![]() ![]() Nutritious food and child-friendly snacks are given in a backpack or other carrier to selected children to take home twice a month. * Food for Kids: This is a collaborative effort between the Food Bank and area schools to provide food to children who may have little or nothing to eat during the weekend or school vacations. Through partnerships with after-school programs and community organizations ten cafes have been established to date. * Kid’s Cafe: Nutritious snacks, meals and nutrition education are provided to children at-risk for hunger and malnutrition. ![]() Since 1999 more than two million pounds of food has not been rescued and used to help people in-need. * Second Helpings: Prepared food that has not been served to the public is collected from restaurants, caterers, grocery stores, and other food vendors then redistributed to agencies providing on-site feeding programs. These items are then given to those in need through food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters and other non-profits feeding organizations. Those programs are: * Food Bank Warehouse: Agencies obtain food and grocery products from the Food Bank warehouse. Through MealConnect, food that previously might have gone to waste- such as a small load of lean meat from a local butcher-is recovered by one of the food bank’s member-food pantries or meal programs and is immediately directed to families in need.Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee operates various programs to distribute food and grocery products through partner agencies. When a food pantry located a couple miles away from the donor can pick up the product, it saves valuable food bank resources and the need for expensive transportation. MealConnect enables food banks to easily oversee the relationships, improve data management and eliminate barriers to food rescue. Those who are interested in being Food Rescue Drivers can visit or call Rene Gallardo at 423.279.0430 EXT.This will help increase food recovery in the community and get the food to those in need. Second Harvest provides the materials to store donated items in a food-safe manner as well as provide in-person training for all volunteers in the program. The volunteers will use their vehicles to pick up items and drop them off at a local pantry or hot meal site from our community partners. MealConnect depends on local Food Recovery volunteers.To encourage companies and organizations to donate healthy food that would otherwise go to waste, they are protected from criminal and civil liability under the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. Millions of pound of food and groceries go to waste each year.Donors interested in donating can visit to donate today! Donations made through MealConnect are tax-deductible. ![]() By connecting more donors with food pantries and meal programs, Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee will prevent more food waste and help end hunger for thousands of people in Northeast Tennessee.Instead of being discarded, Feeding America’s food rescue tech platform, MealConnect, helps divert that food so it can instead reach struggling families. As restaurants and grocery stores offer more fresh, healthy options and look for ways to conserve the environment, Feeding America is testing new methods to rescue that food when it’s in danger of going to waste. ![]() MealConnect IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE wALMART fOUNDATION AND gENERAL mILLS Through a partnership with fEEDING AMERICA. This technology will help reduce food waste, benefit the environment and put more food on the tables of families and individuals facing hunger in Northeast Tennessee. Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee is excited to announce the launch of MealConnect, an innovative technology platform that will allow restaurants and businesses to donate their surplus food to local nonprofits instead of going to waste. ![]()
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