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Find out how you can help serve a meal at a local shelter or community kitchen.

Avoid wasting food by preparing and serving smaller portions of food. 

Invite friends to a potluck where everyone brings their favorite family recipe and shares stories about the meaning of food in their lives.

Hold a school or community event where admission or discounts are provided when food donations are brought by attendees.

Stay current on all the ways you can continue to help throughout the year. Sign up for Second Harvest's monthly e-newsletter!

Go through your pantry and donate all the items that you haven’t used in the last few months to Second Harvest – if you haven’t eaten it yet, why not give someone who needs it the chance to?

Invite a representative from Second Harvest to speak at your social, educational and professional group meetings to discuss hunger awareness issues.

Energize your book group around a book that focuses on the issues of hunger and poverty.

Encourage your place of worship to take up a special financial offering for hunger.

Host an “Empty Bowls” event where guests can paint ceramic bowls to donate to this year’s 26th Anniversary Empty Bowls Luncheon. Contact Tia Ford, 904.730.8284, tford@WeNourishHope.org, to learn more about making/painting bowls.