Making Sure Everyone Can Eat with Emergency Food Boxes

The presence of federal agents in our community means some of our neighbors are afraid to leave their homes to visit the grocery store or food shelf. To make sure people have the food they need right now, Second Harvest Heartland is providing emergency boxes full of pantry staples to partners.

Emergency boxes are distributed either through pick up at food shelves or temporary distribution sites, or through home delivery. They are also easy for volunteers to pick up and distribute to families and individuals discreetly. Each box contains enough food to feed a family of four and includes items like pasta, rice, beans, canned tuna, baking mix, and cooking oil.

Our Brooklyn Park headquarters has set up a dedicated space inside our warehouse where volunteers and staff assemble emergency food boxes — all while keeping our regular Volunteer Center operations humming along. Working closely with our hunger-relief partners and with help from donors, our goal is to provide 50,000 emergency boxes now through March 1.  

These emergency boxes allow Second Harvest Heartland to work with a growing list of food shelves to offer home delivery. We are proud to support them as they work around the clock, in every neighborhood in the metro, to get food to people who don't feel safe going to the food shelf in person.

Everyone deserves to eat. As Minnesota families face impossible barriers to accessing groceries safely, we are committed to ensuring that all of our neighbors have the food they need—no exceptions.