Mission: Possible – Larissa Barrows
“Mission: Possible” focuses on our volunteers, without whom our mission of creating a hunger-free community would be impossible! This month, we spoke with Larissa Barrows, a skilled volunteer in Food [...]
Summer Spotlight: The Big Lift Inspiring Summers Program
Special Blog Post By: Zia MacWilliams, Manager of Federal Children's Nutrition Programs A Big Lift site in San Mateo County The Summer Meals Program, a federally funded initiative providing free, [...]
Book Lover’s Day: Our Staff Recommendations
Book Lover's Day is on August 9! We encourage you to grab or download a good book, then settle down in your favorite reading place. Looking for a good book [...]
Mission: Possible – Hayley
“Mission: Possible” focuses on our volunteers, without whom our mission of creating a hunger-free community would be impossible! Hayley is a Santa Clara University student and one of the amazing [...]
Partner Agency Spotlight: CALL Primrose
This month, we are featuring CALL Primrose, an organization showing a passion for helping their local community, and one that is dependable and always willing to step up when called [...]
Reaching More People Through Client Marketing
Holly Cohen, Second Harvest’s Encore Fellow in Marketing, is leading our efforts in a new endeavor: client marketing. Why has Second Harvest decided to focus on client marketing? Holly: We [...]
Starbucks FoodShare: Hunger Relief in Action
Last Friday, we celebrated the launch of the Starbucks FoodShare program with Feeding America at a packing event at the Downtown San Jose Farmers Market. Starbucks employees volunteered their time [...]
Cindy McCown Leaves a Legacy of Food and Friends
Special post by Caitlin Kerk, Second Harvest supporter and consultant I knew of Cindy McCown long before I ever worked at Second Harvest. She has been the go-to person [...]
Partner Agency Spotlight: Community Services Agency
Community Services Agency (CSA) provides food assistance, emergency financial aid, and homeless and case management services to clients in Mountain View, Los Altos, and Los Altos Hills. Last month, we [...]
Nutrition in Action: Recap of Our Work in Santa Clara County
Our Nutrition Department is always trying to come up with strategies and ideas to encourage clients, not only to take and eat the food that we provide, but to become [...]