Donate Food

Hold a Food Drive
Food donated to local drives goes directly to the 20 emergency food pantries in Spokane County. Second Harvest needs 60,000 pounds of food from these drives each month for its food pantry network.

Interested in organizing a food drive through your business, club or organization? Download our food drive packet here, or contact (509) 252-6257 or fooddrive@2-harvest.org.

Food Industry
Many people do not realize that without food industry donations, Second Harvest would not be able to support so many nonprofit organizations in their efforts to help people in need. Support from local, regional and national wholesalers, retailers, growers and brokers are vital to Second Harvest's work, as they provide more than 70 percent of warehouse inventory.

To arrange a food industry donation, contact Mike Urquhart at (509) 252-6241 or murquhart@2-harvest.org.

Grocery Rescue
A new strategy for securing new food donations is Second Harvest's Grocery Rescue initiative. Second Harvest is dedicating a refrigerated truck to a daily route to pick up 400 to 500 pounds of unmarketable but usable food (including fresh produce, dairy products and deli meats) from participating grocers. These food donations include inventory that is off-specification, mislabeled, near expiration or simply overstock.

Grocers interested in participating in this program should contact Drew Meuer at (509) 252-6244 or dmeuer@2-harvest.org.

Click here for the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010.

Liability Protection and Food Donations
Click here to view the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act.