FINAL day to Vote to FIGHT Hunger

Vote Now to Fight Hunger

FINAL day to Vote. We need your school, college, corporation to do this by 11 p.m. TONIGHT! We’re in 2nd place, we need your vote to win! (on Apple products get ‘Atomic Lite’ Free App to Vote) https://apps.facebook.com/walmartfighthunger/profile/1961?src=share

 

URGENT! Loosing our Lead win $1 Million to fight hunger in our area! VOTE NOW

Little Girl with a Meal

Folks, we’re about to loose our lead, other communities are making a HUGE move. They’ve gained thousands of votes yesterday. This $1,000,000 would go so far to help our region to help the 93,000 people living in poverty in our Northeast Tennessee Region.  It doesn’t cost anything to help in this campaign only a few minutes of your time to vote on facebook.  Won’t you please vote for the next four days!  

Please vote for Johnson City (it’s really the whole region) by clicking the highlighted link below (Facebook). Please click the link below to help now:

https://apps.facebook.com/walmartfighthunger/profile/1961?src=share

Our mission is to feed the hungry by securing and distributing food and grocery products to non-profit agencies that provide services to the needy in the eight-county region of Northeast Tennessee.

 

 

A Complete View of the SNAP Program

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – aka “Food Stamps” – is an issue of debate, and as the 2012 elections develop, the program will continue to be under scrutiny.

For many individuals in need of food assistance, SNAP is a front-line of defense.  Feeding America has developed a variety of resources to help educate the public about SNAP, its processes, and the recipients who utilize the program.

Please review the document entitled “SNAP Program Facts, Myths and Realities.”

 

Second Harvest of Northeast Tennessee Announces Walmart Foundation Donation

Mobile Food Pantry

Jan 18, 2012 –
Northeast, TN – Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee announces they are the recipient of a $40,000 grant from Walmart State Giving to benefit the Food Bank’s Mobile Food Pantry program. This program provides assistance to people in communities that have little or no access to food.  The Walmart State Giving Grant, along with a new truck donated recently from the American Idol Gives Back Foundation and Feeding America, enables the Food Bank to expand its Mobile Food Pantry program.

During Fiscal Year 2012, the Mobile Food Pantry made 170 distributions, giving out over 397,000 pounds of food. Currently the Mobile Food Pantry is serving 22 sites in Northeast Tennessee. By 2013 the Food Bank hopes to serve 45 sites per month with the Mobile Pantry. The Mobile Food Pantry began as a pilot project in October of 2009. Second Harvest’s extensive gap analysis has identified communities in every county of its service area where people may not have enough access to retail stores, food pantries, soup kitchens, and other resources, along with a significant proportion of individuals living at or below the poverty level. These communities are targeted for the expansion of the Mobile Food Pantry Program. The Food Bank also plans to add sites in the other counties, and will increase the amount and nutritional quality of food included in each box distributed.    

Through the State Giving Program, the Walmart Foundation supports organizations with programs that align with their mission to create opportunities so people can live better. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation’s current focus is on hunger relief efforts in the U.S. in order to support the record 1 in 6 Americans who do not know where their next meal is coming from. Walmart’s network of more than 4,000 store and club locations provided more than $11.9 million in funding to state and local-level organizations last year.

In addition to the Walmart Foundation Grant, the Food Bank is pleased to announce that one of their agencies, New Victory Baptist Church Help Center, Jonesborough, TN was the recipient of one of twelve $10,000 grants awarded during Walmart’s “12 Days of Giving” Facebook campaign. New Victory was chosen from more than 5,400 nominations from Facebook users who shared photos and descriptions of the nonprofit’s impact on their local community.

Over 8 million pounds of food and grocery products were distributed by the Food Bank during 2011, enough for over 5 million meals.  During 2011 food bank agencies and programs served over 36,000 individuals per month. The Food Bank encourages the community to get involved in helping feed the hungry in Northeast Tennessee. Ways to help include making a monetary donation, becoming a Food Bank agency, volunteering or holding a food drive to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee. Visit the Food Bank’s website http://www.netfoodbank.org for more information.

 

Second Harvest Receives New Truck

 

Generous Truck Donation

Second Harvest Food Bank of NE TN http://www.netfoodbank.org announces they have received a significant donation of a new truck for their Mobile Food Pantry from the American Idol Foundation and Feeding America.

View our New Truck Video below:

 

Project Thanksgiving 2011

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We just completed our Project Thanksgiving 2011. We would love to hear some stories from anyone who was part of it on the giving or receiving end?

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Emerging Power series: Rhonda Chafin, executive director of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee