Annual Report 2017-2018

Celebrating 40 Years of Feeding Hope

Letter From the President and CEOHunger isn’t convenient. People who need food assistance often live in rural areas or urban food deserts. Some can’t afford cars. Others can’t afford gas. Many live far from bus stops. Some are housebound due to disabilities or illness.

We’ve talked to clients like Lisa, who lives more than 30 minutes from the nearest grocery store. “Coming into town for groceries is a long drive that eats up a lot of gas: We barely make it,” said Lisa, who has a teenage son and 9-year-old daughter.

These are diffi cult logistical burdens for people who are already on the brink. So during the past year, Second Harvest has focused on meeting our clients where they are.

We launched The Produce Truck, which brings fresh fruit, vegetables, milk, and bread to Davidson County’s most food-insecure neighborhoods and senior towers. We laid the groundwork for a Southern Branch in Rutherford County and a Western Branch in Benton County – and we’re actively seeking more Partner Agencies in those areas, all to better serve our clients outside the Nashville metro area.

With additional food storage space at our branches, and a recently expanded refrigerated space that provides volunteers the opportunity to sort fresh produce, we now have more capacity to rescue perfectly good food that’s otherwise destined for landfi lls.

Thanks to you – our partners in this work – we have never been better prepared to feed hungry people in Middle Tennessee.

When I started here in 1988, Second Harvest distributed 3 million pounds of food annually from a small leased facility on the east side of town. In FY18, we distributed 31 million pounds of food and have become the largest hunger-relief organization in the state. But our work is far from fi nished.

We wouldn’t exist without you. With each dollar donated, each volunteer hour clocked, you’re creating a better future for Tennessee.

Thank you for your continued belief in our mission.

Jaynee K. DayPresident & CEO

AD HOC MEMBERSylvia Roberts

BOARD OF DIRECTORSJonathan Flack

Board Chair

Lucia FolkBoard Vice Chair

Gabriela LiraBoard Secretary

Shawn WilliamsBoard Treasurer

Jaynee K. DayPresident & CEO

Jeffrey D. WarnePast Board Chair

BOARD MEMBERSGreg Allen

Scott Bowers Brian BowmanDavid Bradley

Suzanne BuchananJohn Bumpus

Jim Burton Melissa Eads

Bruce EsworthyAndy Flatt

Dave FulmerLisa Gardi

Dennis GeorgatosAmy Johnston-Little

Bill KruegerPhil Pacsi

Lyn Plantinga Paul Robinson

Tony Rose Laquita Stribling

David Taylor Scott Turner

Mimi VaughnKen WatkinsJohn West

AT-RISK AFTERSCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMSecond Harvest sponsors 15 At-Risk Afterschool programs in Middle Tennessee and provided 5,500 meals each month to participating children. The program runs for 10 months during the school year, and food costs are reimbursed through the Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).

BACKPACK PROGRAMThe BackPack Program provides easy-to-prepare food for at-risk children on weekends and during school breaks when other resources are not available. More than 6,400 children received BackPacks weekly.

PARTNER AGENCIESSecond Harvest distributes food and other products to 460 community Partner Agencies in Middle and West Tennessee. Partners include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, childcare facilities, senior centers, group homes, and enrichment centers.

EMERGENCY FOOD BOX PROGRAMThe Emergency Food Box Program provides food assistance to individuals and families on an urgent-need basis through 16 sites in Davidson County. Nearly 1 million meals were provided through emergency food boxes, which include two to three days of staple food items based on the number of people in the household.

FARM TO FAMILIESThe Farm to Families Program engages farmers, community volunteers, and Partner Agencies to supply locally grown, healthy, and nutritious produce to those in need, ensuring less food goes to waste.

KIDS CAFEKids Cafe provides free meals, snacks, and nutrition education to at-risk children through a variety of community programs during the school year and in the summer months. Participating children received about 100,000 meals and snacks.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE’S TABLE (GROCERY RESCUE)Second Harvest rescues, sorts, and distributes frozen meat, dairy, produce, and dry groceries from 220 grocery stores and food donors. Middle Tennessee’s Table rescued over 9 million pounds of food.

MOBILE PANTRYSecond Harvest coordinates large-scale, one-day distributions with Partner Agencies to provide food directly to individuals and families in need. A typical Mobile Pantry provides a family with one to two weeks of groceries. More than 184,000 individuals received assistance through this program.

THE PRODUCE TRUCK Five days a week, The Produce Truck brings fresh vegetables, fruits, and other perishable items to food-insecure neighborhoods in Davidson County. Perishable items are set out like a mini farmers’ market at each stop. On average, 1,200 households received more than 27,000 pounds of food each week.

