GoodWorks

Women Growing Change: The Class of 2022 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees

By Pia Hinckle on

A diverse group of women farmers dominate the 2022 class of grantees for The FruitGuys Community Fund, the nonprofit’s 10th year of providing grants to small farms and agricultural nonprofits that …

2021: A Year of Positive Impact

By Sheila Cassani on

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 …

The FruitGuys Community Fund Announces 2022 Grant Cycle

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on

Small Farms are critical partners of the environment with a special role in its stewardship and as agents of climate stabilization. The FruitGuys Community Fund provides grants of up to $5,000 each to …

Donate, Don’t Cancel This Holiday Season

By The FruitGuys on

As the holidays approach, we want to thank you for your business, which has supported our family-owned and operated company through this transitional recovery year, and share how you can easily …

Announcing The FruitGuys Community Fund 2021 Farm Grantees

By The FruitGuys on

Despite funding setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit founded by office fruit delivery pioneers and certified B Corp The FruitGuys, is pleased to announce …

First Farm Visit of 2021: Rancho Charanda

By Miguel Esteban Robles on

I visited Paul Rodriguez's farm, Rancho Charanda, in Redlands, CA on February 24, 2021. I had been worried about taking the time because of all of my other responsibilities in the office, but …

Rebecca North Honored by EcoFarm

By Pia Hinckle on

Rebecca North, The FruitGuys Senior Buyer and chief Fruit Detective, has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Golden Pliers Award from the Ecological Farming Association (EcoFarm).  According to …

Doing Good in the Worst Year: Our 2020 Impact Report

By Pia Hinckle on

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 …

Farm Grantees Make Progress Despite Pandemic

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on

The FruitGuys Community Fund 2020 grantee farms have sent us their interim updates, and in spite of the pandemic, these farms and organizations have done some incredible work! These 15 small farms and …

The FoodWorks Fund: Fighting Hunger & Helping Small Farms

By The FruitGuys on

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 …

The 2020 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on

During the COVID-19 crisis, small farms are showing once again just how essential they are to keeping our local communities fed, healthy, and functioning. The FruitGuys Community Fund is excited to …

The FruitGuys Response to COVID-19

By The FruitGuys on

March 2020 We will get to the other side of this---together. We wish you, your employees, your vendors, your customers, and their families the best, and especially good health. Please let us know of …

We’re B Corp Certified!

By The FruitGuys on

The FruitGuys is now a certified B Corp, joining the ranks of socially-responsible companies such as Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s, Kleen Kanteen, and Clover Sonoma that all make a commitment to …

Volunteer and Help Save a Farm

By The FruitGuys on

The FruitGuys knows that small grants can have big impacts on independent farms. That’s why in 2012 we founded The FruitGuys Community Fund, a non-profit that provides grant awards of up to $5,000 to …

Fruition of the Ugly Truth

By Phat Beets Produce on

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on December 2, 2019 on the Phat Beets Produce blog. It is re-published here, with permission and unedited. Find out more about The FruitGuys many …

The FruitGuys 20-Year Impact Report Highlights

By The FruitGuys on

The FruitGuys, the nation’s leader in providing farm-fresh fruit and other healthy, thoughtful snacks to the American workplace, released its 20-year Impact Report summarizing its efforts to feed the …

Eat the Endangered Gravenstein Apple

By Pia Hinckle on

“Farming is a complex math problem,” sighs Dave Hale as he looks sadly at piles of wood chips that had been Gravenstein apple trees in the lot next to his thriving Sebastopol, CA, orchard. He tended …

2018 GoodWorks Annual Report

By Elisabeth Flynn on

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 …

The FruitGuys Donate-a-Crate Program

By Elisabeth Flynn on

Did you know you can help people in need by forwarding your fruit box to a charity in your area? As the holidays approach, we wanted to not only thank you for your business but also share how The …

Lucky 13

By Sheila Cassani on

In 2018-- the sixth year of awarding small grants with big impacts to American farms and agricultural nonprofits-- The FruitGuys Community Fund announced its largest class of grantees so far: 13 …

2017 GoodWorks Annual Report

By The FruitGuys GoodWorks on

The FruitGuys GoodWorks Program had a record year in 2017, donating more than two million servings of fresh fruit to hungry people across the country and providing fruit to first responders and …

Grow Good: 2017 Community Fund Grants Awarded

By Sheila Cassani on

The FruitGuys Community Fund is pleased to introduce the 2017 class of farm grantees. In 2017, the project awarded ten small American farms and agricultural nonprofits a total of $42,913 in funding …

