Marking
22 years of Providing food to hungry people
1986-2008
Programs
Our
largest program is the distribution of food to charitable
food programs directly from our warehouse facility located
in Madison. Over 400 charitable programs in 16 southwestern
Wisconsin counties receive food from the warehouse to distribute
in their local communities. Those counties include Dane,
Columbia, Rock, Jefferson, Sauk, Green, Lafayette, Juneau,
Adams, Monroe, Vernon, Richland, Crawford, Dodge, Iowa and
Grant.
In
addition, we fight hunger through the following programs.
Kids Cafe Program
Kids Cafe is a program of America’s
Second Harvest and is one of the
nation’s largest charitable meal and nutrition education
programs
exclusively for children in need. Second Harvest operates
six Kids
Cafes in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Nutrition
Education
Program. They are located at the Nehemiah Development Corporation,
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County-- Taft and Allied locations,
Goodman Atwood Community Center, Vera Court Neighborhood Center
and Salvation Army Darbo Drive Community Center.
Each Kids Cafe is designed to meet the needs of the children
living in the neighborhood. While no two programs are identical,
each shares a common goal of providing a safe, respectful
environment where youth can receive wholesome meals, nutrition
education, academic and recreational activities. More

Direct Delivery/Drop Site Program
Food
pantries and meal sites in distant counties often do not have
personnel or appropriate vehicles to transport the quantity
and types of food they need from our Madison warehouse.
In 1999, the food bank implemented a program to deliver food
directly to agencies in some counties and in 2002 it added
three drop sites convenient for agency pick-ups. Today over
260 agencies in 16 outlying counties can better serve their
communities with the help of this program, which has grown
550% since inception. An estimated 800,000 pounds of food
will be delivered this year. More
Mobile Pantry
In
August 2003, Second Harvest rolled out the Mobile Pantry Program.
In partnership with a member agency, food from the Second
Harvest warehouse is trucked to a neighborhood site at a prescheduled
time for immediate distribution to residents. The program
provides additional food to those in need and gives Second
Harvest a valuable channel to increase distribution of perishable
food items to ensure that good food will not go to waste.
The Mobile Pantry increased its distribution 42% to over 1
million pounds of food last year and is serving hundreds of
people with each scheduled visit.
BackPack
Program
Backpacks filled with nutritious, easy-to-prepare foods provide
nourishment on long weekends and other out-of-school times
for children considered at risk of hunger. In conjuction
with a school district and a community agency that acquires
food through Second Harvest, backpacks are filled with food
and a teacher discretely hangs it in a child’s locker to be
taken home on the last school day before the break. The child
returns the empty backpack on the next day back at school.
This is Second
Harvest’s newest program to fight child hunger. It is
designed for small town/rural communities and serves the Evansville
and Tomah School Districts.
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