Join us at Bankers Life Fieldhouse for an evening complete with dishes prepared by top chefs in Indianapolis, delicious wines, craft cocktails & beer, a silent auction, and entertainment… while transforming lives through the power of food. When: March 9, 2017 Where: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St. Tickets: $150 [...]
Some of the city’s best chefs go head-to-head to find out whose soup reigns supreme! When: Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Where: Second Helpings The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Center 1121 Southeastern Ave. Tickets: ONLINE TICKETS ARE CLOSED. A limited number of tickets will be available [...]
During the cold winter months, people often want to stay bundled inside with blankets and hot chocolate. Second Helpings keeps pumping out and delivering meals to partner agencies during the most necessary time of year, and we couldn’t do it without our devoted, amazing volunteers. Here is the list [...]
Second Helpings will be closed on Saturday December 17 due to very bad road conditions. Please stay home and stay safe.
Like many students, my road to Second Helpings was a long one. After 30 years in California, I found myself in a new city, the “Crossroads of America,” facing a crossroads of my own. Searching for my purpose, I discovered Second Helpings through an Ivy Tech student who attended [...]
The mission of Second Helpings is to transform lives through the power of food. While this regularly applies to rescuing food, feeding the hungry, and teaching job skills to unemployed or underemployed adults, it also relates to special cases. A volunteer is a person who willingly gives their time [...]
Started as an elementary school in 1908, Cathedral Kitchen has undergone many transformations to become the haven it is today. It began its feeding of the poor during a critical time in American history in 1928 on the campus of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral. During the Great Depression [...]
This morning we were honored to have Governor and Mrs. Pence working in our Hunger Relief kitchen alongside our Wednesday volunteers. Second Helpings has always been of our community, for our community. It is a place where people of all faiths, ideologies, and walks of life are welcomed and [...]
Did you see a painter on Prospect Street, battling the wind and rain to capture the Tonic Ball presented by Eskenazi Health festivities on Friday? As a kid, Nicholai Shaver discovered a passion and a talent for drawing. Continuing on through school at the Herron School of Art and Design, [...]
The mystery behind the magic. Tonic Ball is a special event, created fifteen years ago by a group of forward thinking Indianapolis individuals who sought to make a difference in the community by doing what they loved – playing music. Every November, local bands converge on Fountain Square to [...]