SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

Willy Elliott-McCrea, CEO

Dear Second Harvest Community,

Longtime supporters of Second Harvest know we run an operation that’s lean, effective, and a true lifeline for so many people in need in our community.

This year we’re celebrating the 20th year of our award-winning Food For Children program. We’re distributing more food than ever—over 8.3 million pounds last year—and more healthy food than ever, placing in the 99th percentile among Feeding America food banks. And this summer we won a big legislative victory in Sacramento, strengthening the food bank’s ability to obtain more California produce.

But we’re not resting on our laurels. We’re preparing to infuse our agency food distribution—the backbone of our hunger fight—with nutrition education and to increase the availabil-ity of healthy foods still further. And we’ve already begun a strategic, data-driven evaluation of our nutrition programs to perfect our model and further boost its flexibility and effec-tiveness.

The goal is even higher levels of food security, health, and fit-ness, positive changes that stick, and longer-term health and happiness—for individuals, for families, and for the community.

Not everything is roses. Those near the bottom of the economic ladder still find it tough to make ends meet in this economy, especially where the cost of living is high, as it is in Santa Cruz County. In D.C., anti-hunger programs are under attack and food banks may end up shouldering more of the burden.Lisa Kirk, Board Chair

But we are well-positioned. We’ve got expert staff, strong relationships, dedicated volunteers, and an engaged community of donors and supporters. Thanks to you, we’re here, day in and day out, fighting hunger so that everyone in Santa Cruz County has the nourishment necessary to pursue life’s opportunities.

Thank you for your continued support.

Willy & Lisa

ChairLisa Kirk, Human Resources Consultant

Vice ChairTricia Wynne, Public Policy Analyst / Attorney

TreasurerRick Weiss, Bay Federal Credit Union

Corporate SecretaryMarilyn Mersereau, Plantronics

Past Board ChairBob Norton, Business Consultant

Members

Michael Bryant, CPA, Wheeler Accountants, LLP

Tim Carl, The Carl Group

Teresita Hinojosa, County of Santa Cruz

Sarah Latham, UC Santa Cruz

Ralph Maltese, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties

Donna Mosich, DM Technical

June Ponce, Sun Valley Berries, LLC

Jon Sisk, Lighthouse Bank

Board of Trustees

Bruce McPherson (Chair), Jeremy Lezin (Vice Chair), Jess Brown, Diane Cooley, Rebecca Garcia, Ken Kannappan, Edward J. Kelly III, John Laird, Marq Lipton, Harvey Nickelson, Gayle Ortiz, William Ow, Miles Reiter, Manny Solano, Mary Solari, Steve Spragens

Advisory Board

Willy Elliott-McCrea, CEO

Our mission is to end hungerand malnutrition in Santa Cruz

County by educating andinvolving the community

HUNGER ISN’T LIMITED TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD, OR TO POOR

PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Hunger is in every county in every state across the country. And it’s in Santa Cruz County, which boasts substantial wealth and grows much of the state’s fresh produce.

1 in 5 overall

1 in 4 children

HUNGER HAS A PARTNER

With food insecurity comes poor nutrition. Low-income families stretch resources by buying cheap calories.

Lacking access to nutritious foods:

-Leads to high rates of obesity and related conditions like diabetes and heart disease-Limits individuals’ life opportunities-Taxes our health care system

