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About Us
America's Second Harvest of Coastal is a volunteer-driven, charitable hunger relief organization
serving 21 counties in Coastal Georgia. We partner with more than 300 agencies who distribute food
to more than 90,000 low-income hungry people, including 52,000 children and nearly 8,300 seniors.In 2007, Second Harvest secured and distributed more than 5 million pounds of food and grocery products equating to a savings to member agencies of nearly $7.5 million over retail.
How We Work
America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia’s primary function is our warehouse operations. Truckloads of food are donated daily by local and national grocers, businesses, and individuals. Second Harvest inspects and stocks donated items in its 30,000 square foot warehouse. Donations are supplemented with purchased items. Fresh and non-perishable products are then distributed to more than 300 nonprofit agencies in a 21-county service delivery area that includes both urban and rural communities. Our partner agencies include food pantries, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, domestic abuse facilities, senior centers and daycare centers for low-income children.
Our Mission
Our statement of purpose is "Utilizing food and education to improve lives and create a Hunger-Free community. The mission of the food bank is to feed the hungry by distributing nutritious food to nonprofit agencies and at risk elderly and youth, to assist in disaster relief, and work towards long term solutions to hunger and poverty."
Hunger Facts
- 56% of all emergency food requests in American cities come from either children or their parents. (Conference of Mayors, Hunger and Homelessness in America, 12/04)
- 23.3% of all households with children served by the America's Second Harvest network reported that during the previous 12 months, the children in the household were sometimes or often not eating enough because they couldn't afford enough food.(America's Second Harvest National)
- 37% of adults requesting food assistance were employed at the time. (Conference of Mayor, Hunger and Homelessness in America, 12/01)
- 10.7% of Georgia Households are food insecure-more than 900,000 people. (Center on Hunger and Poverty, Brandeis, 2002)
- 1 in 6 Georgia children is at risk of going hungry at some point each month. (Children's Defense Fund, 2002)
- 1 in 5 elderly Georgians lives in poverty or is at extreme risk of living in poverty and more than 6,000 Georgia seniors are on the waiting list to receive Meals on Wheels. (Applied Research Center, 1999)
- 20.16% of the total population of our 21-county service area lives below the poverty level. (US Census, 2002)
- 29% of children in our 21-county service area are below poverty. (US Census, 2002)
- 10.49% of the elderly in our 21-county service area are below poverty. (US Census, 2002)