A big thank you to Shirley Melloh, Second Helpings' Volunteer of the Month for April! Shirley is a Tuesday evening volunteer; she is part of an amazing group of volunteers that serves every Tuesday evening. Shirley has been a great friend to Second Helpings, also volunteering with our Corks [...]
You are invited to participate in the third-annual Gr8 Pasta Push with Second Helpings and WISH-TV 8, June 2-16! In 2021, this community-wide effort provided enough pasta to produce more than 145,600 meals in central Indiana. As you may know, pasta is critical to Second Helpings’ kitchen, where we [...]
We have partnered with our friends at NUVO for another one of their wildly popular Indy Food & Drink Weeks, offering Indy residents a discount on delicious food at some of their favorite, local restaurants. This time we’re celebrating burgers! Indy Burger Week presented by Red Gold Tomatoes is a week-long celebration of [...]
The Hoosier Welshman! If you’ve ever volunteered on a Tuesday, chances are you’ve had the pleasure of conversing with Stephen about one interesting thing or another. He’s quite the character and this Carol Adams Award winner has dedicated over 1,030 hours of his time since 2013 to spreading the [...]
On an ordinary day twenty years ago a group of visionaries and volunteers came together to do something extraordinary – take excess food that might have gone to waste and use it to feed people in need. Their task for the day – prepare a meal for 60 people [...]
If you haven’t already met the newest member of our Hunger Relief Kitchen staff, then you’re missing out! Ashleigh joined the Second Helpings team as a Kitchen Assistant in November, and we are very excited to have her as part of our family. You’re not going to believe us [...]
Kirk Williams and Second Helpings Director of Food Rescue Jon Meinert share a smile on the dock after a recent morning of food rescue. We all know that Food Rescue can be a pretty intense volunteer gig, so when someone commits an entire day each week to [...]
We have partnered with our friends at NUVO for another one of their wildly popular Indy Food & Drink Weeks, offering Indy residents a discount on delicious food at some of their favorite, local restaurants. This time we’re celebrating tenderloin! Indy Tenderloin Week is a week-long celebration of the beloved Hoosier tenderloin. NUVO [...]
Julie Yeater, our February 2018 Volunteer of the Month, has been a true gift to Second Helpings. In December 2015, Julie had returned to the United States after five years spent working in Austria and was looking for an organization where she could volunteer knowing her efforts would make [...]
Anyone who is familiar with Second Helpings’ Culinary Job Training program knows how special graduation days can be. After seven, intense weeks, the students have much to celebrate. After inspiring remarks from commencement speaker Shannon Williams of Indianapolis Recorder, awards from the culinary instructors, the distribution of of toques [...]