The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are fighting for the title of Super Bowl LIV champions this Sunday, February 2! We wanted to get in on the fun so, we’re waging a friendly competition between food banks to see who will be the SOUPER Bowl Champion! So cheer on your favorite team by making  a gift in their honor. The city that has the most donors give by Monday, February 3 will be hailed the champion! Every gift large or small will help us continue to provide for our neighbors in need.

Serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, Harvesters provides food and related household products to more than 760 not-for-profit agencies including emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, children’s homes and others. Agencies in Harvesters’ network provide food assistance to as many as 141,500 different people each month. Harvesters, which was founded in 1979, is a certified member of Feeding America, a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks, serving all 50 states. Harvesters was Feeding America’s 2011 Food Bank of the Year.

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank’s mission is to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin, where one in five neighbors is at risk of hunger. We envision a community where everyone is able to obtain enough nutritious food in a dignified manner to support the health and well-being of themselves and their families. We address hunger head-on: from our pantry network and home-delivered groceries, to our nutrition-education classes and food-stamp enrollment, we work in many ways to nourish and empower neighbors in need. Every week, 32,000 households count on us for food assistance. Nearly 60 percent of what we distribute is fresh fruits and vegetables.

Founded in 1974, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley is a trusted leader in ending local hunger and is one of the largest food banks in the nation. The organization distributes healthy groceries through a network of 310 partners at 1,000 sites in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Due to the prohibitively expensive cost of living in Silicon Valley, hunger is at an all-time high as more and more families are forced to sacrifice nutritious food for housing. Second Harvest is helping to keep people healthy by providing enough nutritious food for more than 58 million meals a year — half of which is fresh produce. Second Harvest also connects people to federal nutrition programs and other food resources, and advocates for anti-hunger policies on the local, state and national levels.

1 in 9, or more than 37 million people struggle with hunger in the United States.

Children are more likely to face food insecurity than any other group in the US.

The rate of hunger among seniors age 60 and older has increased by 45% since 2001.

Many households faced with hunger do not qualify for federal nutrition programs.