2016 GoodWorks Annual Report

By Sheila Cassani on

The FruitGuys has been making produce donations since it started back in 1998, but in 2016, the company set a new record, donating more than 2 million servings of fruit and produce to those in need …

Funding for Small Sustainable Farms Breaks New Ground

By Sheila Cassani on

This year, The FruitGuys Community Fund increased the number of grants awarded to small American farms and agricultural nonprofits to 10, providing a total of $40,133 in funding for sustainable …

Record Number of Farms Apply for Grants

By Sheila Cassani on

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 …

2015 GoodWorks Annual Report

By Sheila Cassani on

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 …

Small Grants, Big Impacts

By Sheila Cassani on

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 …

World Environment Day 2015

By The FruitGuys on

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

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 …

Fresh Dirt

By Sheila Cassani on

The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, awarded small farms and agricultural nonprofits $30,000 in 2014 for sustainability projects intended to …

A Fruitful Year of Giving

By Sheila Cassani on

Since the company’s inception, giving back has been part of The FruitGuys mission. In 1998, we started donating fresh produce to local charities to provide healthy food to those who might not …

Support Your Local Food Bank

By Julie Collins on

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

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 …

Small Farms Get a Hand

By Melissa Nguyen on

Family farms of different sizes and generations, as well as non-profit organizations that serve schools and urban and rural lower-income areas,  are among the recipients of the 2014 The FruitGuys …

New Funding Resource for Small Farms

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on

SAN FRANCISCO — Family farms of different sizes and generations, as well as non-profit organizations that serve schools and the urban and rural poor, are among the recipients of the 2014 The FruitGuys …

2013 GoodWorks

By Miriam Wolf on

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 …

The FruitGuys Plant a Tree for UMOM

By FruitGuys Staff on

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

At 2:56 pm, Monday, 20 May 2013, an F5 category tornado touched down west of Newcastle, Oklahoma, and headed toward the town of Moore. The tornado stayed on the ground for 39 minutes and covered a …

2012 GoodWorks

By Pia Hinckle on

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 …

Donate-A-Crate 2011 Fed Thousands

By Pia Hinckle on

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 …

FruitGuys Donations are Backbone of Some Food Pantries

By Pia Hinckle on

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 …

The FruitGuys Helps South Philly Refugee Service

By Kim Jordan on

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. …

More than A Meal

By Pia Hinckle on

Photos courtesy of St. Anthony's Dining Room SAN FRANCISCO — Andrew Hudson is holding a pear in his left hand and wearing a big smile. “I love fruit! Oranges, plums, nectarines. Fruit is good for …

GoodWorks

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

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 …

A Fruitful Partnership Grows Roots to Educate Philly Youth

By Bridget Meigs on

The FruitGuys Philadelphia team helped green urban West Philadelphia by sponsoring a fall planting at the Walnut Hill Community Farm through POP (Philadelphia Orchard …

Capay Valley Collaborative Seeks Patron: Support the Legendary Capay Valley Farm Community

By Candace Gale on

The FruitGuys Farm Steward mission is to promote sustainable farming practices that have no negative impact on the environment and add long-term social and economic value to the farm and farming …

Preservation Harvest plums now available on West Coast

By The FruitGuys on

Introducing Preservation Harvest—produce that makes a difference. Buying plums can help save a farm and make healthier land. West Coast customers, get a box of 25 refreshing Black Amber Plums from …

I’ll Meet You on the Farm

By Bridget Meigs on

Warm spring weather is waking up the farmer in me. I suddenly have the urge to sink my hands into the soil and grow greens, tomatoes, potatoes – you name it. A new resident of Philadelphia, I was not …

Owl Update

By The FruitGuys on

You can tell from the photos that the owls are feeling very much at home in the owl boxes that The FruitGuys installed at Kauffman's Fruit Farm in Bird-in-Hand, PA. We hope that we will soon be …

Good Fruit = GoodWorks

By The FruitGuys on

The FruitGuys GoodWorks Project includes our Farm Steward and Community Outreach programs which have donated thousands of pieces of fruit to charitable organizations nationwide. Our Farm Steward …

Worldwide Wellness – Making a Difference

By FruitGuys Staff on

Congratulations to our fabulous farmer friend and environmental steward, Allen Harthorn of Harpo Organics, who grows succulent organic Valencia oranges in Ventura County. Allen Harthorn and wife, …

None of Your Beeswax! (The Get-The-Bees Address)

By FruitGuys Staff on

Four hives and five months ago, The FruitGuys brought forth to Gabriel Farm a prodigious gift of pollination, conceived in the spirit of Farm Stewardship and dedicated to the proposition that all …

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