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Education and Nutritious Food for All: Reflecting on Food for Fines
Karen Dougherty, library clerk at Los Altos Library, depositing a bag of food With the recent Food for Fines program at Santa Clara County Library District (SCCLD), [...]
Free Summer Meals for Kids and Teens
Free, healthy summer meals are available for all kids and teens under 18. To find locations near you, text “FOOD” to 877-877. There are over 130 schools, libraries, parks [...]
Comida gratis durante el verano para niños y adolescentes
Comida gratis y saludable estará disponible para todos los niños y adolescentes menores de 18 años. Para encontrar locales cerca de usted, envié el mensaje de texto "COMIDA" al [...]
2019 Harvest of Knowledge Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM8FKCqTulI&yt%3Acc=on On Friday, May 3, Second Harvest hosted its 2019 Harvest of Knowledge Partner Conference at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood City. The event was a success with [...]
Ray’s Story: Why Healthy Food Matters
Ray hopes to counsel people who have experienced trauma in their lives, but right now he is trying to get an education in one of the most expensive places [...]
Nutrition in Action: Tasty Black Bean Salad Recipe
Written by: Alex Navarro, Nutrition Education Manager Here at Second Harvest, we pride ourselves with providing a balanced mix of nutritious foods to encourage our clients to create their [...]
The Spartan Food Pantry’s Grand Opening
On Friday, April 19, we celebrated the San Jose State University’s (SJSU) Spartan Food Pantry with our partner ServiceNow.SJSU alumni like Matt and Lauren have shown how students might work [...]
Advocating for Our Clients at the Nation’s Capital
By Tracy Weatherby, VP of Community Engagement & Policy Each year, Feeding America (the nation’s food bank network) and the Food Research Action Center organize the Anti-Hunger Conference in [...]
Nutrition in Action: Hey There, Fennel
In the past month, we've seen fennel at many of our food distributions. Most of our members are unfamiliar with it, so our food demos have been very successful [...]
A Student Champion – Benjamin’s Story
Your Support for the Kids Too many college students see their futures jeopardized because they struggle to get the nutritious food they need to perform in class and pursue [...]
For the Kids: Feed Kids, Nourish Lives
For the last two years, Faviola, Carlos and their three kids – 9-year-old Alex, 7-year-old Bruce and 3-year-old Destiny – have been homeless. Right now they are living in temporary [...]
Recap: 2019 Legislative Roundtables
Last month, we hosted two legislative roundtables, one at our Bing center and one at our Cypress center. Representatives from all different levels of government – local, state and [...]