by SARAH THOMACK
St. Joseph Post
Second Harvest Community Food Bank, along with five other food banks in Missouri, will be receiving CARES Act funds.
Second Harvest CEO Chad Higdon says the announcement that Second Harvest in St. Joseph would receive $359,288 came as a surprise.
"We have been providing data and statistics to Feeding Missouri in terms of the six food banks that serve the state and I think as they look at the farm boxes that are set to expire and some of the USDA food distribution commodity programs kind of dropping off, they saw the need is going to continue on and looking at how they can support us and the work we do and continue to help individuals in need right now."
Higdon says the funding will help them continue to support mobile distributions and pantries and keep up with the needs that have come up due to the pandemic.
Governor Mike Parson announced the $5 million in CARES Act funding to be distributed to the six regional food banks.