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Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties

Cindy McCown Vice President of Community Engagement and Policy

Second Harvest Food Bank

SHFB Today – Three Key Facts

• Big!
• Focused on nutrition
• Highly efficient

New Strategic Plan

Vision: A Hunger-Free Community Mission: Lead our community to ensure that anyone who needs a healthy meal can get one.

combining summer feeding with ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES

OPENING PANTRIES

at schools and colleges TARGETED NUTRITION EDUCATION /screening ADDING MEALS

• utside of

school day collaborating with NEW PARTNERS exploring NEW SCHOOL BREAKFAST models

HUNGER & EDUCATION

Sobering Sobering Local Local Da Data ta

47%

choose between paying for

FO O D O R

paying for

E DUCATIO N E XPE NS ES

50%

EAT FOOD PA ST ITS E X PIR ATIO N DATE

35%

WATE R DOW N FO O D & DR INKS

23%

S E LL OR PAW N

personal property

S O THE Y CA N EAT

PERFORM POORLY

• n language

comprehen- sion tests show more hyperactivity/ inattention and POOR MEMORY STRUGGLE to follow directions suffer higher frequency of CHRONIC ILLNESS

Food Insecure Kids

School problems increase with child’s BMI

Are more likely to be

OBESE

FACE DELAYS in social emotional, cognitive and motor development

RESEARCH

LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY

Connecting People to Food

build on best practices across u.s. leverage client- centric research identify new kinds

• f

partners

find “sweet spot”

between efforts to capture food waste and solve hunger

source / distribute food in different forms explore targeted influence and advocacy

Disrupt

• urselves

WHAT’S NEXT?

Opportunities

• Full participation of the all federal nutrition

programs for children – Join our planning efforts!

• Advocate with elected representatives for

system changes and investments

• Investments in providing more healthy food
• Food security screening as part of the medical

records

• Leverage shared goals
• Increased access

Questions