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Second Harvest Receives Generous Truck Donation from Idol Gives Back Foundation and Feeding America. The 24 ft. truck features multiple storage bays and different temperature zones enabling the Food Bank to safely carry food and facilitates distribution directly from the truck to people needing assistance from the Mobile Food Pantry.
A Squash's Journey: From the Shelf to the Hungry. Join NPR Reporter Pam Fessler as she goes along with Second Harvest of Northeast Tennessee truck drivers and staff to collect and distribute food donations in our region. This national story gives a play by play of the Food Bank process from start to finish. click here.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee secures food donations and distributes to nonprofit charities in an eight county region of Northeast Tennessee. The Food Bank is a 501 c(3)non-profit organization located in Gray, Tennessee and a member of Feeding America, the Nation's Food Bank network. In 2011 the Food Bank distributed over 8 million pounds of food to average of 36,000 individuals each month.