Second Harvest’s 2017 Best Nine
As this year comes to a close, we went through a fun exercise of figuring out our nine most memorable stories and events. Without further ado, here's our 2017 Best [...]
Grocery Rescue Spotlight- Target Power Outage
Last week the Food Bank rescued 6,294 pounds of perishable food from a Target store in San Jose that experienced a power outage. Due to our Grocery Rescue relationship with [...]
Mansoor’s Story: Hope Over Adversity
In the United States, seniors are the fastest growing food-insecure population. Currently, 1 in 12 seniors face hunger. Over the next decade, the number of seniors struggling with hunger is [...]
Meet Our New CEO- Leslie Bacho
We sat down with Leslie Bacho, new CEO at Second Harvest, to learn more about her background, leadership style and thoughts about food-banking. She brings a wealth of food-banking [...]
Young San Jose Family Looks Towards Brighter Future
Being a young family in Silicon Valley is not without its difficulties and many young families have a hard time making ends meet as they work to build a brighter [...]
Fighting Hunger at San Jose State University
With 91,000 public college students (community and four-year/public schools) in Silicon Valley, hunger on college campus is a real problem in our community. A 2015 San Jose State University [...]