Year to Date Impact Numbers

10 Million Pounds of Food Collected and Distributed
40.2 Million Servings of Fresh Produce Provided
16,676 Passionate Volunteers So Far This Year
3,122 Events to End Hunger Held
909 Agencies Received Food

What Matters Most In Your Community?

What matters most is being there and lending a hand when your neighbors need it.

There are many ways you can make a difference to someone struggling to make ends meet. The most important one is simply the way you choose!

Lillie Wiggins is an excellent example of how one person can bless an entire community. As a result of her initiative, she— alongside her family of faith at Alameda Christian Church— has helped countless families in her community.

Alameda Church is located in a high-need, low-resource area of the city. The nearby residents struggle with hunger and food insecurity, among other things. In response to this need, the church decided to become a recipient of food from SoSA’s Gleaning Network.

“Besides being outdoors and serving alongside my church family, I love that I’m able to be a part of something larger than myself. Everyone must start somewhere, but your efforts grow quickly and put food on tables of real people in need, right away— people you might see walking down the street or in the grocery store.”

Lillie has served alongside SoSA as a volunteer, donor, and fundraiser. Now, she is on SoSA’s National Board of Directors, helping provide nationwide program oversight and guidance.

Over the years, Lillie and her family of faith have organized food distribution events and food drives; they’ve gleaned fields and markets. Now they excitedly offer a variety of fresh produce, free to the community, from their community garden.

It began by bringing a load of healthy produce to local families. And has grown exponentially into a community-wide effort to encourage, empower, and equip residents to be self-sufficient and feed their families.

“I’m excited to see how the programs have grown at our church. When we started volunteering with SoSA, I knew it would be great. I could tell from how the volunteers spoke and how the staff lived out servant leadership.”

As a donor, volunteer, farmer, and/or recipient of SoSA's food, like Lillie Wiggins you’ve given, served, learned, and even led others in sharing good food with hungry neighbors. And that’s what matters most— doing something when you see an opportunity!

You meet the needs of struggling families each time you step forward and share the abundance available to you. Your neighbors receive fresh food when they worry they might have to go without.

Every act of volunteer service or sharing abundance meets a human need and brings people and communities together.

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Envisioning a world without hunger, in which physical and spiritual hungers are met by God's abundance and grace through Jesus Christ, The Society of St. Andrew brings people together to harvest and share healthy food, reduce food waste, and build caring communities by offering nourishment to hungry neighbors. The Society of St. Andrew is a 43-year old national nonprofit hunger-relief ministry that improves the environment by keeping good food out of landfills and feeds hungry people by sharing rescued fruits and vegetables with front-line feeding agencies (soup kitchens, shelters, food banks and food pantries, etc.) across the country. More information is available online at EndHunger.org.