“Hunger is UNACCEPTABLE”
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 21, 2019
Reverse Advent Calendar Food Drive: A full season of giving
Get the entire family involved in giving this season with Reverse Advent Calendar Food Drive!
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- Nov 11, 2019
“Thank you for your service, Corporal.”
All across Northwest North Carolina, Second Harvest's partner network is caring for everyone who may need help-- including veterans.
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- Nov 1, 2019
5 Ways to Give Back this Holiday
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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- Oct 23, 2019
5 Myths About Hunger in Northwest North Carolina
Hunger doesn't always look like what you think, and often flies under the radar.
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- May 23, 2019
Hunger and Health: Making the Connection
Second Harvest and WXII News 12 recently held a town hall at the Hanes Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem. At Hunger and Health: Making...
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- May 1, 2019
Mapping the Meal Gap in Northwest North Carolina
Child food insecurity rates across Northwest North Carolina are higher than the overall food insecurity rates. That’s the major...
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- Dec 20, 2017
Year in Review: Feeding Futures
“I hope you tell all the other kids about it.” That’s what a young boy said to the volunteers at the food pantry located in his school....
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- Dec 15, 2017
Feeding the Carolinas, Together.
Across the Carolinas, there are 2.6 million people living in poverty. 2.6 million people. Early in the morning, a convoy of ten tractor...
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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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- 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 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 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. That’s 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
“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 14, 2017
School Pantries and Fresh Veggies, Snacks and Backpacks: Solutions for Davidson County
“Bye Trenton! See ya’ Myra!” Liberty Drive Elementary School’s halls are buzzing with excitement as the bell rings and another school day...
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