Second Harvest Tailgate at McCulloch Park

MUNCIE, IN - Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will provide food for families in need at an additional Tailgate Program on Thursday, February 18, 2010. The Second Harvest Tailgate will be held at McCulloch Park, located at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. & Centennial Ave. in Muncie. The distribution is from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM while supplies last.

This Second Harvest Tailgate is a collaborative effort between Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana and the United Way of Delaware County. For more information: foodbank@curehunger.org,  800-886-0882, or www.curehunger.org.

Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana is the region’s largest hunger-relief charity.  Our mission is to provide a coordinated approach to alleviating hunger in East Central Indiana. Our goal is to feed East Central Indiana's most vulnerable residents through a region-wide network of member agencies and programs and to engage our region in the fight to end hunger.

Each year, the Second Harvest Food Bank  network provides food assistance to more than 63,900 low-income people facing hunger in Blackford, Delaware, Grant, Henry, Jay, Madison, Randolph and Wabash Counties, including more than 22 thousand children and seven thousand seniors.

Our network of more than 120 programs serves all eight counties and includes food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs, Kids Cafes, BackPack, and the Tailgate Programs. Second Harvest Food Bank secures and distributes more than 5 million pounds of donated food and grocery products annually.