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
Since 2009, generous FruitGuys clients have fed more than 1 million people in need through The FruitGuys’ Donate-a-Crate program. Every client is invited to participate, so if your office has never “fruited it forward” before, it’s not too late to join the movement! What is The FruitGuys’ Donate-a-Crate Program? The FruitGuys delivers thousands of boxes of fresh fruit and snacks
Update (January 2025): When this piece was written, Pipcorn was a Black-, queer-, and women-owned business. However, due to changes at the company, it’s no longer Black-, queer-, or women-owned. When Denise Woodard started growing her allergy-friendly cookie company, Partake Foods, she had almost 10 years of experience working at Coca-Cola. But, she said, that food industry knowledge didn’t open
Let’s state the obvious: Working with vendors that give back just feels good. If you’re an office manager or head of HR, you probably feel like dancing when you find a vendor that fits your needs, falls into your budget, and supports causes or communities your company cares about. Of course, identifying partners that check all three of these boxes
If your office will be closed or minimally staffed over the holidays, you have a wonderful opportunity ahead. Instead of skipping your regular fruit or snack delivery, you can donate that holiday box to a local hunger relief organization through The FruitGuys Donate-a-Crate program! Our team makes it easy to forward your delivery to people in need. We have a
As the holiday season approaches, we want to thank you for your business and share how The FruitGuys Donate-a-Crate program makes it easy to forward deliveries or purchase fruit to send to people in need. You can forward your scheduled delivery to any charity on our list of community partners in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix,
Charity, as the old saying goes, may begin at home, but increasingly it’s found its way into America’s home away from home—the workplace. From multinational corporations to mom-and-pop shops, companies vary widely in the ways they and/or their employees give to charitable causes—from formal, year-round, mission-driven campaigns to employee-generated, cause-specific programs. All may offer opportunities for volunteering, direct donations, matching
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 providing healthy food to those who might not otherwise have access to it, The FruitGuys donated more than 616,000 pounds of produce to charitable organizations across the
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