Impacting our community

How We Got Here

As our company has grown, so has our commitment to the community. Knowing that 40 million Americans face hunger each day, we constantly support feeding local families, reducing food waste, and helping create a more sustainable environment.  Over the past 8 years we have shared:

• More than 8.3 million servings of food
• Almost $2.8 million in resources
• Rescued almost 30 million pounds of food from going to waste in 2020 alone

Project SERVE Key Initiatives

Our corporate social responsibility initiatives allows us to divide our resources into five areas of focus that allow us to honor our commitment to the community. The five program initiatives include:

Secure Food and Funding

Help alleviate food insecurity by matching food and funds with communities in need.

• Partner with key community stakeholders to distribute food to the greatest need
• Use National Food Group resources to assess and eliminate issues with food accessibility
• Participate in community focused programs on preparing affordable and nutritious meals
• Work with National Food Group vendors and customers to support food accessibility in their own communities

Educate

Provide opportunities and resources for students of all ages and backgrounds to learn about the food industry and its many career paths.

• Offer student scholarships to help provide culinary training to secure employment in the food industry
• Organize internships to give real experience to high school and college student
• Attend career days at schools to encourage and educate a diverse population on the food industry
• Partner with local agencies and programs to teach children about healthy and affordable eating to support food accessibility in their own communities

Respect Diversity

Focus on being a leader in the industry for an inclusive and equitable environment.

• Celebrate the diversity in our world and within our teams
• Strengthen current policy of inclusion by incorporating implicit bias training in our onboarding and for current employees
• Expand current recruiting pools to include a more diverse candidate base. (targeted advertisement, recruitment fairs, and personal connections)
• Partner with local organizations and schools to recruit interns from high need communities and provide resources to any barriers students may have

Volunteer

Improve the lives of our neighbors through use of our time, talents, and treasures.

• Support National Food Group employees in donating 1000 hour of their time to local organizations
• Provide a $500 grant to any organization with at least 30 hours of NFG collective employee volunteer service
• Sponsor community events and programs that engage employees, partners and customers
• Participate at a leadership level in organizations that support Project SERVE initiatives
• Provide an employee giving program where team members can volunteer their dollars through payroll deduction, with quarterly vote to select recipient organization

Elevate Sustainability

Continue and expand sustainability practices at National Food Group with help from our customers and vendors.

• Help reduce food waste through programs such as Opportunity Buys® that redirects wholesome, quality food to new markets
• Employ environmental sustainability practices in our offices where possible, like LED and motion sensor lights, water bottle filling stations, and recycling programs
• Partner with customers to meet zero waste and environmental programs
• Enable our Logistics teams to optimize shipping loads for efficient fuel use
• Employ recyclable and/or sustainability sourced packaging where possible/li>
• Seek out suppliers that are using sustainable practices

2021 Project Serve Annual Report

We are proud to share what 2021 brought us in our first annual report
Click Here To Download The 2021 Project SERVE Annual Report

Learn More and Connect:

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