Second Harvest food bank was awarded $4.4 million from Spokane County commissioners, which will help address food insecurity in Spokane County. | Pixabay
Second Harvest food bank was awarded $4.4 million from Spokane County commissioners, which will help address food insecurity in Spokane County. | Pixabay
Second Harvest food bank was awarded $4.4 million from Spokane County commissioners, which will help address food insecurity in Spokane County.
"Second Harvest has seen an 87% increase in the demand for food, and the nonprofit expects that number to increase as financial stress from the pandemic continues, according to the organization’s request to the county. Second Harvest is a nonprofit that supplies smaller food banks with food and has food distribution sites throughout Eastern Washington and northern Idaho," the Spokesman Review reported. "The county awarded the nonprofit $61,000 for transportation costs, $337,000 to store food and $4 million to purchase food."
President and CEO of Second Harvest Jason Clark said the funding was awarded to help give food to families struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re in a position we’ve never been before,” Clark told the Spokesman Review. “While our warehouses are chock full today, we know that various pandemic-related programs are scheduled to end soon, so the situation will likely flip on a dime and we’ll be scrambling for food.”
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