Helping Harvest to Host Third Annual Celebration of Community & Hope in Berks County

From Helping Harvest

Reading, PA – Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank will host its 3rd annual Celebration of Community and Hope in Berks County at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Reading on Oct. 9 from 5-7:30 p.m.

The event will raise funds for Helping Harvest in support of its mission to feed neighbors experiencing hunger. Sponsors include The Giant Company, Tompkins Community Bank, Weik Capital Management and over 50 additional Berks County sponsors.

Speakers will include Jay Worrall, President of Helping Harvest; Jess Umbenhauer, Chief Operating Officer of Helping Harvest; Jeanne Boyer Porter, Chair of the Helping Harvest Board of Directors; and Pastor Brian Guzman of Iglesia Cristiana Del Rey in Reading, who will provide the invocation.

The program will also include a message on the impact of the Helping Harvest Community Kitchen, opened in downtown Reading in April 2025, and a tribute to Helping Harvest’s dedicated volunteers and staff.

Helping Harvest, the leading provider of food to families in Berks County, has provided services to the county for 42 years. Last year, Helping Harvest supplied $15.2 million (7.8 million lbs.) of nutritious food to Berks County charitable food programs. The Senior Food Box Program distributed almost 584k lbs. of food to lower-income seniors at 63 sites in Berks County. The Weekender Program, which provides a bag of easy-to-prepare meals and snacks for students experiencing food insecurity to eat over the weekend, distributed over 83K bags at 60 sites in Berks County.

More information and tickets available HERE.

Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank is the leading provider of food to neighbors in need in Berks and Schuylkill Counties, PA. Helping Harvest delivers food to over 350 partners in its service area. In 2024, Helping Harvest distributed over $20 million in food to neighbors in need. Helping Harvest is a Partner Food Bank of Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.

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