Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest Hope Food Bank is the Food security lifeline for agencies sharing our hunger relief mission, and for the year ended june 30, 2018 partnered with 399 agencies in addition to 199 other program partners for a total of 598 community nonprofit, school, faith partner collaborations bringing meals to urban, suburban and isolated areas of south carolinatotal Harvest Hope agencies distributing during the year ended june 30, 2018: 399other program partners total: 199total partner collaboration in 20 counties: 598total meals distributed by agencies: 19,289,273total pounds distributed by agencies: 23,147,128breakdown by location:midlands (counties of calhoun, chester, fairfield, kershaw, lexington, newberry, orangeburg, richland and saluda):9,001,649 total meals distributed310,186 total families served803,481 total individuals served10,801,979 total pounds distributedpee dee (counties of chesterfield, clarendon, darlington, dillon, florence, lee, marion, marlboro and sumter)4,542,655 total meals distributed236,754 total families served613,152 total individuals served5,451,186 total pounds distributed greenville (counties of greenville and laurens):5,744,969 total meals distributed191,092 total ...

Harvest Hope has three (3) of its own emergency Food pantries (cayce, greenville, columbia), as well as one (1) emergency Food box program (pee dee) that provides immediate hunger relief to families, individuals and seniors. Well known as our signature service, clients come from nearly all counties in south carolina to receive shelf stable products, fresh produce, meat, diary, baked goods, frozen foods and baby items or adult hygiene products, if available. We discuss with them the reasons why they may be experiencing hunger which is usually one of the following; unemployed, underemployed, can't afford medicine or medical care, high cost of dwelling and utility expenses or are disabled. We provide resources to deal with problems and assist them in applying for privileges and benefits, including the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap). Although they may arrive with no Food at home, after a brief interview process, Harvest Hope's clients leave ...

Harvest Hope provides supplementary nutrition and meals to hungry children through two programs: backpack and kids cafe. Harvest Hope also serves seniors through the cfsp program in addition to our own totes of love program.harvest Hope Food banks backpack children's feeding programfor so many children who only receive nourishing meals when they are at school, every weekend means two days of hunger. At the end of each school week, Harvest hopes backpack program gives at-risk school children a backpack with enough Food to provide seven meals, so they can return each monday nourished and prepared to learn. Harvest Hope partners with faith leaders and businesses that fill the backpacks each week, who then distribute them to children at their own schools.total meals distributed: 79,278total children served: 28,641total pounds distributed: 569,850total school sites: 95total faith packing and sponsor partners: 56breakdown by location:midlands: 589,246 meals distributed (589 children served per week/21,194 per ...