This project is one of our mostpopular volunteer activities. We also received 5,203,344.51 for COVID Relief.Salvage: At the main warehouse of SHFBM in Charlotte, nonperishable foods and non-food items donated from food drives and salvage centers are inspected, sorted, and packaged for distribution to our partner agencies. These gifts enabled the food bank to secure highly nutritous products that are rarely doanted. The Food Bank distributed 70,241,518 pounds of this product to over 8000 partner agencies throughout our 24 county service region of North and South Carolina and to other food banks in the Carolinas in 2019-2020.Purchased: In 201-2020 SHFBM received 2,587,360 in grants and donations restricted for food purchases. Grocery Product Collection and Distribution:Overall Product Distribution: Overall Product Distribution: Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina (SHFBM) received 73,310,231 pounds of grocery and household product from almost 200 local donors (excluding individuals and companies doing food drives), national sources coordinated by Feeding America, USDA Commodities, and purchases in 2019-2020. In 2019-2020 SHFBM distributed 41,755,598 pounds in these categories.
These are often foods that people living in poverty are unable to afford. This program annually saves almost 6 million pounds of food in our service area across 39 agencies in North and South Carolina.Distribution of Produce, Meat, Seafood, and Dairy:SHFBM places a special emphasis on soliciting and distributing highly nutritious foods including produce, meats, dairy and seafood, needed for balanced and healthy diets.
The food is picked up daily and delivered on the same day at no cost to our agencies that feed on-site. To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.ĭistribution of Nutritional Foods Community Food Rescue (CFR):Community Food Rescue gathers and distributes perishable foods such as produce, dairy, restaurant and bakery items that might otherwise be discarded.
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