America's Second Harvest and more

Rick Bella, director of purchasing for America's Second Harvest, shared this encouraging news with his network partners last Thursday...

What can a network of over 200 wonderful food banks do in just three days!!! They can commit to taking 3-Million pounds of fresh produce!!! It's true; we have recorded allocation of OVER THREE MILLION POUNDS in just THREE DAYS! A2H has assisted members so far this week with $10,000 in trucking costs with members paying $74,500 in freight costs... we have also helped to subsidize $148,800 in packing costs with members paying $47,000. Yes, it does cost money... but if you add it all up... shipping 3,154,053 pounds of fresh produce: PRICELESS! Congratulations to our network... and much thanks to Emily Maris for her hard work this week with logistics' of all of this... that's a lot of tomatoes!

Later, Rick wrote in an e-mail that A2H broke another record for donations. Produce allocations for the week of March 5 through March 12 were 4,249,000 pounds--- over 100 truckloads. As Rick says, that amazing.. Wow. Congrats to the work and will of the network, and Rick's team to get this done for the nation's hungry.