Community in Crisis: Second
Harvest’s Role During the Pandemic
Annual Report 2020-2021
Footage courtesy of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (2020)
The Need Continued
Everyone experienced the dramatic and often devastating effects of the pandemic in 2020, but many of our clients also faced increased food insecurity in 2021. Our community stepped up in a big way and helped us rapidly transform our operations to meet the additional need.
We are grateful for our network of supporters who helped make it possible for us to provide food to anyone who needed it.
For low-income households, it takes a long time to recover once you’ve wiped out your savings and you’re behind on your bills. That’s why we don’t expect to see need drop to what it was pre-pandemic.
Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Stats
Our Partners
We are at the center of the charitable food distribution system in Silicon Valley, supplying fresh food through over 300 partners at more than 900 sites across Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. We are grateful for our partners – we could not do this work without them.
Facing a Long Road to Recovery
Low-wage workers were hit the hardest by pandemic job and income losses and are experiencing the slowest recovery. Because food budgets are flexible, they are often the first thing to go when finances are tight. Second Harvest ensured that our clients didn’t have to make the heart-wrenching choice between nutritious food or other necessities during the last year.
Client Stories
Pandemic Pressures for a Single Mom
Susan was working part-time while also juggling her coursework for nursing school when the pandemic hit and she lost her job. She shares a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose with her mother, her stepfather and her two kids. Knowing the challenges her family was facing, Susan’s mom decided to attend a free grocery distribution for the first time in November 2020. The family was amazed by the amount of food it received from Second Harvest.
“Well, when my mom got the food and got home, we were looking at each other. And then my mom hugged me. And she was like, ‘We are so blessed that we are able to have food and this amount of food.’”
A Senior with Creativity in the Kitchen
As a senior in the high-risk category, Nhon worried about taking the bus to get his food after the pandemic hit. Luckily, his former ESL classmate offered to drive him to a distribution site. Now, he walks to a site closer to his house in San Jose. Nhon and his wife get creative in the kitchen and come up with Vietnamese dishes to cook and eat every day, all made from the food from our boxes.
“There were several food items that I was not too familiar with, like cheese, celery and tortillas. My wife tried mixing tuna, chicken and carrots, and then she rolled it up with the tortilla and made a new version of Vietnamese egg rolls, which was delicious.” -Nhon
A Successful Emergency Home Delivery
When we met Vanessa, she was trying to make the best of a challenging situation: she was barely able to pay half of her rent that month. Then, a few weeks later, she and her son both tested positive for COVID-19. She got in contact with Second Harvest’s Food Connection Hotline and was signed up for emergency home delivery. The very next day, she had three boxes of food at her doorstep.
Vanessa said, “I couldn’t believe how fast I got my food.”
The Drive to Volunteer as a Client
Maria began getting food from her local food distribution site prior to the pandemic. After shelter in place was in effect, she noticed the line moved very slowly because there were not enough volunteers to help distribute the food. That’s when Maria decided to volunteer. Then in November 2020 Maria and her entire family contracted COVID-19 and they lost all of their savings while her husband was sick and not working. That’s why the food they receive from Second Harvest has been so crucial.
“I see people so happy and I feel so happy that I’m being useful and helping people get their food.” -Maria
Food Connection Hotline Connecting Those in Need
There were people in the community who needed our help even before the pandemic began, but who did not seek it out due to stigma. Many of those same people found themselves accessing our services for the first time when they were pushed past their financial brink due to COVID. Last year our multilingual Food Connection Hotline team worked tirelessly to answer calls from new and existing clients in need of food assistance, providing referrals to food programs and giving our clients the reassurance they needed to feel comfortable asking for help.
Food Connection Stories
Kelly Chew - Her Team Can Give Help in Six Languages
Kelly’s upbringing in Hong Kong and San Jose and her background in clinical nutrition and social work makes her uniquely poised to connect to the multilingual immigrant families seeking food and services at Second Harvest. Kelly leads the Food Connection Hotline team and is helping clients get the food resources they need.
“I’m really proud of what we’re doing here. On our team, we have Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Cantonese and Mandarin speakers and we work with a language support line run by a third party so we can connect someone to food assistance in their native language.”
True Nguyen - Remembering Calls From Our Seniors
“I talked to a senior, and she was getting our home delivery. And then she called us back and she said, ‘Oh, I loved everything in the boxes you guys gave me. Thank you so much for sending all the things that I needed.”
