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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES, FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE AND MORE – DECEMBER 5
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Family sort nights are back in Second Harvest’s Spokane Hunger Solution Center! Families with children 9 and older can volunteer together to help sort and pack food that we share with our partner agencies and through our Mobile Market for our neighbors in need. For more information about volunteering, click here. To sign up to volunteer, click here.
While our Pasco Hunger Solution Center has not been open to volunteers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we know volunteering is an important and meaningful way people give back to their community. We’re grateful for our community’s generous response to the increased need for food assistance during the COVID-19 crisis and are working to ensure that volunteers can safely return to the Pasco Hunger Solution soon. We do have ongoing Mobile Market volunteer opportunities available, however, and you can register online by clicking here. Watch for volunteer updates in our weekly emails and on social media.
SPOKANE COUNTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE
Second Harvest is partnering with Special Mobility Services and other organizations to help bring food to people facing food insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis. During December, Special Mobility Services and additional partners are piloting a home delivery program in Spokane County. Second Harvest is providing 10-pound boxes of shelf-stable food items to be delivered to participating families. Both the food provided through this program and the delivery service are funded by Spokane County CARES Act grants. See below for more information about this program.
MOBILE MARKET
This December, Washington’s Beef Community is helping to address the increased need for food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing holiday roasts at three Mobile Market events in Toppenish, Yakima and Ellensburg. The Beef Counts—Washington’s Beef Community United Against Hunger—program is celebrating its 10th anniversary of providing nutritious beef to hungry families. For more about this partnership and the upcoming Mobile Market distributions, click here or here.
THANKSGIVING TURKEY DRIVES
Amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, Second Harvest’s Thanksgiving turkey drives were a huge success this year thanks to the generous support of our volunteers, donors and sponsors!
The 21st annual Tom’s Turkey Drive in Spokane provided 11,000 Thanksgiving meal boxes to people facing hunger in the Greater Spokane area. Thanks to a generous food donor, an additional 760 families received a frozen turkey after all meal boxes had been distributed. You can watch a clip of KREM 2’s coverage of the event here and here or view the Spokesman Review’s photo gallery from the event here.
To sign up to receive our COVID-19 updates via email, please click here.
From The Kitchen: Cooking with dried beans, lentils and peas – March 8
Have you ever received dried goods, such as beans, lentils or split peas, and felt stumped on how to use them? Cooking with dried goods can seem daunting, especially if you’re used to using canned varieties. However, dried beans, lentils and split peas are affordable and often found in food pantries, so cooking with them is a great skill to gain confidence in. Continue reading for some tips and tricks on how to prepare dried ingredients and gain some cooking inspiration from Second Harvest recipes that utilize them.
National Agriculture Month: Celebrating Ag Partners and Friends – March 1
We take immense pleasure throughout the year in celebrating our agriculture partners and friends. But during National Agriculture Month, we take extra measures to recognize their continued support, contributions and commitment to Second Harvest’s mission of serving people facing hunger.
Our ag partners range from small, local farms to large industry farms, livestock operations, and the processing and manufacturing plants that support them.
Why I support Second Harvest: A donor’s story – February 23
Nothing is more important than having food on the table. To state the obvious, food—like shelter—is something without which we cannot survive. Second Harvest thus quite literally provides a lifeline for those whom my wife and I cannot feed directly. And it has done so for the nearly 40 years that we have supported Second Harvest. During this period we have seen not even a hint that their mission is diminishing in importance. On the contrary, the organization seems to be throwing out more and more lifelines to those in our midst who are in danger of sinking.
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