Hunger in Santa Cruz County

CHRONIC DISEASE

Our Partner Agency Network

All Saints Episcopal Church, American Legion/Veteran’s Memorial Building, Assisted Living Project, Associated Faith Communities, Bay Avenue Senior Apartments, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, Bright Path Day Program, Calvary Episcopal Church, Casa de la Cultura, Casa Pacific—Encompass, Cathedral of Faith—Pantry, Child Evangelism Fellowship, Christmas Project, Church of the Nazarene, Community Bridges, Community Connection, Cornerstone Food Pantry, County of S.C. Parks & Rec., Daily Bread, Davenport Resource Center, Digital Nest, Discoveryland Christian Preschool, Ecology Action, El Dorado Center—Encompass, Familia Center, Fasting Prayer Mountain of the World, First United Methodist Church—Watsonville, Food Not Bombs, Freedom Roads Food Pantry, Garfield Park Community Church, Grey Bears, Harbor Light Gospel Tabernacle, Haven of Hope—Halcyon House, Holy Cross, Homeless Services Center, Hope Ministry, Iglesia Adventista Hispana, Iglesia De Cristo, Iglesia de Dios, Iglesia Roca Firme, Inner Light Pantry, Jacob’s Heart, Janus of Santa Cruz, La Manzana Community Resources, Latin American Institute, LIUNA Local 270, Lutheran Community Church, MHCAN, Mid Peninsula Housing Services, Monarch Services, Monterey Bay Teen Challenge, Mountain Bible Church, Mountain Community Resource Center, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, New Life Center, Oratorio Don Bosco, Pajaro Rescue Mission, Pajaro Valley Loaves & Fishes, Pajaro Valley Shelter Services, Pan de Vida, People’s Pantry, Poppy Hill Foundation, Progressive Baptist Church, PV United Summer Soccer Camp, Resetar Hotel—Abode Services, Resurrection Church Pantry, River Street Shelter—Encompass, Salud Para La Gente, Salvation Army—Watsonville, Salvation Army—Santa Cruz, San Agustin Pantry, Santa Cruz Agape Manna, Santa Cruz Aids Project—Encompass, Santa Cruz Bible Church, Santa Cruz Resid. Recovery—Encompass, Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center, Second Story—Encompass, Shorelife Community Church, Si Se Puede—Encompass, St. Francis Soup Kitchen, St. Philips Food Pantry, Star of the Sea, Teen Kitchen Project, Telos Encompass, Tyler House—Encompass, Transitional Aged Youth—Encompass, UCSC Family Student Housing, UCSC Slug Support Pantry, UCSC Student Union Assembly Pantry, United Methodist Church of S.C., United Presbyterian Church Watsonville, UPC Pantry, Valley Churches United Mission, Valley Vineyard, Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center, Watsonville SDA Food Pantry, Watsonville Wetlands Watch, YMCA Camp Campbell, Youth N.O.W., YWCA Childcare

Watsonville

Aptos

Scotts Valley

Santa Cruz

Ben Lomond

Davenport

Boulder Creek

on the ground throughout the county.

Partner Agencies

Jacob’s Heart, in Watsonville, provides care and assistance for the families of children and teens facing life-threatening illness.

The backbone of our food distribution

Santa Cruz County

100 organizationsPLUS by providing

$10 million-worth of food,Second Harvest supports these vital

local non-profits and strengthens critical community services.

reaching people in need at over

Jacob’s Heart, in Watsonville, provides care and assistance for the families of children and teens facing life-threatening illness.

An elderly woman was referred to us through the hotline by a family member concerned for her health. Her husband’s long struggle with cancer had left her drained, mentally and financially. Hospital bills had depleted her savings, and she could no longer afford basics like nutritious food. Our hotline manager connected her with food from our nutrition programs, as well as CalFresh assistance.

She has plenty of challenges left to face, but now, finding enough food to eat is no longer one of them.

Thanks to the County of Santa Cruz, we were able to

leverage technology and old-fashioned people skills

to help low-income residents access a record

1 million needed meals bringing

$2.25 million in benefits to Santa Cruz County and

stimulating over $4 million in local

economic activity.

Outreach

Our Community Food Hotline

food pantries, partner agencies, USDA sites, soup kitchens, summer lunch sites, nutrition programs, Calfresh & WIC...

and other vital services.

CalFresh is the state's first line of defense against hunger

is a direct, personal bridge to food assistance. Our bilingual operators connect callers with...

831-662-0991

Passion For Produce and Food For Children deliver healthy food and nutrition education to Santa Cruz County.

Over 64% of the food we distributed last year was fresh fruits and vegetables

Moving ForwardWe’re working to -Deepen client engagement-Perfect our program model -Increase our effectiveness-Deliver measurable results

We present nutrition

programming over

throughout the year,

at 63 sites across the county

Read the recent independent evaluation of Passion For Produce at www.thefoodbank.org/P4Pcasestudy

-Higher levels of food security, health & fitness-Positive changes that stick -Longer-term health & happiness

1,000 times

Leading to

Nutrition Programs

Moving Forward

In 2016-17 volunteers donated

41,343 hours

Hunger Fighters of the Year 2017

Ralph Cistaro Henry Reynolds

Henry Reynolds serves as Program Director of Teen Challenge Monterey Bay, a faith-based residential program which helps adults recover from life-controlling problems. They serve meals to their “students” in full-time recovery, as well as to people seeking emergency food and shelter at their Pajaro Rescue mission, 365 days a year. Henry sources food, advises students, manages the shelter, and has been an integral part of the program since he himself graduated from it 19 years ago.

Ralph Cistaro has devoted 3,000 hours of his time to Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes, a volunteer-run food pantry and soup kitchen that serves low-income individuals and families. Ralph selects and acquires food and produce at Second Harvest, and unloads goods, serves clients, cleans … whatever needs to be done—he is a big reason the non-profit can provide 25,000 lunches and 8,500 pantry visits each year.

