Anybody got the skinny on the charity "America's Second Harvest"?

[chalky]

www.secondharvest.org

They're a foodbank network on a list of groups that the FEMA head recommended for cash donations. Let's say I have "concerns" about the rest of the charities mentioned. This one seemed the most promising. But I'd like to get some info from the well-informed DU crowd before I take the leap.

Thanks.

[The Blue Flower]

1. America's Second Harvest

America's Second Harvest has been around a long time, doing great work in distributing food all over the country. The food comes from a variety of sources, often Nabisco "seconds" (the packaging wasn't quite right, something in the recipe was a little off, etc.). They're very reputable, very efficient.

[Krupskaya]

2. They're good.

At least in MN. A good friend worked there for some time.

[intheflow]

3. My local branch affiliate is very reputable.

Second Harvest works with Food Bank of the Rockies here in Denver. FB of the Rockies distributes an amazing amount of food.

btw, I think the name "Second Harvest" refers to the Biblical (Old Testament) concept of gleening. The OT said that good Jews allowed widows, orphans, and homeless into their fields to take what they could to eat after the initial harvest of the fields, gleening food left behind by the reapers.

[chalky]

4. Thanks so much guys. I'm donating--and I'd urge anyone else to

visit their site. Food and feeding the victims has become a slight obsession with me. Watched the reports of looting last night--before it exploded into the nightmare it seems to have become--and all the footage was of people taking food and water and clothes. I know my donation won't get to them immediately, but I feel a little better knowing that there will be food waiting for them when (I refuse to say "if") they get out.