Smithfield Foods donates $150,000 to 30 food banks
Smithfield's Helping Hungry Homes program supports local communities experiencing food insecurity.
Shane Smith, president and CEO of Smithfield Foods, and local employees helped pack boxes of food for neighbors in need during a volunteer event at the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank.
Smithfield Foods donated $150,000 to 30 food banks in its 22-state operational footprint to support neighbors in local communities experiencing food insecurity.
“Smithfield believes in the power of community and the importance of supporting hunger relief,” said Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs for Smithfield Foods. “This donation helps provide critical support to our neighbors facing hunger and reflects our continuing commitment to doing good in the places we call home.”
The recipient food banks include:
- Colorado – Food Bank of the Rockies
- Georgia – Atlanta Community Food Bank
- Illinois – Northern Illinois Food Bank
- Indiana – Gleaners and Food Finders Food Bank
- Iowa – Food Bank of Iowa and River Bend Food Bank
- Kansas – Kansas Food Bank
- Kentucky – God’s Pantry Food Bank
- Maryland – Maryland Food Bank
- Massachusetts – Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
- Minnesota – Second Harvest Heartland
- Missouri – Second Harvest Community Food Bank, Harvesters – The Community Food Network, Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri, and Ozarks Food Harvest
- Nebraska – Food Bank for the Heartland and Food Bank of Lincoln
- North Carolina – Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina
- Ohio – Freestore Foodbank
- Oklahoma – Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania – Westmoreland Food Bank
- South Carolina – Harvest Hope Food Bank
- South Dakota – Feeding South Dakota
- Tennessee –Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee
- Utah – Utah Food Bank
- Virginia – Virginia Peninsula Foodbank and Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore
- Wisconsin – Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin
These donations are part of Smithfield’s long-standing commitment to fighting hunger and strengthening the communities where its employees live, work and raise their families.
Smithfield's hunger relief program, Helping Hungry Homes, has provided hundreds of millions of servings of protein in all 50 US states since 2008. Smithfield donated more than 25 million servings of protein, valued at nearly $28 million, to food banks, disaster relief efforts and community outreach programs across the US in 2024.
Source: Smithfield Foods
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