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Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana
MISSION STATEMENT:
Second Harvest Food Bank leads the fight against hunger in South Louisiana by providing food access, advocacy, education, and disaster response. Second Harvest provides food and support to 700+ community partners and programs across 23 parishes. Our staff and volunteers distribute the equivalent of more than 32 million meals to 210,000+ people a year. Through our food distribution programs, community kitchen meal service, nutrition education, and public benefits assistance, we are helping to create pathways out of poverty. Every year, Second Harvest secures millions of pounds of food that otherwise would have gone to waste. Our work helps ensure that these meals make it to the dinner tables of thousands of families struggling with hunger in South Louisiana.
Notes:
By September 2005, Second Harvest became the largest food bank in the world’s history, with the help of America’s Second Harvest, now Feeding America, and skilled food bank volunteers from all over the country. Operating initially from a closed Wal-Mart in Baker, LA, then returning to its facility in New Orleans and opening a second facility in Lafayette in 2006, Second Harvest distributed more than 75 million pounds of food over the next two years.
ORGANIZATION DETAILS
Address: 700 Edwards Avenue, Elmwood, Louisiana, 70123 United States
Website: https://no-hunger.org/
Phones:
- 504-734 -1322
TYPE: Food Banks,
Food Pantry,
Hotline
Area Served:
- Regional
Population Served:
- Children
- Disabled
- Families
- Formerly Incarcerated
- Homeless
- Immigrants
- LGBT
- Men
- People of color
- Pregnant Women
- Seniors
- Unemployed
- Women
- Low-income
- Youth
- Veteran
- Refugees
- Infant
- Health Conditions (Cancer/HIV)
Areas of Interest:
- Funding Resources
- Networking with other organizations
- Research / information about food security and anti-hunger
Healthy Foods:
- Community food hub
- Hosts healthy community meals
