On November 1st, Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee activated its emergency SNAP plan to serve 52,000 individuals, representing the most vulnerable population across our communities. To meet this immense and sudden need, Second Harvest began mass food distributions on Monday, November 3rd, throughout Northeast Tennessee.
Second Harvest Needs Your Help
Dedicated volunteers are needed to help with the increased scale of their emergency operations, which include sorting and packing essential food boxes.
Ready to Volunteer? Your help is critical. Please sign up now through the Volunteer United platform: Food Packing for the Region
By volunteering your time, you will directly assist Second Harvest in feeding families and individuals in: Carter, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington, and Unicoi Counties. As Rhonda Chafin, Executive Director, stated: “Let’s come together as a community to support our neighbors. We are asking our community to make donations of Money, Food or Volunteer to alleviate hunger in Northeast Tennessee!”
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee feeds the hungry by securing donations of food from national and local manufacturers, grocers and individuals and redistributing to qualified nonprofit charities and through Food Bank programs that feed the hungry in an eight-county region. Learn more about Second Harvest at netfoodbank.org
Wed, Nov 5 at 8:30am
- Mon, Nov 10 at 8:30am