Will Gutierrez - A Lifeline During Unimaginable Loss
“This lady called the hotline. She was trying to apply for CalFresh, and I helped her out. But the sensitive part of the story was that last year, her husband, her mother and her mother-in-law passed away due to COVID. So, she’s now alone with four kids, and it was really, really hard for me to keep it together on the call. I helped her apply for CalFresh. I gave her some referrals for Second Harvest (food distributions), and then I gave her the number for other types of help. I was just really happy that I was able to do something for her and her family.”
Volunteers Made Our Work Possible
We relied on volunteers to show up week after week at our facilities, as well as our grocery distribution sites across our two counties, to make our operations run smoothly.
Universal School Meals
Starting in the 2022-2023 school year, California will invest $650M annually to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students, impacting more than 247,000 students in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties each year. Second Harvest advocated alongside partners for the state bill creating the universal school meals program and co-sponsored a previous version of the bill in 2020 that inspired this historic investment. We are continuing to advocate at the federal level for all children in the U.S. to receive free school meals.
“Free universal school meals in my district will help with bullying. Everybody will be on equal footing. Universal school meals will [also] help curb food insecurity for our students. At one of our sites, we’re providing that student’s only meal of the day.
Even though their kids need the food, parents have been afraid to sign up through the school meals application because they’re afraid they will be denied citizenship. Having universal school meals eliminates the need for an application, and it eliminates the fear. Universal school meals is the best thing that I’ve seen in 52 years of being in food service.”
Every Virtual Drive Makes a Difference
Due to pandemic-related safety concerns, we stopped accepting community food donations, including food collected through food drives. But our community was still eager to help.
To keep our supporters connected to our work, we launched a new peer-to-peer fundraising platform for hosting virtual food drives. This new tool allowed supporters to raise funds rather than collect food on our behalf.
More than 1,000 individuals, businesses, schools, churches and other organizations started virtual food drives to fundraise for Second Harvest. In addition to hosting virtual drives, people chose to support Second Harvest by asking family and friends to donate money to a drive in lieu of giving them a gift for their birthday, graduation or wedding. Others honored a loved one by starting a virtual food drive in their memory.
Caylee Makes a Difference
When Caylee was turning five, she decided to host a virtual food drive and asked her family and classmates to donate to Second Harvest instead of giving her gifts, raising over $3,000 — enough to provide food for 6,000 meals!
Caylee was inspired to host her virtual food drive when she learned that more than 500,000 people relied on the food bank every month to receive the groceries they need. She would pray every night that no children, young and old, go to sleep hungry.
Caylee is so happy that more families now have access to the most basic need: food. This was such a rewarding experience for Caylee, and we hope it will inspire others.
Mitch Thurston
Mitch Thurston was a longtime passionate supporter of Second Harvest, leading turkey drives for 10 years before pivoting to fundraising. His biggest fundraiser succeeded in raising $56,000 for Second Harvest. Mitch passed away in 2020 and his daughters chose to honor his life and legacy by starting a virtual food drive in his memory.
For years our dad set an example of giving back to our community by raising thousands of dollars with friends, family and colleagues to donate to Second Harvest each holiday season. We can't think of a better way to honor his legacy than to revive his fundraising food drive during this year of incredible need.
Linda wanted her 11-year-old son, Evan, to understand the true meaning of service. In 2020, they started a virtual food drive and passed along the link to Evan’s neighborhood friends and family members.
They all appreciated being asked to contribute. I think a lot of people were feeling so helpless about the pandemic and were very happy to have a tangible way to help their local community through Evan’s ask.
Instead of hosting their annual holiday food drive, the Valley Transit Authority hosted its first virtual food drive, raising more than $20,000 to help neighbors across Silicon Valley. VTA’s drive helped provide enough food for more than 43,000 meals, quadruple the amount of food it collected in barrels in 2019.
We didn’t know what to expect, but once everyone understood the process to donate, it took off! We didn’t know what to expect.
The Sikh Cub Scout Pack, ages 5 to 10, pledged to ride their bicycles two miles for every $10 they received in donations. They raised more than $6,000 and biked 1,350 miles.
These scouts have seen how their lives have been impacted by COVID-19 and they didn’t want anyone in the Bay Area to struggle with hunger.
Thank You to Our Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Major Supporters!
