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Second harvest food shelf12/15/2023 ![]() Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. ![]() We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, placing an order, requesting an estimate, or participating in online surveys. Personal Information You Choose to Provide. ![]() When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website. That means that you can donate either food or funds to CEAP to stock our shelves! Purchasing food from Second Harvest Heartland is one of the ways in which your financial donations to CEAP are used, and why it’s so important that we receive those donations.Īs we approach Give to the Max Day on November 14th, we hope you’ll consider supporting CEAP so that we can continue providing services to your neighbors with dignity and care. In order to utilize a food bank, CEAP has to have funds available to purchase the food. Second Harvest Heartland sells the food to us at cost (meaning it’s less expensive than heading to the grocery store) and delivers the food to our door. When CEAP anticipates or realizes a need, we can call up our food bank partner Second Harvest Heartland and purchase bulk quantities of specific foods. That’s when purchasing food from a food bank comes in! It’s very important to CEAP to offer a consistent variety of nutritious food in our market, and we can’t always guarantee that donations alone will provide that. Food shelves have several ways of receiving the food that stocks their shelves CEAP also receives donations of food from farms, grocery stores (CEAP has a pretty big food rescue program with our grocery partners!), companies, and individuals. Food banks have the capacity and technical know-how to store, process, sell, and transport large quantities of food to food shelves.įood shelves are the direct service end of the system it is your local food shelf, like CEAP, that works directly with people who receive the food. They have different roles to play, and both must be funded and supported by community members for the system as a whole to succeed!įood banks operate as a kind of congregator and wholesaler of food that is often donated by farms, grocery stores, corporations, and individuals. ![]() After we announced our second location in partnership with Second Harvest Heartland, we know some people were asking “Wait, what? Don’t CEAP and Second Harvest Heartland do the exact same thing?”īut what IS the difference between a food bank like Second Harvest Heartland, and a food shelf like CEAP?įood banks and food shelves are both vital members of the food security and hunger-relief system.
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