As we mirror again on one other difficult yr, we’re extremely grateful for our purchasers and their optimistic influence on individuals and the planet by way of The FruitGuys GoodWorks Packages. Collectively in 2021, we fed almost 1 million individuals in want and helped maintain small farms.
“In one other troublesome yr for farms and small companies like ours, we’re so grateful for the purchasers that ordered fruit for his or her workers and those who have been closed however generously forwarded their orders by way of our Donate-a-Crate program,” stated Chris Mittelstaedt, The FruitGuys Founder and CEO. “Regardless of the challenges, we have been nonetheless capable of donate wholesome meals to these in want and supply grants to small farms for sustainability initiatives with the assistance of donors to our Assist Farms, Assist Our Planet marketing campaign. ”
Our family-owned and operated B Corp enterprise has donated extra fruit and produce every week since 1998 to area people organizations to assist these experiencing starvation and to get rid of meals waste. We’ve constructed relationships with greater than 200 small, unbiased farms and meals producers throughout the U.S. and stay devoted to constructing long-term relationships with growers of distinctive produce and powerful stewards of the land.
We help this mission by donating a minimal worth of 20% annual earnings to struggle starvation and help sustainable farming practices
Over time we’ve got expanded our applications to incorporate methods for purchasers and people to instantly give again. By way of the Donate-a-Crate program, your weekly order will be forwarded to a starvation reduction accomplice or to an area charity of your selection. Since 2012, our non-profit, The FruitGuys Group Fund has offered grants to small farms for sustainability initiatives which have massive optimistic impacts on the surroundings, native meals techniques, and farm variety. From August 2020 to January 2022, The FoodWorks Fund nonprofit turned 100% tax-deductible donations into packing containers with every week’s value of recent vegatables and fruits and delivered them to starvation reduction group accomplice organizations for distribution to these in want.
“It’s extremely humbling that so many have supported our efforts to provide again regardless of the challenges during the last yr,” stated Sheila Cassani, FruitGuys Mission Engagement Supervisor. “The pandemic has taught us there isn’t a proper reply in decision-making. There are merely selections. How are you going to decrease damaging impacts and maximize optimistic ones?”
We’re particularly grateful to our purchasers who caught with us by way of 2021; our FruitGuys staff members; farm companions and distributors; and group companions; in addition to all the companies and people who generously gave. All collectively we helped make so many individuals’s lives a bit of higher in 2021!
