Food For Thought eNewsletter, May 2018, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties

MAY 2018

Stand Up for Kids

We're currently focusing our efforts on raising awareness about childhood hunger and here you can read all about the amazing work going on at schools and colleges, like this distribution at Oak Grove High School in South San Jose.

For the kids

Save CalFresh

Did you know that May is CalFresh Awareness Month? It is! Read a very important blog by Dr. Lisa Chamberlain of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. She breaks down how important the CalFresh program is and why we need to fight to keep it funded through an upcoming Farm Bill!

Find out more

Cream of the Crop

In our new regular column Mission: Possible, we're focusing on volunteering and our volunteers! They make our mission possible! This month you can read all about our recent Junior League nominees in a special post by our Director of Volunteer Services, Diane Zapata!

Read on

Remembering Bill Cilker

Longtime Second Harvest champion Bill Cilker recently passed away. Please take a moment to read some fond memories from two Food Bank staffers around in the early days of Bill's work.

A community leader

Cleverly Fighting Hunger

Anna Koch has been partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank for the last 7 years during the annual Food for Fines program, a community food drive that allows San Mateo County library patrons to clear library fines while providing food to those in need.

Meet Anna

Big Fans of Healthy Eating

We're still raving about our volunteers and in the latest Nutrition in Action column we rave about our Health Ambassadors that work with our Nutrition Department. What are Health Ambassadors?

Find out

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