Volunteers Against Hunger

This is how Second Harvest turns every $1 into 4 healthy meals

Twin Lakes Church raised 890,784 meals in last year’s Holiday Food & Fund Drive

PRESENTING SPONSORS | Dignity Health Dominican Hospital, Dignity Health Medical Group—Dominican CHAMPION SPONSORS | Bank of America, Bay Federal Credit Union, Central California Alliance for Health, Lakeside Organic Gardens, Inc., New Leaf Community Markets, Plantronics, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sutter Health—Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Wells Fargo, Whole Foods Markets AMBASSADOR SPONSORS | Alexis Party Rentals, Deluxe Foods of Aptos, Erik’s DeliCafé, Good Times, iHeart Radio, KAZU Radio, KSCO Radio, Nordic Naturals, Pacific Gas & Electric, Register-Pajaronian, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz County Bank, Seagate, Times Publishing Group FOOD ADVOCATE SPONSORS | Palace Business Solutions SOCIAL MEDIA SPONSOR | Santa Cruz Waves

How We Do It

Foundations

Grocers Farmers Donors Volunteers Partners Sponsors Distributors

David & Lucile Packard Foundation MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

Bank of America Foundation

Wells Fargo Foundation

Albertsons Foundation

Red Nose Day Fund

The Walt Disney Company

Walmart Foundation

Special Acknowledgements

2016/17 Holiday Food & Fund Drive Sponsors

Advocacy

Farm to Family bridges the gap between surplus produce and people in need

Dick Peixoto and family of Lakeside Organic Gardens, a local Farm to Family donor

Dick Peixoto and family of Lakeside Organic Gardens, a Farm to Family donor.

Obtains surplus produce from over 100 growers across the state Distributes 135 truckloads per week to food banks like Second Harvest 50 varieties of produce, from apples to zucchini

Adds healthy variety to our offerings, supports farmers and farmworkers, and puts 160 million pounds of produce on the tables of people in need

How We Do It

Second Harvest stays on top of the policies that affect our clients, at the federal, state, and local levels.

These days the political environ-ment is uncertain, but we’re hard at work.

This year we won a key victory in Sacramento. We worked with other food banks and policy groups to defend the state’s investment in CalFood, which supplies locally grown produce to food banks.

This will help people in need throughout the state and allow us to distribute an extra 500,000 pounds of produce throughout the community.

Policy matters!

Advocacy

Our Chief Operations and Programs officer Kevin Heuer (right) with State Senator Bill Monning (mid-dle) and other food bank reps

See the many sources of our healthy food at

www.thefoodbank.org/foodsources

Farm to Family is an initiative of the California Association of Food Banks

54,504 people served each month

"I’m a single mother of three young children working 40 hours per week to make ends meet, yet it is still difficult to always put food on the table. With your wonderful program we always have fruit, vegetables, grains, and juice. Thank you!"

-Food For Children participant, Elizabeth Oaks

"I got days when I don’t want to leave the house, but I look forward to seeing people here and get excited about the food—it connects you, and you take that home with you. And those fruits and vegeta-bles are that much sweeter and tastier because you got it here."

-Passion For Produce participant, Soquel

veterans elderly children people with sickness or disabilities working poor homeless

...and anyone needing to get through a tough time

In 2016-17 we distributed8,328,321

pounds of food

The Impact

Statement of Financial Positionas of June 30, 2017 (unaudited)

BALANCE SHEET Assets: Cash and investments $3,400,659 Accounts receivable 144,022 Food inventory 1,756,000 Prepaid expenses 56,772 Land, building, and equipment 6,055,785 Total assets $11,413,237 Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses $218,536 Long-term payable (building and land) 1,667,855

Total liabilities $1,886,391 Equity: Undesignated $398,879 Designated for food and reserves 3,065,330 Land, building, and equipment 4,513,307 Temporarily restricted assets 1,549,328 Total net equity $9,526,846 Total liabilities and net equity $11,413,237

Annual Revenue: Food donations $14,335,935Cash contributions 1,885,337Grants 1,705,736Government contracts 742,299Fees and other 698,522 Total revenue $19,367,829

Annual Operating Expenses: Food distributed $14,675,371Food purchased 388,790Food storage and distribution 2,151,463Programs 815,560Administrative and general 335,481Fundraising 608,701

Total expenses $18,975,366

Government Contracts

4%

Fees and other3%

Grants9%

Cash contributions10%

Food donations74%

Financials

@SHFBSantaCruz

800 Ohlone ParkwayWatsonville, CA 95076-7005

831.722.7110Fax: 831.722.0435

www.thefoodbank.orgSecondHarvestSantaCruz

Our vision is a healthy community where no one goes hungry or has their life opportunities limited due to malnutrition

Legacy Giving provides healthy food to the next generation and beyond.

Learn more about Legacy GivingContact Suzanne Willis831-288-3002suzanne@thefoodbank.org