School of Kinesiology faculty and staff celebrated the end of the fall semester with an afternoon of volunteering at Second Harvest Heartland, creating “protein packs”—boxes of sorted, frozen meats that will be distributed to local food shelves, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, senior community centers and children’s after school programs. The School of Kinesiology group proudly packed 17,000 pounds of protein!
Second Harvest Heartland works to reinvent hunger relief through leadership and innovation. As the Upper Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization, Second Harvest Heartland is known for distributing great amounts of food quickly and efficiently; in 2011 alone, they collected, warehoused and distributed more than 76 million pounds of food.