PROJECT PRESERVE®Project Preserve® leverages economies of scale and manufacturing and logistics expertise to provide a comprehensive co-op and manufacturing program for Partner Agencies and the Feeding America food bank network. This operation produces boil-in-a-bag and tray-pack meals and assembles custom disaster relief and feeding program products.

SCHOOL FOOD PANTRY PROGRAMThe School Food Pantry Program increases food access for schoolchildren and their families. School-based pantries may have a permanent residence within a

school or may operate through mobile distribution where food is brought to the school campus and distributed each month. More than 150,000 meals were provided through 29 sites.

SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAMThe Senior Nutrition Program provides low-income seniors with food resources that are nutritious, easy to prepare, and shelf stable. The “senior packs” are distributed weekly or monthly depending on our Partner Agency needs.

SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM (SFSP)Second Harvest sponsors the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) at sites throughout Middle Tennessee each summer. Through this program, we provided nearly 27,000 breakfasts and lunches to ensure that low-income children continued to receive nutritious meals when school was not in session.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACHSecond Harvest offers SNAP outreach and application assistance at our Emergency Food Box sites, Mobile Pantry distributions, and Partner Agency locations. We share information about the benefi ts and provide prescreening for people who may qualify.

FEEDING PROGRAMS

Sandra More than most, Sandra knows how costly fresh produce and dairy are at the store. She’s currently raising her three grandsons, all under the age of 4, and says they go through a gallon of milk every other day. The boys love fresh fruit, but she often can’t afford it with limited resources. To ensure the boys have the nutritious food they need to grow, Sandra goes to the Second Harvest Perishable Distributions at Helping Hands of Humphreys County. “Raising three little boys is a handful in itself,” Sandra says. “This is just a blessing.”

Catherine & Rod “My kids probably haven’t had fresh fruit in over a year,” Catherine says gratefully while in front of The Produce Truck outside of Catholic Charites in Nashville. Her husband Rod had to quit his job after being diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, and it forced the couple and their three children to live out of their two-door sedan. They’re currently looking for affordable housing and applying for SNAP, but the process takes time. While they wait, the entire family has weekly access to fresh, nutritious food from Second Harvest.

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Linda Linda and her husband live and work in West Tennessee, where they raised their four children, all of whom still live nearby. When her husband lost his job, Linda’s sole income barely covered their bills––let alone groceries. Unsure how they would get by, Linda learned about the Second Harvest Mobile Pantry hosted at New Beginnings Church of God in Big Sandy. There, Linda receives a few weeks’ worth of groceries for her and her husband. “You help not only me, but everyone else in the community,” Linda says.

TracyTracy had been homeless for a full year when he found the WELLspring Program at Greenhouse Ministries, a Second Harvest Partner Agency in Murfreesboro. There, he gained skills, earned his minister’s license, found work, and had regular access to food through the staple food pantry and Mobile Pantry provided by Second Harvest. “This means the world to me,” Tracy says.

“Coming from where I was to being able to have my own room and a stove to cook on…You have to see how much of a blessing you are to people like myself. I’m continuously grateful.”

The At-Risk Afterschool Meal Program at Coleman Community Center, a Second Harvest Partner Agency in Nashville, provides children like Jayden with a healthy meal and a safe place to do homework or play when the school day is over.

“This may be the last meal they have before school the next day,” says Pam, the program director. She says that after they eat, the kids’ behavior improves and they can focus better. The program serves about 65 children ages 6 to 14 throughout the school year.

“The kids here really need it and are very appreciative of everything they get,” Pam says.

The At-Risk Afterschool Meal

THEN:In 1978, Second Harvest began inside the basement of the Carter Lawrence School on Edgehill Avenue.

NOW:From our three distribution centers in Nashville, Smyrna, and Camden, we serve 46 counties in Middle and West Tennessee.

THEN:During that fi rst year, we distributed 160,000 pounds of emergency food to 75 Partner Agencies across Nashville.

NOW:We distribute nearly 31 million pounds of food annually to 460 Partner Agencies across Middle Tennessee. That’s equal to 28 million meals!

THEN:The Emergency Food Box Program was our founding program, and we distributed 2,700 boxes of food through it in 1979.

NOW:Last year, we distributed almost 40,000 Emergency Food Boxes to those in need in Davidson County.

THEN:Kids Cafe began in 1992 with a $10,000 gift from a single donor.

NOW:Twenty-fi ve years later, we provide nearly 155,000 meals and snacks to children through Kids Cafe and At-Risk Afterschool Meal Program sites.

THEN:We started with a small group of dedicated volunteers to help get our programs off the ground.

NOW:We recently completed construction of a Volunteer Engagement Center to accommodate our many volunteers. Last year, 36,600 volunteers donated over 91,500 hours of service, valued at $2.3 million!

Then & Now:A lot has changed over the years, but one thing hasn’t: our mission to feed hungry people and work to solve hunger issues in our community.

