The mission of America's Second Harvest of South Georgia, Inc. is to end hunger in South Georgia.
To create a means to easily and affordably access food for every person in South Georgia,
To feed children and provide a safe environment for children to grow and learn,
To provide the means to rescue and safely store all donated excess food in our region, and
To ensure that every community that relies on the services of America's Second Harvest of South Georgia, Inc. is adequately assisted in the fight against hunger.
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America's Second Harvest Quick Fact Sheet:
America's Second Harvest is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. The America's Second Harvest mission is to feed hungry people by soliciting and distributing food and grocery products through a nationwide network of certified affiliate food banks and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to the problem of hunger in America.
In 1999, the Chronicle of Philanthropy calculated an efficiency rating for America's Second Harvest of 99.3% - the highest among the nation's charities. 99.3% of all product and
money donations received by America's Second Harvest go directly towards feeding hungry people.
Operations
The America's Second Harvest network of over 200 regional food banks serves all 50 states and Puerto Rico by distributing food and grocery products to approximately 50,000 local charitable hunger-relief agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, Kids Cafes, and other organizations that provide emergency food assistance.
Donations
America's Second Harvest works with more than 500 national grocery and food service companies (food growers, processors, manufacturers, distributors and retailers) to secure surplus food and grocery products. The list, which reads like a "Who's Who" in corporate America, includes such donors as Kraft Foods, Inc., General Mills, Inc., Nabisco, Inc., The Procter & Gamble Company, Kellogg Company, The Pillsbury Company, ConAgra, and hundreds more.
Funding
America's Second Harvest depends entirely on the support of individuals, corporations and charitable foundations. For every $1 received, Second Harvest distributes 34 pounds of food and grocery products to network food banks.
History
America's Second Harvest was founded in 1979. In it's first year, the organization distributed 2.5 million pounds of food through a network of 13 food banks. The America's Second Harvest network now constitutes nearly 200 regional food banks that annually distribute one billion pounds of donated food and grocery products, providing food assistance to more than 26 million hungry Americans, including eight million children and four million seniors.
Hunger
America's Second Harvest defines hunger as the inability to purchase enough food to meet basic nutritional needs. Hunger does not discriminate on the basis of age, race or sex. It affects the elderly, the unemployed, the disabled, the homeless, the working poor and victims of natural disaster. America's Second Harvest released the most comprehensive research study on emergency food providers and recipients ever undertaken Hunger' 1997: The Faces & Facts provides thorough data and analysis on the nonprofit charitable sector's response to hunger Key findings of this study include: of the 26 million Americans served each year by the America's Second Harvest network, 39% are from households with working individuals, 62% are female, 38% are children (17 and under), and 16% are seniors (over 65).
For more information:
To learn more about America's Second Harvest and how to help fight domestic hunger, please visit our web site, http://www.secondharvest.org/, of call 1-800-532-FOOD.
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