Applied Materials Helping Hands Day 2018 Recap

Last December, 300 Applied Materials employees and their families spent a Saturday morning at Second Harvest for their 23rd annual “Helping Hands Day.” They packed an incredible 6,000 boxes [...]

Volunteer FAQs

Volunteering FAQs Questions Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination What COVID-19 requirements are in place for volunteers? Volunteer opportunities What volunteer opportunities are available at Second Harvest? I [...]

Fundraising Spotlight: Lopez Heirloom Plants

Shaun and Crystal founded Lopez Heirloom Plants out of their San Jose, California home in 2016.  With the help of their daughters Lauren and Dylan, Shaun and Crystal source [...]

Summer Hunger: A Health Care Perspective

Special post by Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH, Stanford School of Medicine “Today's park lunch. Flat bread turkey and cheese sandwich, apple, [...]

Local Hunger Fighter: Huey Harris, Volunteer Team Leader

“Local Hunger Fighters” is a series that spotlights our awesome volunteers, community partners and donors who help raise awareness of hunger in our community and motivate people to get involved. [...]

SNAP and Children’s Health

Special Blog Post By Dr. Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford Deborah Frank, M.D., Boston Medical Center, and Lisa Chamberlain, M.D. As a pediatrician, [...]

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 [...]