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 [...]
Mission: Possible – Marie-Edith Aubry
"Mission: Possible" focuses on our volunteers, without whom our mission of creating a hunger-free community would be impossible! Special blog post by Teresa Carstens, Encore Fellow in Volunteer Services Marie-Edith [...]
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 [...]
Orange is the Happiest Color: A Fresh Food Donation
At the end of May, our partner Village Harvest, a nonprofit volunteer organization that harvests fruit from backyards and small orchards to feed those in need, informed us there was [...]
Superheroes Come in Many Forms
Special post by Colleen Murphy, Second Harvest's Volunteer Engagement Coordinator Second Harvest held our first Family Sort on Saturday, May 19, and it’s safe to say the families had a [...]
Events Recap: We Celebrate Volunteers and Donors
We recently hosted two events at our Cypress Center in San Jose to celebrate our community's commitment to end local hunger: the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon, which took place on Monday, [...]
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. [...]