Second Harvest Food Bank
8 reviews
Neighborhood: Financial District
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9 Reviews for Second Harvest Food Bank
With the price of food and gasoline climbing at an alarming rate, people where I work can't afford to feed their families.
Second Harvest Food Bank makes it possible for some to continue to thrive in time when many are questioning how to make the next paycheck stretch without bouncing back and smacking them in the face like an old, crunchy rubber band.
Let's hear it for the volunteers!
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Nice to have found this through yelp.com on a "what's near" search - I'll be volunteering time on a regular basis and bringing in my extra produce this summer! Great - into the ground with the extra tomato seedlings that popped.
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I feel a donation of time far exceeds the value of a financial donation. This is a great organization. I try to volunteer at least a couple hours a month. I highly recommend you check them out and donate some time. They need our help.
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Came here with the team for our quarterly offsite and scooped biscottis into plastic bags for two hours. Don't think I'll ever eat another biscotti for the rest of my life (no, I didn't even try one even though we were encouraged to), however...
This is an incredible organization with an incredible mission. Made me extremely grateful this holiday season that I never go starving (except when I'm trying to lose 5 pounds).
They need more volunteers. Spread the word...
Located in a nondescript industrial park at the end of Bing Street in San Carlos is where you will find Second Harvest Food Bank. This place is amazing for the service they provide to the local community.
My friends and I did a volunteer project with Hands on Bay Area for their monthly food sorting which was a blast. We sorted tomatoes and biscotti. The later which I was able to take a little home to "test for poison" if you will.
I've been a member of Hands on Bay Area (HOBA) for many years now and this is one of my favorite volunteer activities. Not only is it only 2 hours on a Weds or Sat, but it's very interactive and social. After a long day's work, it's nice to roll up the sleeves and get to work. Usually we sort all those barrels of food that come in into their respective piles (soups, meal in a can, tuna, pasta, mixed, etc) but sometimes local farmers will donate produce and we go through these huge bins of tomatoes, apples, other produce. You never know what they will have you do in their warehouse in San Carlos. It's for people of all ages and the energy of the workers and volunteers is always great. If you have a few hours, go and give back to the community. And as a bonus, it's located across the street from the Tesla car corporate? offices, so maybe you will see them testing out on of those environmentally friendly babies while you are there!
Our team and secretary decided to pick this organization for our team to volunteer for the Month of Service project. It was a very rewarding experience, lending a hand to help sort and process food donations for families in need. We spent 1 hour 15 mins and packing away 8 huge containers of apples and 6 containers of Nabisco products, abt 11000 pounds of food.
You can volunteer as an invidual in the day time or evening hours or as an organization and have your teams out there. This organization feeds about 42000 people in the area and their other location in San Jose feeds about 120000 ppl. Definitely a great and fun way to contribute.
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As selfish as I may APPEAR to be (have you SEEN my house?! It's like, overflowing with my stuff), in actuality I really love giving things to people (LOL!!!!!!) and helping others as much as possible. So nearing the end of December, my friend Kenny was putting together a local show at the Oddstad Gallery in Redwood City (I reviewed it, FYI.. hinthint) and I had the BRILLIANT idea to ask for food donations at the door. It went like this: you could pay $7 to get in, or $5 if you brought some non-perishable food items. COOL, HUH?! I thought that nobody would bring SHIT. I mean, I have pretty low expectations for my fellow humans, so I was just really expecting all of the donations to be mine (I bought $50 of canned food). Come December 28th, night of the show...
... We had a Second Harvest barrel in front, ready for donations. I walked away for, I dunno, twenty minutes? I COME BACK TO AN OVERFLOWING BARREL! I mean, this barrel was HUGE! The turnout was about 200 or 250 people.. 300 maybe? AND ALMOST EVERYONE DONATED! I was frolicking around and practically making out with people who brought a lot of cans.
When I brought the donations to Second Harvest, they weighed it and it was 282 pounds! I PRACTICALLY SCREAMED, BITCHES! THAT'S MORE THAN I WEIGH!!!!!!
All in all, a magnificent experience. Please run a food drive with me. If I start one, will you sexy Yelpers donate? ; ) If you're interested, let me know!
I've done several OneBrick Food sorts here on Wednesday nights. It's a very satisfying way to volunteer. You feel like you've done something directly worthwhile. It's about two hours from start to finish. That includes the opening orientation and closing thank yous. Those aspects both go on a little long but once things get crackin' everyone is moving.
Do NOT go to the gym that day. At least, skip the weight part of your workout and do aerobic only.
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