{"id":276180,"date":"2026-09-01T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:00:14","slug":"helping-harvest-food-bank-shares-ways-to-get-involved-pay-your-part-during-hunger-action-month-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276180\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Harvest Food Bank shares ways to get involved, pay your part during Hunger Action Month | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; September is Hunger Action Month, and Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank is calling on Berks and Schuylkill County neighbors to play their part in ending hunger.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data available from Feeding America\u2019s Map the Meal Gap study, 14.4% of people in Berks County and 14.9% of Schuylkill County residents have experienced food insecurity this year.<\/p>\n<p>The organization says roughly 1 in 7 of your neighbors are unsure of where their next meal is coming from \u2013 including nearly 25,000 children.<\/p>\n<p>Helping Harvest shared several ways to get involved locally this Hunger Action Month:<\/p>\n<p>Contribute to Helping Harvest with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.helpingharvest.org\/donate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.helpingharvest.org\/volunteer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">volunteer<\/a> and give your time where it\u2019s needed most.<\/p>\n<p>Wear orange \u2013 encourage an orange day at your workplace or school to raise awareness for hunger and funds for Helping Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Round up your grocery bill at any GIANT between September 1 and December 31 for proceeds to benefit Helping Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Dine and donate at the Reading Chipotle on Papermill Rd on Tuesday, September 22 from 4-8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Get your car washed at Luxe Car Wash in Wyomissing on Saturday, September 26 to benefit Helping Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Donate items to the organization\u2019s partner CommunityAid, located on Allentown Pike in Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Hunger Action Month Calendar all month long for more ways to get involved this September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; September is Hunger Action Month, and Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank is calling on Berks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,734,2347,15868,7301,2350,31980,115853,128,130,129,231,2404],"class_list":["post-276180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-children","tag-community-support","tag-donation","tag-food-insecurity","tag-fundraiser","tag-helping-harvest","tag-hunger-action-month","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}