Tales from the Table: Celebrating 2,000-hour Volunteers

During the cold winter months, people often want to stay bundled inside with blankets and hot chocolate. Second Helpings keeps pumping out and delivering meals to partner agencies during the most necessary time of year, and we couldn’t do it without our devoted, amazing volunteers. Here is the list [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:43:11-04:00December 19th, 2016|

Tales from the Table: A volunteer’s story

The mission of Second Helpings is to transform lives through the power of food. While this regularly applies to rescuing food, feeding the hungry, and teaching job skills to unemployed or underemployed adults, it also relates to special cases. A volunteer is a person who willingly gives their time [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:34:04-04:00December 10th, 2016|

Tales from the Table: Cathedral Kitchen

Started as an elementary school in 1908, Cathedral Kitchen has undergone many transformations to become the haven it is today. It began its feeding of the poor during a critical time in American history in 1928 on the campus of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral. During the Great Depression [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:29:08-04:00December 6th, 2016|

Mike Pence visits Second Helpings hunger relief kitchen

This morning we were honored to have Governor and Mrs. Pence working in our Hunger Relief kitchen alongside our Wednesday volunteers. Second Helpings has always been of our community, for our community. It is a place where people of all faiths, ideologies, and walks of life are welcomed and [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:26:14-04:00November 23rd, 2016|

Tales from the Table: Nicholai Shaver

Did you see a painter on Prospect Street, battling the wind and rain to capture the Tonic Ball presented by Eskenazi Health festivities on Friday? As a kid, Nicholai Shaver discovered a passion and a talent for drawing. Continuing on through school at the Herron School of Art and Design, [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:21:44-04:00November 20th, 2016|

Tales from the Table: Matt Mays

The mystery behind the magic. Tonic Ball is a special event, created fifteen years ago by a group of forward thinking Indianapolis individuals who sought to make a difference in the community by doing what they loved – playing music. Every November, local bands converge on Fountain Square to [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:15:35-04:00November 18th, 2016|

Tales from the Table: Tonic Ball love story

At Second Helpings, stories abound. Whether it’s an agency in need of food that eases the financial burden, or a volunteer who devotes hundreds of thousands of hours of time and energy, or a graduate who has turned his/her life around, there is never a shortage of stories. However, [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:13:35-04:00November 6th, 2016|

Tales from the Table: Ken Hall

Seven years ago, BMO Harris Bank began providing banking services to Second Helpings, and Second Helpings became a permanent fixture in Ken Hall’s life. Learning about Second Helpings through his job, Ken began to help with the culinary job training class, teaching them basic banking and financial literacy skills. Through [...]

By |2019-07-30T16:08:01-04:00October 23rd, 2016|