1991 With help from Vietti Foods, canned tomato soup was distributed to the Feeding America network and Second Harvest’s Partner Agencies. This effort marked the birth of the food bank’s award-winning Project Preserve program, which converts perishable foods into nutritious, long-lasting food products.

40 Years of Feeding Hope

1978 More than 30 community partners worked with leadership from the Nashville Mayor’s Offi ce, MANNA, and the Metro Action Commission to form the Nashville Coalition for Food Distribution, which soon became Second Harvest.

1985 To host the growing number of volunteers and perishable food donations, Second Harvest moved into a building on Ambrose Avenue.

2012 Continued generous donations of food, money, and time from the community enabled Second Harvest to launch the School Food Pantry program, providing food to children and families right at school.

2002 With donations and volunteers increasing each year, Second Harvest was able to distribute 10 million pounds of food from its new location at 331 Great Circle Road in 2002. In 2004, the food bank added nine counties from West Tennessee to its service area, bringing the total to 46 counties.

2016 Second Harvest launched the Tomato Project, a unique collaboration between farmers, food distributors, and the food bank’s own Project Preserve Cook-Chill facility. This program produces marinara sauce from tomatoes that are not marketable but still healthy and delicious, thus reducing food waste.

2018 Second Harvest opened branch locations in Camden and Smyrna to better serve Western and Southern counties. In the 2017-18 fi scal year, 600,000 pounds of food were distributed each week!

Since 1978, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee has been a vehicle for its funders, partners, and volunteers to make a meaningful impact on hunger in the community.

Volunteers have always been at the heart of what we do.

1992 Bradley Eskind was heartbroken when he heard children were breaking into a Georgia food bank to have a meal. It inspired him to donate $10,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank to start a local Kids Cafe program to provide free meals, snacks, and nutrition information to at-risk children.

the food bank’s award-winning Project Preserve program, which converts perishable foods into nutritious, long-lasting food products.

Kids Cafe program to provide free meals, snacks, and nutrition information to at-risk children.

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7,778children received healthy meals

and snacks through our Kids Cafe and BackPack Programs

244MOBILE

PANTRIES

28 million nutritious meals provided to our neighbors in need

9 millionpounds of fresh produce provided to those who

need it most

96¢ of every dollardonated goes directly to feeding programs 600,000

pounds of food distributed each week

Nacarato FamilyDistribution CenterSmyrna, TN

Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TennesseeNashville, TN

Ray Smith Family Distribution CenterCamden, TN

91,545 volunteer hours

generously donated

YEAR IN REVIEW

BEDFORD 10 5,690 2,360 533,136

BENTON 4 2,450 750 282,835

CANNON 1 1,700 580 126,219

CARROLL 7 4,410 1,300 369,183

CHEATHAM 6 4,040 1,650 210,749

CHESTER 3 2,400 760 203,674

CLAY 2 1,200 360 114,931

COFFEE 13 6,660 2,620 509,915

DAVIDSON 145 103,900 27,500 6,869,749

DECATUR 3 1,690 590 238,099

DEKALB 5 2,690 1,020 295,631

DICKSON 7 6,210 2,360 375,982

FRANKLIN 5 5,150 1,660 300,280

GIBSON 10 7,840 2,660 626,541

GILES 6 3,920 1,160 489,896

HARDIN 6 3,750 1,240 426,961

HENDERSON 5 4,370 1,590 299,167

HENRY 5 4,700 1,550 366,299

HICKMAN 3 3,430 1,200 362,050

HOUSTON 3 1,230 470 153,817

HUMPHREYS 4 2,450 870 333,833

JACKSON 2 1,800 600 582,903

LAWRENCE 8 5,760 2,390 490,363

LEWIS 3 1,650 610 867,162

LINCOLN 6 4,370 1,560 277,727

MACON 5 2,790 1,110 241,730

MARSHALL 5 3,840 1,450 278,192

MAURY 17 10,880 3,800 931,739

MONTGOMERY 16 27,430 9,730 1,989,638

MOORE 1 640 230 86,538

OVERTON 7 2,940 1,130 268,068

PERRY 2 1,260 470 242,344

PICKETT 1 630 210 40,992

PUTNAM 20 11,170 3,440 765,696

ROBERTSON 10 6,880 2,860 552,010

RUTHERFORD 19 34,810 11,840 2,372,612

SMITH 1 2,330 880 213,738

STEWART 7 1,840 670 290,336

SUMNER 20 17,550 6,690 1,279,381

TROUSDALE 4 1,010 310 71,847

WARREN 5 5,140 2,120 269,271

WAYNE 4 2,330 720 223,387

WEAKLEY 4 5,160 1,420 300,654

WHITE 7 3,350 1,220 601,405

WILLIAMSON 13 14,450 7,050 1,021,153

WILSON 20 12,130 4,770 716,984

TOTALS 460 362,020 121,530 28,464,815

Partner Agencies

Food-Insecure Individuals

Food-Insecure Children Total Meals Provided

Food insecurity data from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap 2018 study.

