The mission of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks is to assist Second Harvest Foodbanks in Ohio in providing food and other resources to people in need and to pursue areas of common interest for the benefit of people in need. The Association represents 12 regional Second Harvest Food Banks. OASHF manages several programs including the Ohio Food Program and the Ohio Agricultural Clearance Program.

The Ohio Food Program is funded through the state of Ohio and provides non-perishable food items to emergency food providers. The Ohio Agricultural Clearance Program (OACP) is a statewide effort to direct Ohio’s surplus of agricultural products through the network of foodbanks in our state to ensure that Ohio families have a source of nutritious, Ohio‑grown/raised, and produced food products. OACP works with Ohio’s agricultural community and commodity groups to provide foodbanks with surplus and unmarketable agricultural products at production cost.