Allison O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer

• Mobilizing Minnesotans to end hunger together
• Inflation and Covid recovery
• The racial hunger divide

Angelica Klebsch, Director of Community Partnerships

• Building community partnerships for hunger relief
• Barriers facing immigrant communities
• Tailoring strategies for special populations

Sarah Moberg, Chief Operations Officer

• End-to-end supply chain: sourcing, storing, distribution
• Innovating to serve our neighbors better
• Neighbor-centered services based in collaboration and partnership

Ethan Neal, Director of Partner Operations

• How strong food shelves power hunger relief
• Mobilizing local agriculture systems for hunger relief
• Supporting a 1,000-plus network of food programs

• 10/24/2024 Post Consumer Brands Donates $500,000 to Second Harvest Heartland
• 10/10/2024 Second Harvest Heartland Announces Three New Board Members and New Board Leadership
• 9/16/2024 Six Minnesota Nonprofits Join Together to Promote National Voter Registration Day
• 6/20/2024 Second Harvest Heartland Reports Progress on Make Hunger History Initiative by Getting More of the Right Food, Right Where it’s Needed
• 3/21/2024 Kitchen Coalition Celebrates Distributing 5 Million Prepared Meals Made by Communities, for Communities
• 1/29/2024 Second Harvest Heartland and Partners Announce Make Hunger History Initiative with Goal to Cut Hunger in Half for All Minnesotans by 2030

• 12/21/2023 Food shelves struggling to serve communities amid high demand, looking for donations
• 12/21/2023 Want to fight hunger? There’s a better way than scrounging cans from your cupboards
• 12/13/2023 How Minnesota Stands Out in Charitable Impact
• 12/7/2023 Serving up kindness: How to help food banks, food rescues and more tackle food insecurity this holiday
• 12/6/2023 Food insecure MSU students find help at Campus Cupboard
• 11/28/2023 Food banks are filling gaps in the safety net this holiday season
• 11/21/2023 After beating Knicks, Timberwolves give back at Second Harvest Heartland
• 11/21/2023 $5 million in leftover federal COVID funds going to Minnesota food banks ahead of holidays
• 10/27/2023 Local food bank needs volunteers to feed hungry Minnesotans
• 10/25/2023 Viral social media post highlights 'real needs' at food banks
• 9/28/2023 Hunger relief organizations in the Twin Cities brace for impact of possible government shutdown
• 9/27/2023 Minnesota food shelves brace for government shutdown
• 9/27/2023 Ag secretary: Federal shutdown would hurt nutrition assistance, rural America
• 9/27/2023 We can’t feed the hungry without SNAP
• 9/26/2023 Government shutdown cloud looms over WIC recipients
• 8/2/2023 Farm bill, food stamps and federal funding debated at Minnesota's Farmfest
• 6/17/2023 About 4,000 Minnesotans could lose access to food stamps thanks to federal debt ceiling deal, unless they work or meet exemptions
• 6/14/2023 State helping to fund prepared meals that nonprofits provide to people in need
• 6/13/2023 Lt. Gov. Flanagan, nonprofits praise additional $3.3 million for prepared meals program
• 6/8/2023 2H Heartland Unearths SNAP Myths Among Latinos
• 6/2/2023 Legislature made progress on hunger, but there’s more to do
• 6/1/2023 Second Harvest Heartland receives large milk donation as food shelf demand surges
• 5/30/2023 KARE 11 Sunrise & Second Harvest Heartland team up for Summer Meals for Kids
• 4/24/2023 The Legislature can do more to address hunger
• 4/18/2023 How potholes can cause food insecurity
• 4/8/2023 Food shelves grapple with even more demand after COVID emergency federal food assistance expire
• 4/5/2023 Food shelves facing greater pressure with the end of additional SNAP benefits
• 3/8/2023 Food Banks Will Bear the Brunt of America’s Looming Hunger Cliff
• 3/2/2023 'I'm really worried about it': As federal emergency food help ends, Minnesotans voice concerns
• 2/28/2023 Emergency SNAP benefits end, Minnesota food shelves brace for growing need
• 2/27/2023 COVID-era emergency SNAP benefits set to end, food shelves gear up for more demand
• 2/20/2023 Concerns rise as north Minneapolis loses key grocery, pharmacy stores
• 2/20/2023 Campus-based assistance programs aim to combat food insecurity
• 2/9/2023 2H Heartland CEO Attends State of the Union Address
• 2/7/2023 Senator Tina Smith prepares for State of the Union Address
• 2/3/2023 Wolves coach Finch, staff help out at Second Harvest Heartland
• 1/30/2023 Kitchen Coalition expands beyond the Twin Cities, offering restaurant-style meals to people in need
• 1/20/2023 How Kitchen Coalition makes fresh meals for people in need
• 1/2/2023 At food banks, need is up, donations are down