Case Study: Nonprofit Expands to Serve a Growing Community Second Harvest’s Smart Growth Story: Second Harvest began in 1981 as a way to help feed the hungry at multiple locations. Local nonprofit agencies can visit the Second Harvest warehouse to acquire food and household supplies to distribute to people in their communities. While distribution to emergency pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, low-income day cares and senior programs is Second Harvest’s main function, the organization takes a two- pronged approach to providing services. Second Harvest also runs its own programs, tackling needs for specific populations such as seniors, at-risk children and even pets through services such as backpack programs and mobile food pantries. Since 2004, the number of pounds of fo

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