Country music star, TV host and Dickson native Craig Morgan will join
volunteers from UnitedHealthcare today to staff a Second Harvest Food
Bank of Middle Tennessee Mobile Pantry.
Each Mobile Pantry delivers food directly to Second Harvest Food Bank of
Middle Tennessee partner agencies around middle Tennessee for one-day,
large-scale community food distribution. People who need food assistance
will receive perishable and nonperishable food items, fresh produce,
personal-care items and household cleaning products.
On average, Mobile Pantries feed 250 families and supplies around 15,000
pounds of food per distribution per day. This program, often used with
small food pantries that do not have a lot of storage space, is one of
the most effective ways for Second Harvest to provide food assistance to
rural communities. Mobile Pantries are available to all 46 counties in
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee’s service area.
The volunteer project will celebrate UnitedHealthcare’s recent $100,000
donation to Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. The donation
will help bring food to more than 10,000 hungry children, families and
seniors by funding 40 Mobile Pantry deliveries throughout Middle
Tennessee. This donation is one of three grants UnitedHealthcare is
giving to Feeding America chapters in Tennessee. Second Harvest Food
Bank of Northeastern Tennessee and Second Harvest Food Bank of East
Tennessee each are receiving $50,000.
“As demand for our services continues to increase, we must be in a
position to provide assistance to the growing number of children,
seniors and families in Tennessee,” said Jaynee Day, president and CEO
of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. “We appreciate the
generous donation from UnitedHealthcare, which will enable us to provide
food items and fresh produce to more than 10,000 families through our
Mobile Pantry program.”
“There are a lot of parents struggling to feed their families right here
in Dickson, so I'm glad to join UnitedHealthcare and Second Harvest Food
Bank to help provide solutions and fight hunger in our own backyard here
in Middle Tennessee,” said Morgan.
“UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to partner with Second
Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee to make a difference in the lives
of Tennesseans and to help ensure they have access to fresh, nutritious
food,” said Scott A. Bowers, CEO, Tennessee, UnitedHealthcare Community
Plan. “We want to do all we can to help eradicate hunger in Tennessee.”
This is the second year UnitedHealthcare has partnered with Second
Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee in the fight against hunger. Last
year, UnitedHealthcare’s $100,000 donation enabled Second Harvest to
distribute nearly 480,000 meals and more than 575,000 pounds of food to
hungry children, families and children in middle Tennessee.
This project is the latest in UnitedHealthcare’s “Do Good. Live Well.”
employee volunteer initiative, whose mission is to prevent hunger and
obesity and inspire service and encourage volunteerism. For more
information about the benefits of volunteering and to find local
opportunities to get involved, visit www.DoGoodLiveWell.org.
Follow @DoGoodLiveWell on Twitter or “like” Do Good. Live Well. on
Facebook.
About Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee
Organized
in 1978, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee is a private,
not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization. Second Harvest’s mission is to
feed hungry people and work to solve hunger issues in our community.
Second Harvest distributes food and other products to approximately 400
nonprofit partner agencies in 46 counties in Middle and West Tennessee.
Our partners include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, childcare
facilities, senior centers, group homes, and youth enrichment programs.
For more information on Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee and
its programs, please visit www.secondharvestmidtn.org.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to
helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers
the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers
and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
780,000 physicians and other health care professionals and 5,900
hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare serves
more than 40 million people in health benefits and is one of the
businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50
health and well-being company.
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