Second Helpings

06/17/2026

Thank you, WISH-TV 📺💚
Spreading the word matters, and our friends at WISH-TV helped us bring the GR8 Pasta Push to living rooms across Central Indiana. Their support inspired so many of you to grab an extra box for a neighbor in need—and that adds up to real meals on real plates.

We're grateful for community partners who use their platform to help fight hunger right alongside us. Thank you for helping us fill more plates! 🍝

There is still time to get involved by grabbing a box or donating online (we have a match up to $10,000!) secondhelpings.org/pasta

06/16/2026

When the pasta donations start rolling in, you've gotta put on your boogie shoes. 🕺🍝

Chef Tiki had the right idea at Kroger last week—because every box you donate is worth dancing about. The GR8 Pasta Push is in its final days (ends June 18!), and we still have a $10,000 match to meet, thanks to two generous anonymous donors.

So channel your inner Tiki and help us finish strong:
🍝 Donate pasta
💸 Give online
✅ Or both!

Less than $2 sends a meal—matched, it sends two. Let's boogie our way to that match. 💚
Donate: secondhelpings.org/pasta

06/15/2026

Look what's braising in our kitchen. 🍲
Every so often, our Hunger Relief chefs step in to mentor the current class in our Culinary Job Training program—and last week, it was Chef Tiki's turn. She walked our students through the art of braising, one of those foundational techniques that turns a good cook into a confident professional.

The proof is on the plate. 👀 Check out the students' final dishes below—we're seriously impressed.

Our Culinary Job Training program prepares adults for careers in the culinary industry, completely free. This is what "More Opportunities" looks like.

Learn more: secondhelpings.org/what-we-do/culinary-job-training

06/12/2026

Meet Maggie—chef, camp counselor, and proud owner of one very full sash. 🏅

Welcome to Camp Second Helpings, our summer-long volunteer adventure! From now through August 28, every new station you try earns a unique embroidered patch. Prep veggies? That's a Veggie Patch. Work the tilt skillets? Tilt Skillet Patch. Ride along on a food rescue route? Driver Patch. Collect as many as you can all summer long.

Longtime volunteer? Try a station you've never done. New to us? Your first patch is waiting. Families are welcome too—and yes, there's a s'mores celebration at the end. 🔥
Sign up: secondhelpings.org/volunteer/become-a-volunteer

06/11/2026

Right now, your gift goes twice as far. 🍝
Two anonymous donors have put up a $10,000 match for the GR8 Pasta Push—so every dollar you give online is matched, up to $10,000 total. With us, less than $2 sends a meal to a neighbor in need… which means your gift can do DOUBLE the good right now.

The drive runs through June 18. Help us unlock the full match: secondhelpings.org/pasta
Every dollar, doubled. That's a lot of meals. 💚

06/10/2026

Cheers to a good cause—and we mean that literally. 🥂
Tomorrow night (Thursday, June 11), join us at 8th Day Distillery!
20% of your purchase goes straight to Second Helpings, so every sip helps us turn rescued food into free meals for our neighbors.
Bonus: we'll be on-site collecting pasta for the GR8 Pasta Push—bring a box (or a few) and knock out a good deed on your way in.
Great drinks. Good company. A full plate for someone who needs it. See you there!

8th Day Distillery, 1125 E Brookside Ave, Indianapolis

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8th Day Distillery Second Helpings Fundraiser Visit 8th Day Distillery on June 11th and 20% of your purchase will be donated back to Second Helpings. Second Helpings representatives will also be on site accepting pasta donations for the Gr8 Pasta Push.

06/10/2026

This is why we do what we do. 💚
We partner with more than 200 organizations across Central Indiana, reaching some of the most vulnerable people in our community—and every meal we provide is free to them. When a partner tells us the kids they serve are finally eating full, hearty meals and loving them, that's the whole mission in one sentence.
Thank you to the partner who shared these words, and to every organization fighting hunger right alongside us.
We're better at this together.
Less waste. Less hunger. More opportunity.

06/10/2026

Just a quick live look at our team making meals for 6000 of our neighbors. 💚

06/09/2026

4,000+ pounds of pasta. Five Krogers. Five very full vans. 🍝
This weekend, our staff and incredible volunteers fanned out across five Kroger stores for the GR8 Pasta Push Drive Thru—and you showed up. Every shopper who grabbed an extra box helped put a meal on a neighbor's plate (and earned a truly terrible pasta joke as thanks).
Watch Bob show off his packed-to-the-roof van from the Thompson Road store. 👇
Here's the good news: the drive runs through June 18, so there's still time. Drop off pasta at your Marion County Kroger, here at Second Helpings, or at one of the public drop off locations listed at secondhelpings.org/pasta—every gift fuels meals for our community.
Thank you for grabbing that extra box. It adds up fast. 💚

06/05/2026

9,300+ sandwiches. In one week. 🥪
That's not a typo — that's this week in our Hunger Relief sandwich room, where Chef Ric and a room full of incredible volunteers kept the line moving from morning on. And the numbers aren't slowing down.

Here's why it matters: every one of those sandwiches becomes a meal for a neighbor who might not have a meal otherwise — going out to shelters, senior centers, after-school programs, and more across Central Indiana. When you see the scale up close, you realize it only happens because people show up.

Want to be one of them? Join us!
https://www.secondhelpings.org/volunteer/become-a-volunteer/