GoodWorks

Dessert Foods versus Food Deserts

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

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

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 Balance Needed in Spring

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

Balance feels like something we need these days. Between wild weather (in California at least) and banking instability, finding balance for farmers and the ag industry in general has been a bit of a …

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Donate, Don’t Cancel During Holiday Closures

By The FruitGuys on

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Buy a Box; Save an Apple

By Miriam Wolf on

Like the snowy owl and the snail darter, foods can be endangered too. If farmers stop growing your favorite variety of tomato because it’s too hard to ship or too prone to pests, we come that much …

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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 …

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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 …

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