Second Harvest Heartland awarded Super Bowl Legacy Grant

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee Legacy Fun awarded a $50,000 grant to Second Harvest Heartland in week 48 of their 52 Weeks of Giving Campaign.

“So Second Harvest Heartland works with a set of fantastic partners and those are food shelves, meal programs, homeless shelters and we are the backbone to providing for many of those partners,” explained Rob Zeaske, CEO of Second Harvest Heartland.

“We know that we spend $400 million a year, according to the University of Minnesota, in remediating students who are hungry. For kids – if you're hungry you are going to struggle to stay on a healthy growth development path, you're going to struggle in school, that has not only human consequences for our communities but also economic consequences.”

The grant will go toward purchasing a trailer to help deliver healthy food to those 177,000 children throughout the state.

“For us moving produce is a little bit more costly. We have to do it a little bit more quickly because it is perishable. But last year more than 55% of the food we distributed was perishable. Those were fresh fruits and vegetables and it's the stuff our kids love to eat in their kitchens and this trailer is about making more of that happen.”

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