Who We Serve

Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC serves as a supplemental source of donated food for more than 390 non-profit partner agencies that provide food to the hungry and others in need through more than 650 programs across 18 counties, from Boone to Burlington.

Partner agency programs include: emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, rescue missions, halfway houses, domestic violence shelters, group homes, low-income day care centers, food box delivery programs, Meals-On-Wheels, Kids Cafes, and congregate feeding programs for seniors and children.

Each year, Second Harvest Food Banks serves more than 134,000 different individuals in need through its partner agencies that provide emergency food assistance. More than one third of those served are children; many are seniors.

Childhood Hunger
Children are especially vulnerable to issues of hunger and poverty. Nearly 81,500 children across Northwest NC live in poverty and are at risk of hunger. In the early 1990's, Second Harvest Food Bank launched it's first Kids Cafe aimed at alleviating childhood hunger in urban communitites. A national program of America's Second Harvest feeding hungry children locally, Kids Cafes provide an evening meal, tutoring and enrichment activities three evenings a week throughout the year in a safe and nuturing environment.

Today, Second Harvest Food Bank operates 10 Kids Cafe sites in collaboration with various community partners, and has also launched the BackPack Program to address childhood hunger in rural communities. Another program of America's Second Harvest, BackPack sites provide children at risk of hunger with a backpack full of nutritious, child-friendly food to take home over the weekends during the school year.

Click here for more information about our efforts to turn the tables on childhood hunger, and our newest program designed to "teach a man to fish" - the Triad Community Kitchen Program.