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NALC Food Drive
Posted: 6/24/2010 11:41:48 AM
Letter Carriers across the nation carried more than their usual load of mail on May 8, 2010. Thanks to the generosity of area residents, carriers also collected 120,469 pounds of food at mailboxes along their routes for the Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA. A total of $2,813.05 was also collected to help alleviate hunger in NW PA.
We'd like to thank the letter carriers for carrying more than their usual load of mail and for supporting the mission of Second Harvest. Thanks to the Boy Scouts, the Military and all the volunteers who kindly helped the letter carriers collect food throughout the day. We appreciate the support of the churches, organizations and businesses that provided their buildings and parking lots as collection sites. We'd also like to thank all the vendors and local businesses who so graciously donated trucks to help collect the food or supplied lunch and snacks for our volunteers. And finally, a big
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GEICO Supports Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantries
Posted: 4/16/2010 12:35:31 PM
The GEICO Philanthropic Foundation has made a generous donation of $25,000 to Second Harvest to fund a series of mobile food pantries this year. GEICO also plans to recruit its employees as volunteers at GEICO-sponsored mobile pantries whenever and wherever possible.
The first of the GEICO-sponsored distributions was held on Thursday, February 25, at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God in Clearfield. The site is conducting another five mobile pantries with GEICO funding this year. On March 2, a second site – Faith Bible Church in Curwensville (Clearfield County) – conducted the first of six mobile pantries funded by GEICO. Two other sites – Gethsemane United Methodist Church in Allport (Clearfield County) and the Derrick City Fire Hall in Bradford (McKean County) – are on the April schedule for mobile pantries sponsored by GEICO.
A total of 23 mobile pantries will be funded by GEICO’s donation. Most of the mobile pantries will
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Hunger In America 2010: NW PA Results
Posted: 4/15/2010 3:55:42 PM
In February of this year the Second Harvest Food Bank released results of a hunger study conducted in early 2009. The study was commissioned by Feeding America, the national food bank network that Second Harvest belongs to. This network is the country’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization.
Here are a few key findings:
- An estimated 72,600 different people receive emergency food each year through Second Harvest. This is a 40 percent increase from the last study, which was released in 2006.
- Of the 72,600 people, 30 percent – or 21, 780 – are children under 18 years old; and 11 percent are seniors age 65 and older.
- In any given week, about 20,700 different people receive emergency food assistance through Second Harvest member food pantries, soup kitchens and short-term shelters.
Executive Director Karen S. Seggi announced the results to an audience made up of
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