Second Harvest Community Food Bank helps feed approximately 10,900 people through our network of over 100 member agencies each week.

According to Hunger in America 2010, a study Second Harvest conducted in partnership with Mathematica Policy Research:

• Of all clients served by Second Harvest 55 percent are under age 18; and 17% of clients are ages 0-5 years old.
• Nearly  60% of the households served by Second Harvest have at least one member that is employed, though the average monthly household income is only $1,080.
• 64 percent of the clients we serve have completed high school and/or attended some type of post-secondary education.
• Nearly 35 percent of the clients we serve have made a choice between paying for food and paying for health care or medicine in the past 12 months.
• Among all clients of Second Harvest, 90% are food insecure, or have limited or uncertain availability of nutritious foods.
• 51% of clients ate less than they felt they should because there was not enough money to buy food during the previous 12 months.

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