Idol Gives Back Foundation
Delivers Truck to Second Harvest
Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA received a mobile food pantry truck from the Idol Gives Back Foundation through a competitive $150,000 grant administered by Feeding America. This new 26-foot refrigerated truck, along with a cash component of the grant, will increase Second Harvest’s capacity to expand our mobile food pantry program.
The new vehicle brings the number of trucks used for Second Harvest's distribution services up to eight. Trucks are used to deliver and pick up food and serve as mobile food pantries. The goal of the program is to provide food assistance to families and individuals in need in rural and underserved communities. Second Harvest partners with churches, community centers, public housing complexes, fire halls and other organizations to plan the distribution of a truckload of food. In order to promote balanced meals, the mobile food pantry typically distributes not only boxed and canned goods, but also bread and baked goods, fresh produce, and frozen and refrigerated foods, such as meat and dairy products.
“We are very grateful to the Idol Gives Back Foundation for this new truck,” said Karen S. Seggi, Executive Director of Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA. “This addition to our fleet will enable Second Harvest to expand our mobile food pantry program and increase the number of site visits to rural areas within our 11-county service area.”
The Idol Gives Back Foundation is a not-for-profit, U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization which raises money and awareness to serve children and their families in need throughout the United States and the rest of the world.
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The Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA is the largest nonprofit food distribution organization in northwest Pennsylvania. We solicit and distribute food to 405 partner organizations, which serve 72,600 individuals in 11 counties.