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Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia unveils their new home

Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia, the agency that partners with Feed the Boro to provide food for monthly food drops, recently cut the ribbon on their new campus located in Savannah, GA.
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L to R: Susannah Pedigo, Board President, Second Harvest; Tom Pace, Past Board President, Second Harvest; Van R. Johnson II, Mayor, City of Savannah; Mary Jane Crouch, Executive Director, Second Harvest; Chester Ellis, Chairman, Chatham County Board of Commissioners; Mrs. Cynthia Willett; Brooke Ann Childers, District Director, Office of Congressman Buddy Carter; Rusty Haygood, Deputy Commissioner, Georgia Department of Community AffairsCasey Jones

Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia hosted local dignitaries, their Board of Directors, donors, community partners, and friends at the Ribbon Cutting for the Food Bank’s new campus located at 1380 Chatham Parkway in Savannah on Monday, April 15th. 

Mary Jane Crouch, Executive Director and Susannah Pedigo, Board President for Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, were joined in the ceremonial presentation and ribbon cutting by Chester Ellis, Chairman, Chatham County Board of Commissioners, Trip Tollison, President, Savannah Economic Development Authority, Savannah Mayor Van R. Johnson II, and Rusty Haygood, Deputy Commissioner, GA DCA. 

The community was invited in to see the state-of-the-art food bank made possible in part by a $25 million grant by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) through an allocation of funds from the CARES Community Development Block Grant for capital improvement awarded back in December 2022. 

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(L) Tod Marsh, Food Lion Statesboro Manager attending the ribbon cutting with (R) Tom Perry, Food Lion Director of Operations. Don Poe

The grant allocation combined with a capital campaign supported by many generous donors, corporations, foundations, and grants made it possible to purchase land and build a new facility that doubles the size of the food bank’s principal warehouse, commercial kitchen, and programs’ administrative offices.

The Chatham Parkway campus is easily accessible to major highways and will allow Second Harvest to accept more donations and provide more food to the community.  The state-of-the-art facility is designed to meet the needs of the organization and to assist the children, seniors, families, and individuals facing food insecurity in the twenty-one counties that they serve.  

The food bank occupies two buildings totaling 149,000 sq. ft., has ten warehouse loading docks, a volunteer workroom and warehouse, a training room, a large commercial kitchen, and plenty of room to increase capacity to feed the future through programs such as Brown Bag for the Elderly, Kids Cafe, Mobile Food Pantry, Partner Market Place, and the School Pantry Program.

Second Harvest’s new facility was designed to feed the future. It is their hope that hunger will no longer be an issue, but until that day, they will continue to efficiently and effectively provide enough food to those at risk for hunger so they no longer will have to worry about where or when they will get their next meal.