Second Harvest leadership claim funding sought by Archdiocese [Video]

Members of Second Harvest Food Bank’s board of directors as well as its longtime president and CEO have been terminated amid pressure to help resolve sexual abuse bankruptcy claims, according to a news release issued by a public relations firm. According to the news release, the Archdiocese of New Orleans terminated the non-profit’s Board and CEO Natalie Jayroe after she refused to reallocate donor funding meant to address food insecurity in south Louisiana. The news release claims that the board and Jayroe were under “increasingly aggressive pressure” to contribute as much as $16 million in funding towards the church’s sexual abuse-related bankruptcy. “From the very beginning of our conversations with the Archdiocese and its representatives, which extend as far back as months ago we have stressed the indisputable fact that our agreements with grant giving organizations and other partners prohibit any expenditures that are non-secular or do not directly align …