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Expanding to End Hunger Leading the effort to end hunger and improve lives – that is the mission of America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. We are a member of Feeding Georgia, the state organization of seven food banks, and Feeding America, the national organization […]

2021: The Numbers Speak Volumes America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia distributed 28,127,452 pounds of food throughout the 21 counties we serve. Learn how our efforts provided food resources to School pantries, and to students in our Kids Cafe and BackPack Buddies progams. Discover how […]

Feeding Children – It’s What We Do! One in four children are at risk for hunger in Coastal Georgia. It’s a statistic you may have heard before, but have you ever thought about what’s being done to solve it? At America’s Second Harvest, our mission […]

2021 Georgians of the Year: COVID Heroes We are honored to be recognized by Georgia Trend magazine as one of their 2021 Georgians of the Year: COVID Heroes highlighted in the January 2021 issue. In her interview for the article, our Executive Director, Mary Jane […]

Emergency Response Efforts – On the Front Lines Fighting Hunger When faced with the mandatory shutdown of our state and our schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Second Harvest immediately flipped the switch ON for emergency response efforts. We have hosted 118 socially distanced, no […]

As we reflect on 2019, we are so grateful for the caring and compassionate people who enable Second Harvest to feed people who are food insecure in our community. Did you know that we’ve helped distribute over 18 million pounds of food throughout 21 counties, […]

2019 marks the celebration of 30 years of Kids Cafe, the third-largest childhood hunger initiative in the United States. But, did you know it all started in Coastal Georgia? Kids Cafe originated back in 1989 when two boys were found searching for food in a […]

Now that the holiday season is over, we look back on 2018 and see our accomplishments and yet see the work that still needs to be done. First and foremost, we want to thank each of you for helping make our efforts possible. Our community’s […]

Thank you for making 2017 a success! Heat or food. Lights or dinner. Rent or a meal. What would you choose? While many of us never have to consider this question, millions of Americans are constantly burdened with these types of difficult decisions. Through the […]

19,369 Miles Pounding the Pavement of Coastal Georgia Countless Staff & Volunteers Making it Happen What do these numbers mean to you? For America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia they mean we had a very busy summer feeding children. Grace’s Kitchen, under the direction of […]

The Volunteer Center is now Open for Helping Hands On Thursday, April 13th, we cut the ribbon and officially opened the doors of our new Volunteer Center sponsored by The Colonial Group, Inc. Christian Demere, Vice President, Colonial Oil, Inc. and Trip Tollison, President, Savannah […]

Brown Bag for the Elderly and CSFP – Senior Hunger Initiatives As we enter into a new year, we look forward to growing and improving our hunger initiative programs. Senior citizens (age 60 and older) are a rapidly growing demographic that have unique nutritional needs […]

Summer Feeding Pilot Program at Fort Stewart As we wrap up our eighth season of Summer Feeding, it is with mixed emotions that we can say it was another successful summer. We were able to provide 154,926 meals to feed 6,024 children, with the help […]

Local Military Volunteer to Help End Hunger America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia has been fortunate to have several groups of military contact us to lend a helping hand this Fall through volunteering and food drives. Soldiers from 603rd ASB, Hunter Army Airfield, 15th Air […]

Congressman Buddy Carter, Michele Chivore, Campaign Director for the Georgia Food Bank Association and Lucy Melcher from Share Our Strength joined Mary Jane Crouch and board members from America’s Second Harvest to celebrate the Bull Street Library as a new Summer 2015 feeding site. The […]

Gearing Up For Summer Feeding This summer, Second Harvest will be preparing and delivering breakfast and lunch to 60 locations across ten of the 21 counties that are in our service area. In collaboration with non-profits, churches, summer camps and summer school locations, we will […]

Kids Cafe Celebrates 25 Years Kids Cafe is a nationally recognized program designed to feed children at-risk for hunger who do not have access to an evening meal at home. Kids Cafe originated in Savannah twenty-five years ago and is now the second largest childhood […]

Second Harvest is there to Lend a Helping Hand Seven years ago Second Harvest introduced Mobile Food Pantry(MFP) to our broad group of service programs. MFP is designed to provide emergency food relief to residents who are elderly, disabled, low-income, unemployed or families and children […]

With a Growing Need for More Summer Feeding & Kids Cafe Sites, Our New Van from Arby’s Arrived Just in Time We love our Nissan NV200 van. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia was chosen as one of five Georgia non-profits to receive a capital […]

Partnership Makes it Possible! Last year, partners helped us provide more than 10 million pounds of food, or more than 8.4 million meals to relieve hunger for more than 147,000 people in need in Coastal Georgia! Read the full newsletter