The following blog post was contributed by Daryl Myers Jr., owner of DJ’s Cheesecakes and a graduate of Second Harvest Food Bank’s...

A mother sits at her kitchen table, a pile of bills before her: The water bill, the electrical bill, the daycare payment, the rent note....

Every day, usually before the sun is even up, Second Harvest’s small fleet of 10 trucks roll out our gates and across 18 counties of...

Earlier this month, Ben Dunlap stood up to the microphone in front of a group of students about to graduate from Providence Culinary...

HEAT OR EAT? No Family Should Have to Choose. Too many Northwest North Carolina families are making tough choices: Do they pay a utility...

The Wisdom of Dorthea Lange’s America (On exhibit at Reynolda House Museum of American Art through December 30, 2018) While statistics on...

But it wasn’t long ago that a major heart attack that turned Chuck’s life upside down. Unable to work the long hours he had been putting...

Jenny Hudson’s house is a tidy ranch on a cul-de-sac. Wildflowers and hostas edge the walkway, and the car in the driveway has one...

Jenny Hudson’s house is a tidy ranch on a cul-de-sac. Wildflowers and hostas edge the walkway, and the car in the driveway has one...

“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...

Summertime is an expensive time for Northwest North Carolina families, and even families above the poverty line feel the burden of...

“During the school year, I can provide enough, but in the summer it gets frightening,” says Teresa, looking at her two children as they...

The room at Macedonia Family Resource Center in High Point, NC, is hushed as 10 seniors listen to the caller and move pinto beans over...

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...

Michael Lewis admits his work ethic was not the strongest when he was a dishwasher. Dishwashing is, you can imagine, a very tedious job....

Across the Carolinas, there are 2.6 million people living in poverty. 2.6 million people. Early in the morning, a convoy of ten tractor...

This Veterans Day, we are each thinking of the veterans who have given so much to our great state and great nation. Unfortunately, too...

Last Thanksgiving, Crystal figured out how to cook turkey in a crockpot. The 300 square feet of their motel room was filled with the...

133 billion pounds of food is wasted every year, yet 42 million Americans do not get enough nutritious food to eat to lead healthy,...