In addition to celebrating its capital investments Wednesday, on August 27 Food Lion associates will lead a volunteer tour of its work with food pantries across its Raleigh-Durham market.
This includes a stopover at the Union Mission Food Pantry Mission Ministry on September 5.
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During these tours, Food Lion Feeds will donate more than 3,900 pounds of food to local pantries and associates will stock the shelves.
Additionally, Food Lion Feeds will provide $5,000 in Food Lion gift cards.
In addition to the volunteer tour, associates volunteer at hunger relief events year-round to support community feeding partners in their mission to nourish neighbors and increase access to nutritious food.
Through Food Lion Feeds, the omnichannel retailer has donated more than 1.2 billion meals to individuals and families since 2014 and has committed to donating 1.5 billion meals by 2025.
This volunteer effort is part of Food Lion Feeds’ annual event, The Great Pantry Makeover, where Food Lion associates remodel and stock the shelves of food pantries across its 10-state operating area to provide sustainable and impactful solutions.
More than 30 organizations will benefit from this effort that takes place every September to align with Hunger Action Month, a time when Food Lion Feeds deepens its extensive relationship with Feeding America.
Food Lion Feeds supports partner food banks to increase access to nutritious food.
Working in partnership to help address food insecurity, Food Lion has contributed $50,000 through its hunger-relief platform, Food Lion Feeds, to benefit the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle in Raleigh.
The investment funds the nonprofit’s culinary apprenticeship program.
Designed to break the cycle of poverty, students gain hands-on culinary training and paid work experience to prepare for careers in the food service industry.
“Our Culinary Apprenticeship Program tackles the root causes of hunger by addressing unemployment, meeting industry demand, and empowering underserved communities,” said L. Ron Pringle, president and CEO of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. “By equipping individuals with culinary skills, we foster economic growth and strengthen food security. We are proud to provide participants with state-of-the-art classroom space, made possible by the unwavering support of Food Lion Feeds, a longtime partner committed to our mission.”
Food Lion Feeds also works with the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. The hunger-relief platform is providing $200,000 toward purchasing a refrigerated tractor-trailer to help support their pop-up markets across the Triangle area, increasing access to nutritious food and enabling them to respond to the rising demand for families experiencing hunger.
The refrigerated truck holds an average of 40,000 pounds of food and will allow the food bank to distribute approximately 700,000 pounds of food throughout the Raleigh area annually.
Additionally, each Food Lion store regularly donates unsaleable edible food that might otherwise go to waste to local feeding agencies to support their clients’ nutritional needs.
More than 20 years ago, Food Lion was the first grocery retailer in the country to establish a food rescue program with Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization.
In 2023, Food Lion stores in the Raleigh-Durham area donated more than 8 million pounds through food rescue to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina in Raleigh, Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina in Fayetteville, and Feed More in Richmond.
