Second Helpings

It's National Mac and Cheese Day and our chefs came through. 🧀 While making 6,000+ meals a day for our community, we also feed every volunteer and staff member in the building. Everyone eats at our table.

Our CJT kitchen: dark, clean, and quiet... until Monday, when a new class takes their stations. 🔪 1,100+ graduates started right here. And once they graduate, they're ours forever — support for the whole journey.

Friday's volunteer scoreboard: 2,100 sandwiches. 🥪 Why so many? Because many of our partner nonprofits can't reheat meals — no kitchen, no microwave. A sandwich needs neither. Simple food, serious impact.

Today's tilt skillet lineup, courtesy of Chef Tiki: sausage gravy, mixed pasta, chicken stir fry. Thousands of meals in the making. 🔥

50 lbs dry → 125 lbs cooked → cooled with ice → meals for neighbors. 🍝❄️ A little kitchen-science preview from our volunteers! We're still tallying GR8 Pasta Push donations, so many more tilt skillets are on the way. Final numbers soon 👀 #SecondHelpings #GR8PastaPush

May by the numbers 💚 🍽️ ~5,900 meals a day ♻️ 383,000+ lbs of food rescued 👨‍🍳 14 new Culinary Job Training grads Over the past year: 1.4M+ meals & nearly 5M lbs rescued. Thank you for fighting hunger with us! #SecondHelpings #FightHunger

Chef Tiki + a whole lot of donated pasta = something creative on the way. 🍝 In our Hunger Relief kitchen, the plan is always the same: make delicious, nutritious meals from whatever's rescued and donated. Donated pasta in, neighbors fed. 💚 #GR8PastaPush #FightHunger

👀 Spotted: our newest fleet vehicle, fresh wrap and all! 🚚💚 If you see it rolling around Central Indiana, that's good food on the move—rescued and headed to neighbors in need. Give us a wave! #SecondHelpings #FightHunger #FoodRescue

Proof that we rescue ALL kinds of food 🍿 These popcorn bags are taller than Michelle! Rescued from events around town & headed to many of our 220+ community partners as a treat for the neighbors they serve. Less waste. More good. 💚 #SecondHelpings #FoodRescue

Dinner with a side of impact. 🥩💚 Now–Sept 9, @Prime47 is donating 20% of your meal total to Second Helpings. Just book a table & mention us to your server! Great steak, great cause. 🍽️ #SecondHelpings #FightHunger #IndyCares

Thank you, Separators, Inc.! 🍝 The Indianapolis team collected & dropped off 278 lbs of pasta for the #GR8PastaPush—every box becomes a meal for a neighbor. Grateful for companies that fight hunger alongside us! 💚 #indianapolis #nonprofit

Huge thanks to volunteers Greg & Deb Perkins for sponsoring "Fish Day" for our Culinary Job Training students! 🐟 Sponsorships help our students build skills for real culinary careers. Want to sponsor a CJT class—as a person or a company? Let's talk! #CulinaryJobTraining

When the pasta rolls in, Chef Tiki dances. 🕺🍝 The #GR8PastaPush ends June 18 & we still have a $10K match to meet. Every dollar doubles. Donate pasta or give online → secondhelpings.org/pasta Let's boogie. 💚

Braising lesson = leveled up. 🍲 Last week Chef Tiki taught our Culinary Job Training students the art of braising—and these plated dishes are all their work. 👏 Our free CJT program builds careers in the culinary industry. #SecondHelpings #CulinaryJobTraining

Meet Maggie—chef, camp counselor, sash icon. 🏅 Camp Second Helpings is here! All summer, every new volunteer station you try = a new patch. Veggie prep, tilt skillets, food rescue routes… collect 'em all. Sign up: secondhelpings.org/volunteer/beco… #CampSecondHelpings #Volunteer

🚨 $10K MATCH 🍝 Two anonymous donors are matching every gift to the GR8 Pasta Push—up to $10,000. Give online and your donation is doubled. Ends June 18 → secondhelpings.org/pasta #FightHunger #GR8PastaPush

We partner with 200+ organizations across Central Indiana, and every meal we provide is free. When a partner says the kids they serve are finally eating full, hearty meals—that's the whole mission in one sentence. 💚 #FightHunger

4,000+ lbs of pasta. 5 Krogers. 5 very full vans. 🍝🚐 THANK YOU to every shopper who grabbed an extra box for the #GR8PastaPush—and to Bob for the most loaded van we've ever seen. Still time to help (drive ends June 18): secondhelpings.org/pasta #FightHunger

This week: 9,300+ sandwiches. 🥪 Chef Ric + our volunteers in the kitchen this morning, and the pace isn't slowing down. Every sandwich = a meal for a neighbor across Central Indiana. Join us 👉 secondhelpings.org/volunteer/beco… #SecondHelpings #Indianapolis

Day one of the #Gr8PastaPush Raise pasta, drop off in person, or give online (every $ matched up to $10K!). Sat June 6, 10–2: drop pasta at 5 Krogers, Geist, Brownsburg, Southport Rd, Thompson Rd & Speedway Sign up + map: secondhelpings.org/pasta/ Give: connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization/s…