ConAgra Foods, Maple Grove, MN packs food for needy

Approximately 125 employees from the ConAgra Foods, Maple Grove plant participated in the company's annual "Week of Service". From April 5-19 nationwide employees volunteered in packing food to help fight child hunger in the communities in which they live and work. The Maple Grove plant is one of nine ConAgra Foods locations that partnered with Kids Against Hunger to pack more than 1.3 million  meals that was donated to families in need. The Maple Grove plant alone packed over 7,700 meals.

ConAgra Foods’ Week of Service is just one component of ConAgra Foods’ commitment to raising awareness of and ending child hunger.

More than one in five children and more than one in three Latino children in this country may not know where their next meal is coming from. ¹ Children who experience even intermittent struggles with hunger may suffer serious, long-term consequences to their health, well-being and educational achievement.²  

For 20 years, ConAgra Foods and the ConAgra Foods Foundation have provided funds, expertise and food to fight child hunger. Since 1993, the company and its Foundation have collectively provided more than 302 million pounds of food and invested more than $37 million in capacity building, child hunger programs and groundbreaking research. The Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity primarily funded by the company, is in the midst of a $10 million, 5-year commitment to Feeding America, the largest donation ever made to Feeding America specifically to fight child hunger.

^{See USDA, Household Food Security in the United States in 2011, ERR-141 (Sept. 2012)}

²http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hunger/child-development.aspx