Impact

Record Number of Farms Apply for Grants

By Sheila Cassani on February 24, 2016

Small, independent, and family-run farms need all the help they can get, as evidenced by the record number of applicants for The FruitGuys Community Fund’s 2016 sustainable agriculture grants: in a 55 …

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2015 GoodWorks Annual Report

By Sheila Cassani on February 24, 2016

The FruitGuys donated more than 1.3 million servings of produce directly to those in need during 2015, a new record for the South San Francisco–based company. Nearly 700,000 pounds of fruit and …

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Small Grants, Big Impacts

By Sheila Cassani on September 9, 2015

Reduced carbon footprints and record numbers of pollinators are just a couple highlights of the early results farms are reporting as a result of the agriculture sustainability grants they received …

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World Environment Day 2015

By The FruitGuys on June 5, 2015

World Environment Day, celebrated each year on June 5, was started by the United Nations in 1972 as a campaign to raise awareness about the environment and encourage a positive impact on the planet. …

From Seed to Need

By Sheila Cassani on April 23, 2015

The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, will award small American farms and agricultural nonprofits a total of $35,643 in 2015 for sustainability …

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Fresh Dirt

By Sheila Cassani on February 25, 2015

Beehives, hedgerows, drip irrigation: read the reports from the farms that received sustainability grants from The FruitGuys Community Fund in 2014!

A Fruitful Year of Giving

By Sheila Cassani on January 28, 2015

It's our 2014 GoodWorks annual report, when we check in on how we did at sharing our resources with those in need.

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Support Your Local Food Bank

By Julie Collins on October 2, 2014

In 2014 two enthusiastic teams from The FruitGuys South San Francisco office volunteered on consecutive Fridays at our local San Francisco-Marin Food Bank last month. Our groups helped pack more than …

Alumni Grantees: Class of 2013

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on July 1, 2014

In the Community Fund’s first year of operation, we gave nearly $20,000 in grants to five farms and agricultural nonprofits in California and Pennsylvania. Here are some updates on how their projects …

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Small Farms Get a Hand

By Melissa Nguyen on June 25, 2014

Meet the eight small farms that received sustainability grants from The FruitGuys Community Fund in 2014.

New Funding Resource for Small Farms

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on June 24, 2014

The FruitGuys Community Fund gave sustainability grants to eight small farms and nonprofit organizations in 2014.

2013 GoodWorks

By Miriam Wolf on January 27, 2014

Each year, The FruitGuys GoodWorks program supports people, projects, and good health from the field to the table, and 2013 was a record year for giving. In keeping with the long-held tradition of …

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The FruitGuys Plant a Tree for UMOM

By FruitGuys Staff on December 24, 2013

Since 1964, UMOM has helped Arizona families in need, and The FruitGuys is proud to have such a wonderful organization as one of its community partners. The largest homeless shelter in the state, UMOM …

Moore Oklahoma Relief Effort

By FruitGuys Staff on June 6, 2013

After a tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013, causing widespread devastation, The FruitGuys ferried a whole fleet of fruit donations their way.

2012 GoodWorks

By Pia Hinckle on January 17, 2013

The FruitGuys has formed a new non-profit organization to promote sustainable agriculture practices for small farms, an evolution of the company’s Farm Steward Program, which has provided farmers with …

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Donate-A-Crate 2011 Fed Thousands

By Pia Hinckle on January 10, 2012

During the 2011 holiday season, generous FruitGuys' customers provided thousands of people fresh fruit at 22 community-based organizations across the country. "The produce donation went over …

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FruitGuys Donations are Backbone of Some Food Pantries

By Pia Hinckle on December 13, 2011

In a year when more people continued to struggle with less, The FruitGuys GoodWorks program responded to the realities of the continuing hard economy by making micro-loans to farmers; increasing …

Tagged With: farm, fruit donations, holiday donations, sustainability

The FruitGuys Helps South Philly Refugee Service

By Kim Jordan on December 13, 2011

Photos courtesy of Nationalities Service Center Happy about apples! PHILADELPHIA–Every Monday morning Adam Forbes travels to The FruitGuys' Philadelphia warehouse to load his pick-up truck. …

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More than A Meal

By Pia Hinckle on December 12, 2011

A portrait of the community at St. Anthony's Dining Room in San Francisco, one of the main recipients of FruitGuys fruit donations.

GoodWorks

By Chris Mittelstaedt on December 9, 2011

The college application process was not an easy one for me. I didn’t know where I wanted to go to school, and I had no idea what to say to encapsulate myself in an essay. I finally settled on telling …

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