Our community partners that help us provide millions of meals each year come in all shapes and sizes. Custom Culinary® is a wholesale food company that provides food to restaurants all over the country. A successful local company, Custom Culinary is also a successful partner to Second Harvest.
It has been a whirlwind of excitement and activity over the past year as we have worked tirelessly 
on the campaign to bring our Nordson Food Distribution Center to life. In addition to building a new building, we have been busy expanding our programs, building our volunteer base, and working with 110 partner charities to ensure that healthy and fresh food is getting to our neighbors in need.
When you are the Executive Director of a food bank, you get a lot of questions from friends, family, and community members. Sometimes people want to know what counties we serve, where the food goes, and generally what we do. But the question I hear most frequently is: “Where does all that food come from?”
For the past three years we have been working tirelessly toward the goal of building a new facility to expand our capacity and ability to help more of our neighbors in need across our 4-county service area. One of the pillars of the new Nordson Food Distribution Center is increased refrigeration capacity so we can provide more healthy and fresh foods, often seen as a luxury to families and children. Providing fresh produce to our network of over 100 partner charities is a priority we are committed to at Second Harvest. But, we cannot do it alone. We are able to provide meals to our neighbors in need from a combination of philanthropic, community, individual, corporate, and government support at the federal and state levels.
Do you want to have your voice heard at the Ohio Statehouse about why you care about hunger in your community? Sign a paper plate at Second Harvest and share your voice with our elected officials. Paper plates will be on display at the Ohio Statehouse on February 10, 2015 Share your experience, why you donate or volunteer, and help us tell our elected officials why we care about hunger issues in our community. Check out some of the paper plates.
