For more than 40 years, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties has been fighting to end local hunger

For more than 40 years, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties has been fighting to end local hunger. The phenomenal non-profit offers an array of programs, such as Family Harvest, which “provides supplemental, nutritious food every month to low-income families with minor dependents”; and Operation Brown Bag, which “provides low-income seniors (age 60 and above) and disabled individuals (age 55 and above) a weekly bag of groceries,” among other excellent programs.

From July 2014 to June 2015, Second Harvest “distributed more than one million pounds of nutritious food each week to low-income people in need,” according to the organization’s website. Second Harvest collaborates with more than 300 partner non-profits to help provide food to those in need throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Second Harvest also operates a multilingual toll-free hotline ( ) to connect callers to food programs in their neighborhoods.

Organizations like Second Harvest Food Bank help make the Bay Area a wonderful place to live and work. Donate now.