Our Impact on Hunger
Hunger impacts nearly every aspect of life and livelihood. Second Harvest Heartland won’t stop working until every hungry person in Minnesota and western Wisconsin has the food they need to thrive.
A strong safety net for our community
Too many of our neighbors are one flat tire or illness away from facing hunger. Parents skip meals so their kids can eat, seniors skip meals so they can pay for needed medications.
When families face problems like these, we’re the safety net they can depend on to keep food on the table. We’re working with other hunger-relief partners to find new solutions to keep the safety net strong year after year. Together last year we served more than half a million people and helped provide them with more than 105 million meals.
Stabilizing hungry families
What is the impact of having enough food? Food stability means being able to live fully as a productive parent, employee or student, being able to focus on your quality of life without worrying about how to feed yourself or your family.
Strengthening the hunger relief system
Second Harvest Heartland partners with more than a thousand food shelves and hunger-relief programs. We create new partnerships with schools, hospitals and clinics to broaden and deepen our reach across our service area.
provided last year
people served each year
million lbs. of fresh produce
72,000 volunteer hours