Impact

As you may already know, our innovative collaboration with Starbucks and Feeding America on the FoodShare program is providing wholesome, ready-to-eat meals to our most vulnerable residents. Launched in June, [...]

Second Harvest serves more than a quarter of a million people each month. So how can we make sure each client enjoys a positive experience? Joyful faces greet stacks [...]

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, [...]

Taking a page from the Silicon Valley playbook, Second Harvest is investing in innovation and utilizing design thinking to include clients in creating innovative solutions to solve for hunger [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new study demonstrates just how perilous the long-term effects of food insecurity are on children. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the University of Calgary performed the first long-term study on the effects of hunger on general health, tracking children from birth to 21 years.