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Gino Addiego
Anne Wojcicki Foundation
Aneel and Allison Bhusri
Billings Living Trust
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
William and Tammy Crown *
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Ann and John Doerr *
John and Eileen Donahoe *
Feeding America
Bill and Amy Gurley
Reid Hoffman Foundation *
Erin Hoffmann and Michael Schroepfer
Khosla Family *
Ben and Gladys Rizzi
Jeff and Marieke Rothschild
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Safeway Foundation
Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal *
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James and June Diller
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John and Ellen Drew *
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Christine Goralnik and Kevin Spain
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Eli and Britt Harari
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Hopper Dean Family Fund
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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Ameesh P. and Supriya A. Oza
Natalie Pageler, M.D. and Thomas Pageler
Rajat and Laura Paharia
Pando Fund
Joe and Frances Pao
John Parissenti and Linda Yufong Chin
So Yong Park and Brian Byun
Mark and Diane Parnes
Leslie and Lynn Pasahow
Therese Pasquesi and Niels Provos
David Pasta
Amit and Vicky Patel
Ilesh and Grishma Patel
Pankaj Patel
Mr. James L. Patterson
Paul Family Survivor’s Trust
Chien-Hsiung and Yuchuan C. Peng
Gillian Peoples
Drew Perkins
Allen Perris
Elizabeth Peters and Jon Sakoda
Joe Petersack and Joanne Kanow
William and Diane Piedemonte
Michael and Mary Ann Pietro
Scott Pine
Steve and Kathy Polzin
Heather and Brian Porter
Norma Quickert
Matthew and April Quilter
Paul and Lee Quintana
Saba Qureshi
Gary and Arline Radine
Raghuram Family Fund
Raitz Giving Fund
RAMP Foundation
Randie Lynn Baruh
Research Foundation
Sylvia F. Rathbun
Peter and Kate Rathmann
Gordon R. Ray, M.D.
Raymond Hunt
Charitable Fund
Christopher and Mikel Re
Lisa and David Renner
Paul Resch and Nancy Coleman
Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation
Richard and Virginia Strock Family Fund
R. Henry and Jean Richards
Hayden Ridenour and Bala Subramanian
Cecilia Rinard
Zack and Orli Rinat
Gerald and Jenny Risk
Robert Family Foundation
Alexander P. Robertson
Ernest Arthur Robertson
William S. Robinson, Jr.
Rod Bagg Charitable Fund
Keith E. Rogers and Harumi Hatada
William and Hilary Roman
David and Elizabeth Rome
Katie and Preston Roper
Rhonda Rosales and Jeffrey Hirschman
Susan S. Rosenberg
Jeff and Mary Rosenberger
Frank Rosenblum
Dan and Linda Rosensweig
Ronald and Dolores Roseveare
Christine L. Ross and Robert S. Tuber
Robert Roston
Rotary Club of San Jose
Rotary Club of San Mateo
Gaye Russell-Bruce and Donald Bruce
Jane and Jonathan Rytina
Antonio and Elizabeth Sabado
John Sabella
JoAnne M. Sabo
Chris and Anna Saccheri
Anshul and Anshu Sadana
Richard Saller, Ph.D.
San Bruno Community Foundation
San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association
Philip Sanfilippo
Richard and Debra Sanzi
Anthony and Gwendy Scampavia
Michael and Katherine Scandling
Benjamin Schafer
Denise and Ray Scheaffer
William and Marilee Schroeder
Oliver and Sabine Schusser
Jodi Marie Schwartz and Robert Hawk
Alan and Judith Schwettman
Michael and Vanessa Sciacchetano
Eric and Caroline Sekercan
Sequoia Consulting Group
Abigail and David Setti
Shoma and Prasad Setty
Sharon Severns
Woody and Denise Shackleton
Bob Shaw and Maureen McLaughlin
Mike W. Sherwood
Samson and Reva Shilmover
Bill and Joanne Sholes
Greg and Susan Sickal
Paul and Kathleen Sidenblad
Jeff and Naomi Silk
Laird and Dawn Simons
Roma and Ron Simpson
SKB Foundation
Frank and Brenda Slootman
Benjamin Smith and Honor Hsin
Isiah and Christine Smith
Todd and Sandy Smith
Carol Smythe
Michael and Maria Solomon
Pravin Soni and Amy Wurtzburger
Michelle and David Southwick
Soren Spies and Xinh Huynh
Suzanne Spitz
Andrew and Heather Steingruebl
John Stephenson
Tom and Nancy Stevens
Duane and Ann Stevenson
Albert and Anne Stewart
Ann and Joe Stockwell
Gregory and Christina Stovall
Randall and Ellen Stross
Eli Sugarman and Aparna Sridhar
Emily Sun
John and Dee Suppes
Patricia Suppes
Daniel and Karen Swanson
Thomas H. and Brooks G. Szolyga
Srinivas Tallapragada and Sreevalli Doddasomayajula
Donald and Sandra Tamm
Oliver Tavakoli and Jo Anne Harriman
Ahmed Tawashi
Jeff and Barbara Taylor
William and Janice Terry
The Burt and Barbara Foundation
The Byrd Family
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Coolest Thing We Could Fund
The Donahue-Poon Family Fund
The Helen and Jack McCullough Family Foundation
The Kelleher Family Fund
The Lee 2014 Revocable Trust
The McJannet Family Fund
The McMurtry Family Foundation
The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, Inc.
