Get the entire family involved in giving this season with Reverse Advent Calendar Food Drive!

All across Northwest North Carolina, Second Harvest's partner network is caring for everyone who may need help-- including veterans.

In all the hustle and bustle, we know it’s important to you to give back during the holiday season and reflect on community.

Simple things you and your family can do... before noon.

The New Year is an opportunity to take stock of our lives and of our community. For many of us, we reflect on our habits — good and bad — and make decisions about the ways we want to challenge ourselves in next 12 months. Perhaps we will go to bed earlier, read more books, learn a new language or write more letters. Each personal resolution we make is to help us move more into ourselves; into being the person we know ourselves to be. We can also make community resolutions. W

Every year, we gather for an evening to celebrate our volunteers who give so much to us, so frequently. Second Harvest volunteers engage with our mission in a variety of ways, but the focal point of our volunteers is to make sure that the food we are rescuing or having donated to us is safe and fit to be sent out. This means that our volunteers spend hours inspecting food packaging, labels, and expiration dates and carefully packaging it to be sent out to our partners across

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Nor thousands upon thousands of pounds of food. The 26th Annual Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger drive is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for May 12th! Since 1993, the National Association of Letter Carriers has collected food the second Saturday in May from their customer’s mailboxes and used their person-power and truck-power to get it to

“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve,” said Martin Luther King. At Second Harvest, we get to spend time with some pretty great people… thousands of them, in fact. They are our volunteers. They sort food, inspect eggs, assist with food drives, pack boxes, and give tirelessly and kindly to support our mission. April is National Volunteer Month and it is a great reminder that much of the work that makes our communities stronger and better happens because of people

Second Harvest is fortunate to have many dedicated volunteers that support our mission of moving healthy, nutritious food to the 18 counties of Northwest North Carolina that we serve. Even amongst all these outstanding volunteers, the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices volunteer group really stands out. Berkshire Hathaway has demonstrated their commitment to Second Harvest by participating in our work every step of the way, from collecting food at food drives to helping us sort