Partner Agencies

Food-Insecure Individuals

Food-Insecure Children Total Meals Provided

Proudly Serving 46 Counties in Middle and West TennesseeSecond Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee works with a network of 460

dedicated Partner Agencies to distribute food directly to those in need.

OUR SERVICE AREA

How We Work

Where It All StartsOur food comes from a variety of sources. We source donated and surplus food from grocery stores, farms, manufacturers, distributors, and individuals. We then bring the food to one of our three facilities where it’s inspected and sorted by volunteers, then safely stored for distribution.

What We Do In addition to accepting surplus food, we also raise funds and write grants to buy food at bulk prices, fund feeding programs, and cover operation costs. Storing and delivering food safely is a complex undertaking, requiring warehouse space, refrigerated trucks, fuel, wages for drivers, and so much more.

Why We’re IndispensableMassive quantities of food get dumped into landfills, yet 1 in 8 Middle Tennesseans is at risk of hunger. This is partially a logistics problem. Thanks to our donors and volunteers, we have the space and the manpower to manage large shipments, break them into smaller units, and send them at the right time and in the right quantity to our network of Partner Agencies across 46 counties.

Where It GoesOur Partner Agencies include afterschool programs, soup kitchens, senior centers, and other nonprofits that provide food to hungry people. Each community agency has unique needs. We send them as much food as they can safely store and the right types of foods to keep their clients healthy and happy. Together, we’re fighting hunger and feeding hope.

PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Totals

Donated food $37,977,725 - 37,977,725

Contributions 8,792,406 2,032,516 10,824,922

Government grants 3,498,184 - 3,498,184

Shared maintenance fees 561,619 - 561,619

Culinary arts center 89,713 - 89,713

Special events and activities 858,231 - 858,231

Less: direct benefits to donors (180,914) - (180,914)

Investment income 209,363 - 209,363

Agency transportation reimbursement 223,547 - 223,547

Other income 193,164 - 193,164

Net assets released in satisfaction of program restrictions 5,811,949 (5,811,949) -

TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE 58,034,987 (3,779,433) 54,255,554

REVENUE - PROJECT PRESERVE® PROGRAM Sales to out-of-area network agencies, net of discount 35,149,157 - 35,149,157

Sales to local agencies 2,112,717 - 2,112,717

Donated food and services 225,114 - 225,114

Total revenue - Project Preserve® Program 37,486,988 - 37,486,988

Less direct costs and expenses - Project Preserve® Program (35,569,338) - (35,569,338)

Gross profit from Project Preserve® Program 1,917,650 - 1,917,650

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 59,952,637 (3,779,433) 56,173,204

EXPENSESProgram services

Emergency Food Box 4,442,578 - 4,442,578

Community food partners 43,333,967 - 43,333,967

Children’s programs 2,015,446 - 2,015,446

Culinary arts center 338,785 - 338,785

Total program services 50,130,776 - 50,130,776

Supporting services

Management and general 940,252 - 940,252

Fundraising 2,639,327 - 2,639,327

Total supporting services 3,579,579 - 3,579,579

TOTAL EXPENSES 53,710,355 - 53,710,355

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS 6,242,282 (3,779,433) 2,462,849

NET ASSETS - BEGINNING OF YEAR 12,681,264 6,456,912 19,138,176

NET ASSETS - END OF YEAR $18,923,546 $2,677,479 $21,601,025 Donated Food67.6%

Financial Contributions

20.5%Grants

6.2%Social

Enterprise

3.4%Other

2.3%

Where Our Resources Come From

53%Individuals

11%Foundations

22%Corporations

14%Government/Civic/

Religious

Statement of Activitiesfor the year ended June 30, 2018

Where Our Funding Comes From

Where Our Food GoesWhere Our Food Comes From

8%GOVERNMENT

HUNGER RELIEFPROGRAMS

18%PURCHASED

28%MIDDLE

TENNESSEE’S TABLE(GROCERY RESCUE)

4%FOOD DRIVES

42%DONATED

3%CHILDREN’S

FEEDING

75%PARTNERAGENCIES

5.5%EMERGENCY FOOD

BOX PROGRAM

16.5%MOBILE PANTRIES

OUR RESOURCES OUR FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Learn more at secondharvestmidtn.org

Second Harvest Food Bankof Middle Tennessee331 Great Circle RoadNashville, TN 37228secondharvestmidtn.org

Our MissionTo feed hungry people and work to solve hunger issues in our community.

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