Danone North America commits $1.5 million to support food banks and food rescue organizations during coronavirus crisis
Partner organizations nationwide will use the funds to help secure access to healthy food for vulnerable populations facing food shortages.
The closure of workplaces and schools nationwide in the last several weeks is leading to increasing food insecurity for many Americans, including low-income families, housebound individuals and children unable to access free school breakfast and lunch. Danone North America, a producer of dairy products and plant-based dairy alternatives based in White Plains, N.Y., and Broomfield, Colo., said it is donating $1.2 million in funds, plus an additional $300,000 in product donations, to organizations making a local impact on food access in communities across the country.
The donation will include support for New York-based City Harvest and Feeding Westchester, as well as Colorado-based Community Food Share and We Don’t Waste — food access organizations in two states in which Danone North America has headquarters offices and large employee populations. The funds will include donations to food access organizations in the 12 communities nationwide where it makes many of its products, including in California, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Virginia, Danone North America said.