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The FruitGuys Ranks 46th on Real Leaders’ List of Top Impact Companies Worldwide

The FruitGuys Ranks 46th on Real Leaders’ List of Top Impact Companies Worldwide

Real Leaders® just announced its 2026 list of the Top Impact Companies, and The FruitGuys ranked 46th out of 125 worldwide! Every year, Real Leaders® sifts through hundreds of applicants and highlights only the most socially and environmentally responsible businesses. The FruitGuys has made the prestigious Impact Awards list every year since 2023. “Being recognized again by Real Leaders is

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The FruitGuys' 2025 Impact: Over 1 Million Servings Donated

The FruitGuys’ 2025 Impact: Over 1 Million Servings Donated

Let’s play a game. Every week, The FruitGuys donates fresh fruit, veggies, and snacks to feed people in need across the country. It’s not a big percentage of what we deliver, but it really adds up. So, how much do you think we donated in 2025? In 2025, The FruitGuys donated enough food to feed people in… 15 sold-out NFL

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Donated Fruit Helps Build Community in New York City

Donated Fruit Helps Build Community in New York City

Imagine stepping onto the street in New York City’s Washington Heights, a vibrant neighborhood known for its rich culture, mix of languages, and deep sense of community. Bodegas run by generations of Dominican families anchor busy corners, children spill out of schools, and neighbors greet each other like family. In this close-knit community, many residents are supported—directly or indirectly—by Community

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A Thanksgiving Note from Our CEO

A Thanksgiving Note from Our CEO

It’s dinner time on a Tuesday in September, and we’re starting a new family tradition: sharing something we’re grateful for before we eat. Our five-year-old wants to go first. “I’ll start, I’ll start!” he says. He pauses for effect, then declares, “I’m grateful for poo-poo and butts!” Our nine-year-old cracks up, and my wife and I try not to smirk.

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Nourishing Neighbors: Our Partnership with Sumner Community Food Bank

A Fruitful Partnership with Sumner Community Food Bank

In Sumner, Washington—a small town about an hour south of Seattle—there’s a grocery store that’s entirely free. “You make an appointment, you check in at our kiosk, and then you’re given a shopping cart and you can stroll through our shopping area and pick the foods that you want, depending on what’s available,” explained Bill Petersen. “There are limits on

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Donate-a-Crate Makes Corporate Giving Easy (and Tasty!)

Donate-a-Crate Makes Corporate Giving Easy and Tasty

One of the things I love the most about working at The FruitGuys is that we have truly amazing clients. There’s a real desire in our community to come together and help each other through corporate giving, especially in hard times like the government shutdown we’re facing right now. Last week, I posted a blog about The FruitGuys’ grocery donation

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The FruitGuys Delivers Fresh Groceries to 200 Federal Workers

The FruitGuys Delivers Fresh Groceries to 200 Federal Workers

To me, federal workers aren’t just anonymous people in suits in Washington, DC. They’re the friends and neighbors who make sure my mail gets delivered, my kids can visit national parks, and my flights can land safely (including the one I’m on right now). Many of those workers aren’t getting paychecks this week because of the government shutdown. So The

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APC and The FruitGuys Partner Up to Donate Fruit to Californians in Need

APC and The FruitGuys Partner Up to Donate Fruit to Californians in Need

When the Palisades and Eaton fires swept through Southern California in January 2025, thousands of families were already living on the edge. Homelessness across the state had reached record highs the year before, and the fires compounded the crisis—displacing residents, straining local resources, and leaving many struggling to access food. Six months later, many of those families were still in

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The FruitGuys Partners with RTW to Feed Chicago Veterans

The FruitGuys Partners with RTW to Feed Chicago Veterans

Every Thursday morning, Wilbert Taylor pulls up to The FruitGuys’ Chicago warehouse in his truck. He pops open the back, says hello to Receiving Supervisor Jack Reed, and starts filling the truck with boxes of bananas, apples, oranges, and other fresh fruit. This is just one stop on Wilbert’s weekly rounds picking up donated groceries for Remake the World Veteran

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FruitGuys Clients Help Project Open Hand Feed Sick Californians

FruitGuys Clients Help Project Open Hand Feed Sick Californians

Businesses ordering fresh produce and snacks from The FruitGuys can choose to have their food delivered or to “fruit it forward” to a local hunger relief organization. At Project Open Hand—which provides fresh produce and medically tailored meals to sick, elderly, and homebound people in California—those donations can be life-changing, especially around the holidays. “[Last holiday season], we received an

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The FruitGuys Donates Fresh Fruit to LA Firefighters and Evacuees

The FruitGuys Donates Fresh Fruit to LA Firefighters and Evacuees

I had a plan for what to write in this week’s Chief Banana blog—but the truth is, I haven’t been able to think about much other than the horrific, fast-moving wildfires in Los Angeles since they erupted overnight last week. As I write this, the fires are still mostly uncontained. Whether you have a personal connection to the LA area

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What’s Coming for The FruitGuys? Looking Ahead to 2025

What’s Coming for The FruitGuys? Looking Ahead to 2025

I have a confession to make. I’m not a big resolution person. It’s not that I don’t set goals—I just have a habit of “setting and forgetting” resolutions. So on New Year’s, I try to ask myself a question instead: What do I want for the year ahead? My 2025 ‘Wants’ for The FruitGuys As I look forward to 2025,

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A Very Mittelstaedt Christmas: TSA Pat Downs and Other Traditions

A few days ago, I was talking to my wife and kids about family holiday traditions when one of our sons piped up. “I think getting stopped by TSA is our holiday tradition,” he said. He actually had a point—we’re not world travelers, but on most holidays we visit family, and both sets of our parents live a plane ride

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The FruitGuys and HGFB Team Up to Feed Those In Need

The FruitGuys and HGFB Team Up to Feed Those In Need

It’s bright and early on a Monday morning, and the team at Hawaiian Gardens Food Bank in Hawaiian Gardens, California, is busy packing bags to hand out to the community. Each one includes grains, canned goods, juice, tortillas, bread, and a few pieces of produce that Melisa Halloran, the food bank’s purchasing agent, managed to find for a good price.

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The FruitGuys Helps UMOM Reduce Hunger and Homelessness

The FruitGuys Helps UMOM Reduce Hunger and Homelessness

Every week, one of The FruitGuys’ fruit donations for hunger relief arrives at United Methodist Outreach Ministries New Day Centers (UMOM) in Phoenix, Arizona. One donation might be bruised apples. Another week, the UMOM team could unbox scarred but tasty oranges, or pears that are too soft to ship but still sweet to eat. Whatever’s inside, it’s up to Residential

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Sheila Cassani, FruitGuys Head of Impact

How B Corps Make a Difference: A Q&A With The FruitGuys

March is National B Corp Month, and to kick off the festivities we sat down with The FruitGuys’ Head of Impact, Sheila Cassani. We brought a few FAQs about B Corps with us — and Sheila shared her answers. Read on to hear her thoughts on what a B Corp is, how B Corps make a difference, why we became

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2018 GoodWorks Annual Report

The FruitGuys has donated nearly eight million servings of farm-fresh fruit to people in need across the United States over the last five years, with almost 2 million servings in 2018 alone. The FruitGuys GoodWorks program fights hunger through direct produce donations from our warehouses and from generous FruitGuys clients via our Donate-a-Crate program. As the nonprofit arm of the

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2012 GoodWorks

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 aid since 2008. “We thought that the development of a non-profit entity was important so that we could help more small farmers across the U.S.,” said FruitGuys founder and CEO Chris

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