As we continue to celebrate our 25th anniversary, this month we’re taking a closer look at Second Helpings’ founding in 1998. We recently sat down with Bob Koch, one of Second Helpings’ founders to reflect on his experience during the organization’s earliest days. To hear Bob Koch tell the [...]
On Thursday, June 15, Second Helpings hosted a public birthday party on Monument Circle to celebrate 25 years of serving central Indiana through our food rescue, hunger relief, and culinary job training programs. Flip through the photos below to relive the highlights! Thanks to everyone who made this celebration [...]
I'm excited to introduce Bob Zeronik, our Volunteer of the Month for April! Bob has been a great addition to our amazing team of Meal Delivery Drivers and Companions. We are so happy he chooses Second Helpings as a place to serve. Bob, thanks for your light, kindness, and dedication [...]
About the Hunger Relief Kitchen Coordinator Position This position provides support to the Manager of Hunger Relief in food preparation, directing volunteers and temporary employees and kitchen sanitation. For the full job description, click here. Apply for this position online here. The application deadline is 8:00 AM on Monday, [...]
Have you ever thought about what happens at Second Helpings on a snow day? Even if our building needs to be closed, your support allows Second Helpings to ensure meals will continue to be available...because we know that there is always higher demand for food assistance in the winter, [...]
A big thank you to Shirley Melloh, Second Helpings' Volunteer of the Month for April! Shirley is a Tuesday evening volunteer; she is part of an amazing group of volunteers that serves every Tuesday evening. Shirley has been a great friend to Second Helpings, also volunteering with our Corks [...]
You are invited to participate in the third-annual Gr8 Pasta Push with Second Helpings and WISH-TV 8, June 2-16! In 2021, this community-wide effort provided enough pasta to produce more than 145,600 meals in central Indiana. As you may know, pasta is critical to Second Helpings’ kitchen, where we [...]
We have partnered with our friends at NUVO for another one of their wildly popular Indy Food & Drink Weeks, offering Indy residents a discount on delicious food at some of their favorite, local restaurants. This time we’re celebrating burgers! Indy Burger Week presented by Red Gold Tomatoes is a week-long celebration of [...]
The Hoosier Welshman! If you’ve ever volunteered on a Tuesday, chances are you’ve had the pleasure of conversing with Stephen about one interesting thing or another. He’s quite the character and this Carol Adams Award winner has dedicated over 1,030 hours of his time since 2013 to spreading the [...]
On an ordinary day twenty years ago a group of visionaries and volunteers came together to do something extraordinary – take excess food that might have gone to waste and use it to feed people in need. Their task for the day – prepare a meal for 60 people [...]