agency partners

“Second Helpings continues to do an exceptional job with providing for our growing numbers.”
– Nannette Pierson, Sandalwood Community Food Pantry, Hilton Head Island

Second Helpings partners with organizations and churches that serve people in need. Our Agency Partners include soup kitchens, food pantries, family and senior programs.

Thanks to the generosity of our volunteers and donors, we provide food to 55 Agency Partners throughout Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties.

Our Agency Partners include:

Hilton Head: Boys & Girls Club HHI – Christ Lutheran – The Deep Well Project – Holy Family – Providence Presbyterian – St. Andrew by-the-Sea UMC – Sandalwood Community Food Pantry.

 Bluffton: Boys & Girls Club Bluffton – Bluffton Community Kitchen – Bluffton Self Help – The Church of the Cross – Cornerstone Church – Fill the Need at Palmetto Breeze – Mental Health America Island House – St. Andrew Kitchen.

 Beaufort: Allen Chapel – AMI Kids – Brick Baptist – Canaan Missionary Baptist – CAPA – Community Bible – Dale New Church of Christ – Grace Chapel – Grays Hill Deliverance – First African Baptist – HELP of Beaufort – Hopeful Horizons – Huspah Baptist – LIFE Ministries – Meadowbrook Baptist – Mt. Sinai Baptist – New Hope Christian – New Life Deliverance – Port Royal UMC – Praise Assembly – St. Francis Center – Salvation Army – Tidal Creek Fellowship –Unitarian Universalist

 Jasper County: Agape Family Life Center – Antioch Baptist – Creative Church – First Euhaw Baptist – Glorious Church – Healing Waters – Margaret F. Curtis – Mercy Mission – St. Luke’s Baptist – St. Paul Baptist – St. Stephen’s Ridgeland

 Hampton County: Community of One – First Estill Baptist – Hopewell CME – New Abundant Life – Open Arms Fellowship

Second Helpings provides food to our Agency Partners free of charge, and receives no funding from them. As the only agency in Beaufort and Jasper counties authorized to rescue food, we provide a single point of contact for our Food Donors and enable our Agency Partners to focus on local food distribution efforts.

“When that (Second Helpings) truck comes, it is like Christmas. People come running from everywhere. There’s even a lady who sits at her window and waits for the truck. I don’t send anyone home empty-handed.”
– Helen Schuler, St. Stephen’s Food Pantry, Ridgeland

Becoming an Agency Partner

Organizations must be a qualified nonprofit organization and serve those in need in order to become an Agency Partner. While we try to help as many agencies as possible, requests exceed our capabilities. Our focus is to serve the greatest number of people in an area while avoiding duplication of services. Prospective agencies submit an application to our office, and a site visit is scheduled.

Once an agency is accepted as a partner, it will be added to the schedule depending on food availability and area served. Staff and volunteers perform annual site visits, conduct food safety training, and review quarterly reports from all of our Agency Partners. We re-qualify each Agency Partner every year to ensure that they provide the highest quality of service and food to the public.

Please download, read, complete, sign and submit the 2026 Agency Partner Application. It includes:

• The rules and obligations associated with receiving food from Second Helpings.
• Request for information on the number of households and persons served and other information.

We’ve also attached the Agency Site Visit Requirements so agencies can know what we look for when we come out for visits.

Download the 2026 Agency Partner Application

Download the Agency Site Visit Requirements

Please be sure to include all of the information requested. Incomplete applications will not be considered.