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Fruit & Snack Gift Boxes: Healthy Employee Gifts Are Here!

By The FruitGuys on October 4, 2024

Can you believe it’s Q4 already? Before you know it, your coworkers will be picking up turkeys, buying new candles, and humming holiday jingles between meetings. With the seasonal hubbub on the …

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Inc.’s 2023 Best In Business Awards Recognize The FruitGuys

By Lex Flamm on January 16, 2024

We’re sharing fistbumps and high-fives at FruitGuys headquarters today in celebration of a big achievement: We just received one of Inc.’s 2023 Best In Business Awards! The award recognizes our recent …

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Dessert Foods versus Food Deserts

By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 22, 2023

I wasn’t really a very good student. Luckily in elementary school, I had a great teacher who helped me after school with my spelling. Her name was Mrs. Unruh. She used to devise little tricks to help …

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Leaping into Spring: Our 25 Year Impact Report

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 2, 2023

I was once told by a trusted friend that, for impatient people like me who sometimes think that acting fast produces a greater result in a shorter amount of time, it is actually the ability to slow …

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The FruitGuys Awarded B Corp Best for the World

By Pia Hinckle on July 13, 2022

The FruitGuys has been named a 2022 Best for the World™ B Corp™ in recognition of its exceptional positive impact in the Community category. Best for the World is a distinction granted to Certified B …

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2021: A Year of Positive Impact

By Sheila Cassani on February 1, 2022

As we reflect back on another challenging year, we are incredibly grateful for our clients and their positive impact on people and the planet through The FruitGuys GoodWorks Programs. Together in …

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Doing Good in the Worst Year: Our 2020 Impact Report

By Pia Hinckle on February 2, 2021

2020 was a terrible year and yet the generosity of our community allowed us to bring healthy food to nearly two million people: neighbors in need, frontline healthcare workers, and public school kids …

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The FoodWorks Fund: Fighting Hunger & Helping Small Farms

By The FruitGuys on September 2, 2020

The FruitGuys has created a new non-profit project to support its long-standing hunger relief mission. The FoodWorks Fund, a fiscally-sponsored project of Community Initiatives, provides direct …

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