Charter One Foundation helps to feed the Valley's hungry

YOUNGSTOWN

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley took delivery today of 1,500 chickens provided via a $10,000 Charter One Foundation grant as part of the foundation’s Carve Out Hunger program.

Charter One employees volunteered to help repack donated food and load the vans and trucks that took the food to Second Harvest’s 153 member agencies for distribution in Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties. The chickens will help make up more than 8,000 meals.

This year’s donation from Charter One to Second Harvest is part of a $100,000 commitment to food banks across Ohio. The Charter One Foundation has donated more than $1 million over the last 10 years to holiday food programs in the Mahoning Valley, Cleveland, Toledo and the Akron-Canton area.