Local Hunger Fighter: Dr. Michelle Hauser
“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. [...]
Mission College Food Market
Special Blog Post By: Tometrius Paxton, Senior Manager of Community Partnerships On February 7, the first ever open food distribution was launched at Santa Clara’s Mission College for students [...]
Ride Along with Ronson, Second Harvest Driver
We decided to join one of our drivers, Ronson, on a ride along! It was an early morning: Ronson typically starts at 5.30 am to start loading his truck with [...]
Pilot Program: Wellness Pantries
Special Blog Post By: Mark Kokoletsos, Partnership Manager, Second Harvest. On Tuesday, December 5, Second Harvest, in partnership with the Fair Oaks Health Center and Sequoia Healthcare District, held the [...]
Food Connection Hotline: 30 Years of Helping Our Neighbors in Need
A Food Connection Hotline operator answers the phone in the late 80s. Our Food Connection Hotline recently celebrated its 30th Anniversary and we sat down with Cindy McCown, [...]
Local Hunger Fighter: Graciela Ramirez
Local Hunger Fighter: Graciela Ramirez, St. Joseph’s Family Center Our Food Connection Specialist Jessica Davis thinks that Graciela (Grace) Ramirez from St. Joseph’s Family Center in Gilroy works really hard [...]
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 [...]
Staff Spotlight: Food Assistance Following Disaster
In the wake of the fires in the North Bay, Second Harvest sent three staff members to Redwood Empire Food Bank in Sonoma County to help with Disaster Supplemental Nutrition [...]
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 [...]