The Schmitz-Fromherz Family Fund
The Scott Foundation
The W.F. and Marie A. Batton Foundation
William D. Smythe Family Foundation
The Yael and Itamar Simonson Fund
Jeffrey and Catherine Thermond
Andrea and Joe Thomas
Melinda Thomas
Robert and Michelle Thomas
Amy and Andrew Thornborrow
Charles and Andrea Thurber
Tock Family
Timothy and Sally Tomlinson
Andrew and Stephanie Towell
Mark Tracy
Thad and Kathleen Trent
Diane Trombetta
Benjamin Trumbull
Ariel and Anna Tseitlin
Amy Tucker and Tara Vanderveer
Michael W. Greenfield and Elaine W. Uang
Raziel, Hava and Max Ungar
United Methodist Women
Irene Urbanek-Ruiz and Pedro J. Ruiz
Randall Vagelos and Julie Anne Wissink
Gary and Janice Valenzuela
Hal and Carol Varian
Darrell C. Vogt
Mark von Zastrow
Ami Vora
Wadhwani Charitable Foundation
Carl and Gabrielle Wakeland
Bob and Gail Walker
Walmart Foundation
Catherine Warrick and Joseph Buttle
Margaret Warton and Steve Benting
Nick and Sarah Washburn
Susan Wasson
Greg and Carolyn Waters
Stanley Watt
Daniel Weaver and Katie Goetz
Mark and Cynthia Weeks
David and Twyla Weinberg
Ollie Mae Welch
Kristin Welter
Ann Wengert
Tom and Suzanne Werner
John and Judith R. West
Western Alliance Community Foundation
Carolee White
William and Sarah White
Jim S. and Rosalia Whitehead
William H. Cilker Family Foundation
Margaret Williams
Susan Schmitt Winchester
Patrick Windham and Arati Prabhakar
Duncan and Tanya Winn
Bruce Winterhof
Lotus Wong
Jon and Tiffany Woodruff
Jane Woodward
Lichun Yang
Warren Yang and Jung Yoon
John L. Yee
Youk’s Kids
Bill and Jennifer Youstra
David Yuan and Grace Yang Yuan
John Zappettini
Carolyn and Jeffrey Zeisler
Zhao Family Fund
*Denotes For the Kids Council Member
Thank You to Members of the Second Harvest Legacy Society
One donor’s legacy: from her escape to her lasting impact of hope
My mother, Marie Donner, passed away on September 17, 2020. As a very young child, she barely escaped perishing in the Holocaust, having been rescued and placed on a Kindertransport to London. During that time in her life, she suffered from not only the terrors of Nazism and the bombing of London, but also hunger and starvation. She never forgot the generous few who gave her food when she was starving and cared enough about others to share what little they had with those who had even less.
It was her wish to leave some part of her estate to your food bank, to help others who face hunger and food insecurity. On behalf of my mother and on my own accord, I would like to thank you personally for all that you do to assist others who are hungry. I hope and it was her hope that this token of her appreciation and regard can do something for those you serve, to make some people’s lives better and to offer the hope of a better time, as was done for her.
Sincerely yours,
Michael B. Donner
Trustee, Marie Donner RVOC-TR
Marie Donner was Jewish and grew up in Linz, Austria in the 1930s. At eight years old, Marie escaped severe food rations, attacks on Jews and Kristallnacht through the Kindertransport to London.
My mother loved to eat. My brother and I both learned how to cook from our mother. She really liked to go to places that served really big portions. She liked the idea of taking the leftovers home and freezing them. I think that’s the holdover of the trauma of starvation.
