We Love Our Volunteers: Second Harvest 2018 Volunteer Awards
Every year, we gather for an evening to celebrate our volunteers who give so much to us, so frequently. Second Harvest volunteers engage...
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Sep 4, 2018
We Can’t Run On Empty: Hunger Action Month
Build Community. Inspire Action. Support the “We Can’t Run On Empty” Campaign We all need healthy food to be able to do our best work....
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Aug 13, 2018
Breakfast and Fellowship
“I’d like to pray for my grandbaby who has been sick with a cold this week.” It is 9 AM on a Saturday and the hot North Carolina sun is...
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May 23, 2018
Agency Advisory Council Spotlight: Susan Cox
[ The following blog post was written by food banker Ashley Bonner, Agency Relations Coordinator for Second Harvest Food Bank. “The best...
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May 22, 2018
5 Reasons You Should Run the Empty Bowls 5k Crit this Weekend
Music and beer. Run the course and then enjoy a complimentary beer from Winston-Salem’s newest brewery, Incendiary Brewing Company and...
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May 18, 2018
“They can’t solve the problem… but we can.”
“What’s the saying? Shoot for the sky and you might hit the ceiling?” Joey Motsey smiles a broad grin and laughs a little; he switches...
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May 18, 2018
“What’s not okay is for my kids to be hungry.”
“During the school year, I can provide enough, but in the summer it gets frightening,” says Teresa, looking at her two children as they...
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May 4, 2018
Stamp Out Hunger with Second Harvest and Your Letter Carrier!
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Nor...
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Apr 12, 2018
5 Reasons Why the Empty Bowls Dinner is a Perfect Girls Night Out
1. You can go early… or late. Second Harvest introduced the Empty Bowls Dinner in addition to the traditional luncheon because your...
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Apr 11, 2018
April is National Volunteer Month
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve,” said Martin Luther King. At Second Harvest, we get to spend time with some pretty...
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Apr 4, 2018
Tireless and Dedicated: Food Bank volunteers Gwen and Warren get things done.
Tammy DeCicco, Second Harvest’s Volunteer Coordinator, wrote this story and nomination of two incredible volunteers, Gwen Blane and...
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Apr 2, 2018
They Really DO Make Great Neighbors: Why we love Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices volunteers
Second Harvest is fortunate to have many dedicated volunteers that support our mission of moving healthy, nutritious food to the 18...
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Mar 26, 2018
Why I Volunteer At Empty Bowls by Sarah Stitzel
I’ve been a part of Second Harvest’s Empty Bowls fundraiser in one way or another for the past seven years. First as a guest, then as a...
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Mar 15, 2018
Ready, Set, Go! A springtime line-up of races to end hunger.
Lace up your running shoes! Second Harvest has a growing list of foot races that benefit our work, and we don’t see these only as...
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Mar 7, 2018
Nikki Miller-Ka is Coming to Empty Bowls. Are you?
Nikki Miller-Ka is a professional food blogger and food critic based in Winston-Salem. She writes and bites about local and regional...
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Feb 20, 2018
Nothing Should Be Seen As Waste: Reclaiming food… and flowers?
When you hear our name–Second Harvest Food Bank– you rightly think of food and the issue of hunger within our community. Food: that’s who...
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Feb 2, 2018
All Things Soup
There is nothing more ordinary than soup and perhaps that is why we are so fond of it. Soup’s comfort, after all, is both in its warmth...
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Jan 11, 2018
Take the Pledge: Volunteering in the New Year
Volunteers power Second Harvest Food Bank. It’s as simple as that. We could not help provide food and resources to the one in four people...
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Nov 28, 2017
Holiday Food Drives
To say they can set up this tent in the dark is not an analogy: it is literally what food bankers Joe Kilar and Michael Berry do with...
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Nov 22, 2017
Bearing witness to the great generosity and kindness of our communities.
They are painting flowers. They are painting their favorite foods. They are painting trees and peace symbols and mandalas and cherry...
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