By Donna Peace | Corporate Relations Officer
Thank you on behalf of the 85,000 local kids who will receive healthy, fresh food from Second Harvest Food Bank. You’ve made sure kids are free to be kids. Your generous support helped make this our most successful Kids Campaign to date, raising $6.4 million to feed hungry kids in our community.
Your support allows us to partner with schools where the need is greatest! We’re developing Tailored School Solutions to best meet the needs of low-income students and families at high-need schools. Thanks to your support, we are on track to nearly double the number of schools we support. According to one school principal, food assistance from Second Harvest has a significant impact on her students and shared this with us.
“I was surprised because all we had to do was increase the amount of nutritious food we offered to our students, and their academic futures became brighter. We didn’t fully understand the impact of hunger on our students’ academic performance until we saw what our students could achieve when they weren’t hungry anymore.”
Your donations are coming at a critical time. Our Board of Directors has approved an ambitious new 3-year strategic plan with the goal of helping 40% more people. Starting on July 1, 2016, we’ll continue to strengthen our core food banking work—providing more food, more nutritious food, and easier to access food—while also launching an innovative effort to reimagine traditional food banking. For your reference, I’ve attached a one-pager outlining this new strategic plan.
Together, we’ll raise the profile of hunger in our community, as this problem is pervasive but too often hidden, and is one of the most fundamental challenges facing our region today. We believe our new vision, mission, and lofty goals will be realized with the support of corporations, organizations, and individuals like you who are willing to stand with us to provide this most basic of all needs.
Thank you!
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