Making a food donation to Second Harvest is time and cost efficient:

• EASY CONTACT: Contact Kathy Shuster, inventory coordinator, at 816.364.3663 x 204.
• EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION: Your donation will be quickly distributed to needy people through our member agencies, which are monitored and trained to ensure that donated product does not reenter the marketplace.
• INSTANT FEEDBACK: Your donation will be tracked, documented and receipted.
• LEGAL PROTECTION: Your company is protected from liability by the Good Samaritan Act.

Donating food makes good business sense. Here are just a few reasons:

• TAX DEDUCTION: The 1976 Federal Tax Law (H.R. 10612) permits you to deduct all of the costs of producing, packaging and delivering your products - plus up to 50 percent of the difference between the cost and the fair market value.
• COST SAVINGS: In salvaging food and other products, your company eliminates dumping costs.
• INVENTORY CONTROL: A food donation can help reduce your surplus of hard-to-move inventory, and inventory that can be eaten but not sold.
• COMPANY PROMOTION: Second Harvest promotes our food donors through a variety of communications and marketing materials, from our newsletters and website to event signage and press outreach.
• COMMUNITY GOODWILL: Your support and goodwill will win you the respect of the community.
• PROUD STAFF: Employees feel good about their company's role in making a difference in their community.

Second Harvest accepts anything from cases to truckloads of dry-stored, nonperishable, cooler, or frozen food and nonfood items. Call Second Harvest if your products are:

• Surplus
• Cosmetically damaged
• Mislabeled or unlabeled
• Code-dated
• Discontinued, test-market and private-label brands
• Underweight or overweight items
• Seasonally packaged
• Bulk packed

All donated food items must be:

• In their original, unopened packages
• Within the expiration date on the package
• In plastic jars or containers, not glass
• No homemade food items can be accepted
• Non-food items that are new or in gently used condition only