September is Hunger Action Month

We ask everyone in our community to take action against hunger in our area, all month long. Hunger Action Month is your opportunity to join a movement that has a real and lasting impact on our effort to feed more hungry individuals and families facing food insecurity.

Whether it’s by advocating and raising awareness, making donations or volunteering, we hope you can find a way that’s right for you to make a difference during Hunger Action Month.

A United Spring Campaign

Harvest for Hunger is an annual springtime campaign and collaborative effort of four local food banks across 21 counties to help fight hunger in Northeast Ohio. It is coordinated by the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank, Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley and Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio.

Feed Our Valley

The annual campaign that our local news WFMJ hosts call “Feed Our Valley.” This is an effort to educate people about hunger in the valley and raise vital donations of food and money in order to feed our hungry neighbors.

Move Forward Together by Donating A Car

Donating a vehicle is another way for you to support our mission, helping us provide essential resources to those in need while also receiving a tax deduction. Your generous contribution will enable us to continue delivering nutritious food to families and individuals facing hunger.

Learn More

Thank you for your interest in partnering with us in our mission to end hunger in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Get Some, Give Back

Country Fair’s Pump for Charity Program donates 2 cents of every loyalty gallon pumped at our 5 Mahoning Valley locations. Dates to be announced for 2025.

BoxLunch is a curated gift and novelty store with a cause! For every $10 you spend, we help provide a meal to a person in need. Located in the Eastwood & Southern Park Malls. For more information, please visit http://www.boxlunch.com/boxlunch-gives/

The Fight Hunger. Spark Change. Campaign at Walmart & Sam’s Club stores will be the entire month of March 2025. You can participate in 3 ways:

  • Donate at check-out including rounding up
  • Purchase specially marked products that suppliers donate the equivalent of at least one meal to our food bank
  • Donate online at Feeding America’s Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign site. All donations made in our area stay in our area.

Giant Eagle & GetGo locations in our tri-county area are collecting at the registers and pumps during their Check Out Hunger Campaign February 27 – May 31, 2025. Every $1 from customers helps us provide up to 5 meals.

Thank you for making a difference and helping us feed our hungry friends and neighbors – you may be helping someone you know …so no one goes hungry

Shop, Donate, and Deliver Hope from Home

We’re excited to share that we’ve teamed up with Instacart to make holiday giving extra easy this year with the launch of Community Carts! With this feature, you can now send food donations directly to us without leaving your home.

All you have to do is:

  1. Open our Community Cart on Instacart
  2. Shop most-needed items from our wish list
  3. Check out and an Instacart shopper will deliver the items directly to us
  4. Head to the app to #GiveFromTheCart!

Foundation and Corporate Donors

Second Harvest gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Mahoning Valley’s community and family foundations and national and local businesses in the past 5 years.

If your foundation or business is interested in learning more about or supporting the work of Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley, we invite you to contact Michael Iberis, Executive Director, at 330-792-5522, ext 106.

Akron Community Foundation
American Endowment Foundation
APTIV Foundation
AYCO Charitable Foundation
Baird Foundation, Inc.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Bazetta Cortland Optimist Club Foundation
Bechtel Group Foundation
Florence Simon Beecher Foundation
Nancy W. Beeghly and Bruce R. Beeghly Family Fund
Big Lots Foundation
Bob’s Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Bright Funds Foundation
Christian Church Foundation, Inc.
Circle of Service Foundation
Joel and Deborah Clayman Family Foundation
Columbus Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Richmond
J. Ford Crandall Memorial Foundation
Dale & Alyce Sheely Family Foundation
Darden Restaurants Foundation
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
Edward B. Dunlap, Jr. Foundation
Encova Foundation
Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Everence Foundation, Inc.
FactSet Charitable Foundation

F. Ralph and Mary T. Faggert Family Foundation
Farmers Charitable Foundation
Fibus Family Foundation
John D. Finnegan Foundation
First Lady’s Charitable Foundation (Ohio)
FirstEnergy Foundation
GEICO Philanthropic Foundation
Frank and Pearl E. Gelbman Charitable Foundation
Giant Eagle Foundation
S.L. Gimbel Foundation, a component fund at The Inland Empire Community Foundation
Go Healthy Foundation
Guaranteed Rate Foundation
Helen and Margaret Hripko Charitable Foundation
John F. and Loretta A. Hynes Foundation
Inspire Brands Foundation, Inc. (Arby’s)
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
Kinder Charitable Foundation
Lions Club Foundation of Cortland Ohio
Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Foundation
MEB Charitable Foundation
Morgan Stanley Foundation
Flor Navarro Family Foundation
NOPEC Foundation, Inc.
Northwood Charitable Foundation

Ohio Charity Foundation, Inc. Knights of Columbus
Pepsi Company Foundation
Penn National Gaming Foundation
Cody A. Pitts Foundation
PNC Foundation
Pollack Family Foundation
Premier Bank Foundation
Marni and Morris Propp II Family Foundation
Sambold Foundation
Sebring/West Branch Area Community Foundation
Sheetz, Inc.
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation
Starbucks Foundation
State Farm Companies Foundation
Subaru of America & Rob Fellman’s Boardman Subaru
The Ward Beecher Foundation
The Cafaro Foundation
The Christ Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley
The Day Family Foundation
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities
The Anthony J. Fox Family Foundation
The Frangakis Family Charitable Foundation
The GoodCoin Foundation (Target)
The Hale Foundation

The Huntington Foundation
The Olivia Claire Obrokta Foundation
The William M. Neckerman, Jr. Charitable Foundation
The Arthur L. Parker Foundation
The Perfect Light Foundation
The Pittsburgh Foundation
The Progressive Insurance Foundation
The Ron Russo Foundation
The Schwebel Family Foundation
The TJX Foundation, Inc.
The Trustmark Foundation
The I.J. Van Huffel Foundation
The Walmart Foundation
Dr. H.S. and Florence Wang Family Charity Foundation
The Walter E. and Caroline H. Watson Foundation
The Raymond John Wean Foundation
The Woodforest Charitable Foundation
The Youngstown Foundation
Thomas Steel Strip Corporation
Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
United Way Services of Northern Columbiana County
United Way of Trumbull County
United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley
Wells Fargo Foundation
Westchester Community Foundation
Witmer Memorial Foundation