JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The ArenaBowl XXIV Champion Jacksonville Sharks announced Friday that the team will hold a free preseason benefit scrimmage for the second consecutive year in support of Second Harvest North Florida. This year, the Sharks will take on the New Orleans VooDoo at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, on Sea Best Field at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.
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With the Republican Presidential race casting a national spotlight on the Sunshine State in recent weeks, the issue of hunger and government assistance programs was placed front and center for Florida voters.
Second Harvest North Florida was featured in two national media opportunities as the result of the candidates’ travels through north Florida. The Huffington Post published a story on Saturday, Jan. 28, while CNN featured Second Harvest during a live segment on its...
Food is the first need for each of us – and yet so many in north Florida are going without regular meals each day. The mission of Second Harvest North Florida is to end hunger across the 17 counties it serves and reach the more than 342,000 individuals who wake up each morning feeling the effects of food insecurity. More than 117,000 of those are children.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Second Harvest North Florida helped deliver Christmas cheer to the residents of Mondex – a small unincorporated Flagler County community near Bunnell – on Wednesday, Dec. 21. The special holiday treat came in the form of clean drinking water, something the community hasn’t enjoyed in months. Each household received eight cases of water on the first distribution day, with the promise of more to come in the weeks ahead.
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Jacksonville, Fla. – In the spirit of the season of giving, the Jacksonville Jaguars organization, on behalf of its Touchdown Club Members, donated $15,000 to Second Harvest North Florida. Additionally, team owners Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver made a personal donation to Second Harvest of $12,500 for a total cash contribution of $27,500 to provide holiday meals for less fortunate families and senior citizens. Second Harvest is securing the food and volunteers to...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - This week, the Community Safety Net Fund at The Community Foundation awarded more than $1 million in grants to 13 area organizations that provide basic services to people in need.
Included in the groups receiving funds was Second Harvest North Florida, which benefited from $110,400 to increase food distribution by purchasing a new refrigerated box truck.
This marks the third year that the community's leading philanthropic organizations —...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The final numbers have been recorded from the First Coast News 2011 Hero Central Food Drive, presented by Publix, and the generosity of individuals throughout north Florida once again will help to feed thousands of families in need on the First Coast during the holidays.
More than 21,000...
On Friday, Nov. 18, Second Harvest North Florida will teamed up with Black Diamond Performance Reporting and other local volunteer groups to distribute 2,500 ready-to-prepare Thanksgiving dinners to low-income families in Jacksonville.
The three-hour distribution took place at EverBank Field in Parking Lot E, beginning at 9 a.m. and concluded...
JACKSONVILLE – Lift Up America and the Jacksonville Jaguars are teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc. to tackle one of Jacksonville’s most pressing issues -- hunger. Jacksonville Jaguars players were on hand Wednesday to help unload and distribute the 30,000 pounds of protein donated by Tyson. Second Harvest will distribute the food to more than 30 agencies throughout the Jacksonville area.
The donation event was held at EverBank Field at 4 p.m., followed by a news...
More than 2,000 one-of-a-kind ceramic bowls have been created around the First Coast in preparation for the 27th Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon benefiting Second Harvest North Florida. The luncheon is set for Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, and the ‘firing’ of the bowls is just one of many preparations already underway.
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