Earlier this month, Second Helpings delivered the 15,000,000th meal of our 22-year mission to #FeedIndy. Based on previous years’ operations and initial predictions for 2020, Second Helpings reached this milestone nearly a year earlier than originally expected. This quickened pace to produce more meals is in response to the [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced nearly every aspect of Second Helpings’ operations from the changing food supply to the growing need for meals. This health crisis also changed our volunteer workforce. Many people chose to restrict their ventures outside the home, due to higher risk factors or other challenges. [...]
“Normally” Second Helpings provides meals to community organizations – churches, shelters, community centers, after-school programs and many others share Second Helpings meals with their neighbors, clients and students. That’s happening during the coronavirus outbreak as well, but something kept haunting us – who was getting left behind during this [...]
In 2008, I was a new Second Helpings Board member. At my first board retreat we recognized that there was something wrong with a hunger relief system where the organizations responsible for the work didn’t know, understand, or talk to each other. From those discussions arose what would eventually [...]
For two decades, the Sahm family and their restaurants have supported Second Helpings. Yesterday, opened a new chapter in that relationship. It started with an email from Eddie Sahm at 2:07 Sunday morning. By Friday, Sahm’s Cafeteria in the OneAmerica tower had become Second Helpings’ first satellite kitchen, delivering [...]
Last Thursday was a day most of us will likely never forget. While Second Helpings had planned for weeks for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak, like everyone else in our society, even with plans in place, we were in untested waters. For more than two decades our charitable [...]
There are times when the world around us changes at a blistering speed. Thursday, March 12th was one of those days. Thursday, 5 p.m. The announcement of school closures Thursday evening was immediately followed by afterschool and other program cancellations. Thousands of meals that were prepared and ready to [...]
At Second Helpings we are keenly aware of the important role that Second Helpings plays in our community for 90 other local not-for-profit agencies and for the families who struggle with hunger each day. Food safety and sanitation practices are always at the forefront of our work at Second [...]
Once a week the youth served at Outreach have access to community partners who assist with obtaining identification, employment, health insurance, and more accompanied by a hearty Second Helpings meal. Since the partnership with Outreach began in 2016, Second Helpings has provided the youth served with [...]
Campers at Jameson Camp share a laugh over a meal provided by Second Helpings. Do you remember long summer days with friends? Maybe at a camp or in a park? Lemonade? Watermelon? Special foods are always a part of summer. Like you, youth who receive Second Helpings [...]