Together, We Thrive
Your support, as a caring and committed member of our community, is invaluable. With your help, Second Harvest Food Bank distributed enough food for 82 million meals last year.
Each meal represents more than just sustenance. It’s an opportunity to improve health, restore hope, and inspire change.
Food empowers hardworking individuals to overcome unexpected emergencies. It fuels students to excel in the classroom and beyond. It enables seniors to live active and full lives. It is the foundation for adults to train and pursue new careers.
This is the power of what food makes possible. Read more about how you help your neighbors thrive.
Your 2024 Impact
Happy New Year! On behalf of everyone at Second Harvest Food Bank, thank you for your support in 2024.
In a year filled with uncertainty, ranging from severe weather to economic shifts, you were a beacon of hope for your neighbors facing hunger. With your help, Second Harvest Food Bank provided 82 million meals last year for families, kids and seniors in Brevard, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia County.
Because of you, so much more than meals were provided.
Hunger Is Rising, But We Can Turn the Tide
Can I afford to buy groceries this month? If I do, how will we cover rent? What will the kids eat when they come home from school? How will we make it through the weekend?
When you’re living with food insecurity, it’s all you can think about – from the moment you wake up in the morning to your last restless worries before falling asleep. That’s because hunger is much more than an empty stomach. It’s an impossible dilemma that casts a shadow over every aspect of your life.
In today’s economy, more than one in eight Central Floridians is at risk of experiencing hunger on any given day. At Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, we’re doing our part to provide the right nutrition to our neighbors by distributing enough food for approximately 300,000 meals daily.
A Wake-Up Call in the Fight Against Hunger
“Rent eats first.” Those three words, shared matter-of-factly by a neighbor as she sought food assistance at a local distribution, have stayed in my mind since I first heard them. They describe a dilemma – and silent crisis – many families are struggling with right now in Central Florida and beyond.
Hunger is real. It is urgent. And many people have no choice but to face it alone. That’s part of the message I recently brought to Washington, D.C., after being invited to participate in a Fed Listens panel. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve asked for an update on food insecurity. While I’m sure they hoped to hear things had improved in the past two years, I was there to tell them the opposite.