Michael Donner, Marie’s son
Legacy Society Members
Anonymous (30)
Carla Ada Trust
Anthony M Alioto *
Richard Andrews
Jane Anderson and Tess Ayers
Archer Family Foundation
David & Donna Arnold
Fred J. Bedard
Norm Taffe and Julie Bennett
Billings Living Trust *
Kenneth Bigler
Carol D. Blackman *
Jeffery Johns and Bonita Lane
Eva K. Breyer *
Robert and Nancy Bridge
William and Donna Burke
Richard L. Bush
John Carver
Lauretta Cappiello *
Pia Chamberlain and Ruth Saldivar
Mei M. Chen
Robert H Cheney *
Michael G. Chow
James (Jim) Chu *
Anne and Terry Clark
Diana Davey
Dana L. Dickinson
Diane Diggins
Dr. and Dr. Dimery
Hrishikesh Divate
Patricia Dolan
Gene and Cindy Domecus
Marie Donner *
Drekmeier Family Trust *
John U. Dunse *
E & L Charitable Giving
Marilyn Edelstein
Edwin M. Kinderman Trust *
Natalie Elefant
Fan Lisa Feng
Kevin and Celeste Ford
Bob and Ronda Fraser
Jeffrey and Julia Gallinat
Allen A. Ginsling & Rachael Goldstein Trust
Stella B. Gross *
Eloise Harris
Lauren Hailey
Marisue Hansen
David and Sharon Hoyt
Sara Hojjat
Michael Horn *
Gary Isoardi
Barbara Jones Memorial Fund *
Larry and Patricia Jones
Gregory and Barbara Jones
Janine Kovac
Greg M. Krodel
Elsie A. Landseth *
Frank L. Lanza *
Cate Levings
Jack and Carolyn Lewis
Adriana Leyva
Betty Lin*
Valentina M. Lombardi
Matt and Rebecca Lowell
Lynn and Joe Pinto Family Foundation
Jacob and Andrea Malae
Edward Mocarski and Christine Martens
Ruth Martinez
Kevin M. McCoy
Dawn McDaniel
Sarah McGregor
Diane E. Moore
Anthony J. and
Jeanne E. Muzzicato *
James Neupert
Ruth Nilmeier
Debbie Norton
Norris Family Charitable Fund
R.H. O’Grady
Agnes Paccagnini *
Tisa M. Pedersen
Pei K. Peng
Allen H Perris *
Patience Putnam
Indrani Samarawickrama
Clare Sinanian
Claro and Editha Soberano *
Teresa L. Spalding
Katie Stivers
George J. Sullivan *
Garry and Suzanne Lim
The Jossi Family Trust
Mary Sue & Dan Thomas
Tiede Family Trust
Onnolee and Orlin Trapp
Catherina J Ude *
Steve and Tammy Ursenbach
Thomas and Amanda Warner
Wayne P. Westerman Trust *
Cynthia Williams
Patricia F. Winter
* Deceased
Thank You to Our Outstanding Corporate Supporters!
2020-2021 Revenue and Expenses
Pre-COVID, only 5% of our funding came from government sources. Pandemic-related funding increased that percentage, however most of our funding still came from private sources. We anticipate significantly less government funding in the future.
Annual Funding Sources
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65% Individual
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14% Corporations
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12% Government
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9% Foundations & Organizations
Revenue
| Individual Donors | $82,533,767 |
| Corporations | $17,988,615 |
| Government Funding | $15,620,076 |
| Foundations | $9,367,974 |
| Organizations | $1,974,809 |
| Subtotal | $127,485,241 |
| Donated food and in-kind contributions | $192,104,175 |
| Total Operating Revenue* | $319,589,416 |
| Board Designated Endowment Fund | $4,927,207 |
| Investment Gains/Losses | $10,955,514 |
| Others (Accounting & Related Revenue) | $155,631 |
| Total Non-Operating Revenue | $16,038,352 |
| Total Revenue | $335,627,768 |
Annual Operating Expenses
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95% Programs/Food Distribution
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3% Fundraising
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2% Management
Expenses
| Programs/Food Distribution | $264,987,582 |
| Fundraising | $6,868,457 |
| Management | $6,671,583 |
| Total Operating Expenses | $278,527,622 |
Net Assets
| Net Assets* | $181,458,056 |
2020-2021 Board of Directors
Merry Ayres
Senior Manager, Strategy and Programs, Coupa
David Babulak
Managing Director, Strongpoint Holdings
Leslie Bacho
CEO, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
Brian Birtwistle
Chief Product Officer, Indigo Ag
Pastor Paul Bains
President and Co-founder, Project WeHOPE
Susan Blanco
Managing Partner, Capital Clarity
Mark Chandler
Chief Legal Officer, Cisco (Retired)
Chris Cook
Volunteer and Philanthropist
Ellen Drew
Volunteer and Philanthropist
Erin Hoffmann
Technologist and Philanthropist
Josh Kahn
Vice President and General Manager,
Platform Business Unit, ServiceNow
Colleen McCreary
Chief People Officer, Places & Publicity Officer,
Credit Karma
Venk Nathamuni
Vice President, Corporate Finance, Arista Networks
Richard Svec
Senior Vice President, Construction Services Group, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.