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 Food 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 48 million pounds of Food during the year ended june 30, 2024 (or more than 39 million meals) to over 600 not-for-profit agencies, including Food pantries, congregate meal sites, and emergency Food programs. Nearly 43 million pounds of Food was distributed in 2023 (or 35 million meals). These partners work throughout their respective communities to assist Food insecure families. Snap outreach - Second Harvest offers snap outreach through our neighbor care pantries, mobile pantry distributions, and partner agencies. Snap, previously known as Food stamps, assists low-income individuals and families by providing monthly assistance to purchase Food. Second Harvest's client outreach staff share information about the nutrition benefits of snap, pre-screen participants, and help individuals complete the snap application. Outreach staff assisted in completing approximately 1,500 applications during the year ended june 30, 2024 (1,000 applications in 2023).commodity supplemental Food program (csfp) - Second Harvest operates csfp which works to improve the health of low-income individuals at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious usda foods. In the year ended june 30, 2024, nearly 23,000 boxes were distributed to qualified seniors in davidson county (nearly 23,000 boxes in 2023).manufacturing - Second Harvest 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. Or the year ended june 30, 2024 this program utilized more than 156,000 pounds 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.grocery rescue - this program collects perishable and non-perishable Food from over 520 retail partners for distribution to partner agencies and program sites. Products rescued and distributed include meat, produce, dairy, bread, bakery items, and dry products. During the year ended june 30, 2024, Second Harvest picked up directly or facilitated pickup by partner agencies over 13.3 million pounds of Food (equivalent to more than 11 million meals) and collected 11.6 million pounds of Food in 2023.

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 the year ended june 30, 2024, more than 5.4 million pounds of Food was distributed through this program's 226 events (more than 4.5 million pounds at 222 events in 2023).

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 fy2024, project preserve began listing products for sale on the feeding america grocery purchasing portal (gpp) fulfilling 49 product orders ($2 million in sales). Another component is to provide disaster relief. For the year ending june 30, 2024, project preserve was able to respond to the needs of feeding america network Food banks for disaster relief by providing nearly 114,000 assembled Food boxes across several states for a total of $2.5 million in sales. In 2023, 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 to 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 nearly two million meals during the year ended june 30, 2024 (just over one million meals in 2023). Emergency staples, as well as produce, meat, and dairy, are provided to families in need through its 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 86,000 nutritious meals to children during 2024 (over 83,000 meals in 2023). 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 the year ended june 30, 2024, Second Harvest distributed over 230,000 backpacks to hungry children (303,000 backpacks in 2023). The school pantry program is designed to increase Food access for families in need. Fifty sites were operated during each of the 2024 and 2023 fiscal years, providing more than 300,000 meals.