Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TN

Community Food partners - our work includes activities conducted to fulfill Second Harvest's mission, resulting in services that provide to people facing hunger in Middle and west Tennessee and activities that work to advance hunger solutions. Second Harvest works in 46 counties throughout Middle and west Tennessee. Specific programs within this category include:partner agencies - Second Harvest provided nearly 43 million pounds of Food during fy23 (or more than 35 million meals) to approximately 450 not-for-profit agencies, including Food pantries, congregate meal sites, and emergency Food programs. These partners work throughout their respective communities to assist Food insecure families. Snap outreach - Second Harvest offers snap outreach through our emergency Food box sites, mobile pantry distributions, and partner agencies. Snap, previously known as Food stamps, assists low-income individuals & families by providing monthly assistance to purchase Food. Second Harvest's client outreach staff shares information about the nutrition benefits of snap, pre-screens participants, and helps individuals complete the snap application. Counselors assisted in completing approximately 1,000 applications during fy23.commodity supplemental Food program (csfp) - which works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious usda foods. In 2023, nearly 23,000 boxes were distributed to qualified seniors in davidson county.

The mobile pantry program reaches nearly all of Second Harvest's 46 counties and is a large-scale, one-day distribution of perishable and non-perishable Food to families in need. During fy23, more than 4.5 million pounds of Food was distributed through this program's 222 events.

Project preserve sales are reported net of allowances for discounts and returns. Revenue is recognized when the product is shipped to the customer. Project preserve sells products primarily to out-of-area agencies in the feeding america network, but also sells to partner agencies within the Food Bank's local area. In addition to selling purchased product, the program also operates a cook/chill operation, which is a method of Food manufacturing that involves heating Food, pumping the product into form-fill plastic bags that are heat sealed, then super cooled for approximately 45 minutes prior to freezing the product. It has utilized large amounts of donated ingredients that would have otherwise been wasted. Additionally, this operation produces tray pack meals for children's feeding, senior nutrition and partner agencies that do direct home distribution to clients in need.another component of project preserve is to provide pre-assemble boxes to the network for regular distributions as well as disaster relief. In fy2023, project preserve was able to respond to the needs of feeding america network Food banks for hurricane ian response by providing nearly 300,000 assembled Food boxes into Florida and other impacted states for a total of nearly $6 million in sales.

Other program services include:emergency Food box - the longest-operating program of Second Harvest provided just over one million meals in fy23. Emergency staples, as well as produce, meat, and dairy, is provided to families in need through its eleven satellite centers in davidson county.children's feeding programs - Second Harvest's children's feeding programs includes kids cafe, at risk after school program, summer Food service program, school pantry program, and backpack program. Kids cafe, at risk after school program, and summer Food service program operates a weekly feeding program for children at risk of hunger in several area community centers and provided over 83,000 nutritious meals to children during fy23. The backpack program meets the needs of hungry children by providing them with nutritious and easy to prepare Food to take home on weekends when other resources are not available. During fy23, Second Harvest distributed over 303,000 backpacks to hungry children. The school pantry program is designed to increase Food access for families in need. Fifty sites were operated during fy23 providing more than 300,000 meals.grocery rescue - this program collects perishable and non-perishable Food from over 280 retail partnersfor distribution to partner agencies and program sites. Products rescued and distributed include meat, produce, dairy, break, bakery items, and dry products. During fy23, Second Harvest picked up directly or enables over 11.6 million pounds of Food (equivalent to more than 9.6 million meals).