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Second Harvest North Florida fights hunger

We couldn’t do the work we do without the thousands of

every day. More than 450 nonprofits are

volunteers who assist our small staff. Let us develop a creative way for your service group, corporation or family

dependent on us to provide them with food

to volunteer time and make a personal, powerful experience for all involved. Visit WeNourishHope.org

for the hungry people they serve – children,

or email volunteer@wenourishhope.org to learn more.

veterans, seniors and the working poor.

Second Harvest also encourages community groups

As a nonprofit, we are dependent on cash and food donations, as well as volunteers, to deliver over 20 million pounds of food to hundreds of thousands of people in need.

Even that's not enough. We need to reach

To Get Involved: VISIT WeNourishHope.org CALL 904.353.FOOD (3663) EMAIL donate@wenourishhope.org Second Harvest North Florida is an IRS 501(C)(3) program

to get involved by hosting food or fund drives at their schools, places of business or worship or in their neighborhoods. Shelf-stable items are important staples in our ability to provide meals. Second Harvest can create seven meals from each $1 donated. Learn more at WeNourishHope.org/onedollar. Second Harvest takes food donations at the warehouse, Monday through

(EIN #59-1965600) and all contributions are tax deductible.

Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Our warehouse is located at: 1502 Jessie Street, Jacksonville, FL 32206

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40 million pounds to end hunger in our 17-county north Florida region. Won’t you support us today?

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HOW WE SERVE PEOPLE IN NEED The Need

Food Arrives

More than 342,000 individuals in the Second Harvest North Florida service area are deemed to be “food insecure” – which means they might not be hungry, but they also don’t know when they will eat again. Of that total, more than 117,000 are children. In the 17county area we serve, 136,269 people are in a class of working poor with no access to federal or state benefits. We are the sole

From Donations: Local grocery store partners, regional food wholesalers, local food drives, individuals, farmers & farmers markets

source of food for thousands of working poor families.

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OUR SERVICE AREA

From Government Resources: TEFAP (from USDA) Through Feeding America Network: CHOICE system, national donor relationships

Food is Sorted/Stored

To 450+ Member Agencies: Ministries, church pantries, medical clinics, senior citizen centers, after-school programs, summer programs, shelters & feeding sites

Food is sorted/stored in our 33,000-square-foot warehouse facility or other warehouse locations in St. Augustine, Gainesville and Lake City

Through Mobile Pantries

Non-perishable foods are sorted and shelved for distribution

Through Special Programs: Kids Cafe, Summer Lunch feeding sites, BackPack Program, healthy food distribution programs, SNAP outreach

Second Harvest staff includes 24 direct operations employees

$1 donated = 7 meals, a two-day supply of food for a person in need We source and distribute food donated by retailers and the community via four primary warehouses and 21 trucks

Perishable foods are stored in freezers or refrigeration units

3,770 volunteers worked 24,000+ hours in 2011

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More than 450 nonprofit agencies including homeless shelters, senior citizen centers, day care facilities, youth programs and food pantries depend on us.

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Second Harvest has a detailed monitoring process to ensure that all food donations are stored safely, properly distributed and easily accessed by those in need.

1 in 4 children are food insecure

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Geographically, the area served by Second Harvest represents more than 10,000 square miles, including nearly 3,000 square miles served by the Second Harvest facility on Jessie Street.

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Every dollar you donate will provide seven meals to hungry neighbors. To see more on the impact your donation makes, visit wenourishhope.org/onedollar.

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Feed 237 families enough food to last four days by sponsoring a mobile pantry with a gift of $1,000. The hope it provides is priceless. To learn more about mobile pantries, visit wenourishhope.org/mobilepantry.

As Purchased Resources

Food is Distributed

1 in 6 adults are food insecure

4 WAYS YOU CAN HELP FIGHT HUNGER

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Since 1979, Second Harvest North Florida’s mission has been providing food resources to hungry people. Second Harvest works within a vast network of resources and partners – including food and financial donors, a dedicated staff and volunteers that help manage the work load and agencies that distribute meals to families and individuals in need.

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Our large food supply partners include Wal-Mart, Winn-Dixie, Publix, BJs, Sam's Wholesale and Target. We also receive USDA surplus food, in addition to produce from local farms as they become available.

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As part of the Feeding America national network of food banks, we offer nonprofits the ability to stretch their dollar and use those resources on other program services.

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Second Harvest North Florida is a proud member of Feeding America – the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. It has a network of 205 member food banks and food-rescue organizations serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The Feeding America Network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually.

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Adopt a hungry child through our BackPack program for $100 for the entire school year (42 weekends). This provides children living at or below the poverty level with food staples to feed a family of four during the weekend that will help bridge the gap when school nutrition programs are not available. There is currently an unmet need of several thousand children in north Florida. To learn more about the BackPack program, visit wenourishhope.org/backpack.

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Help end hunger by investing in Second Harvest. Your gifts help power our distribution network that gets food into the hands of people who need it. Unrestricted dollars fuel our operation so that we can keep the cost of food to our agencies low.

Join us in ending hunger by becoming an annual or monthly donor. Visit wenourishhope.org/donate.

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