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