General Mills employees helped fight hunger and met a country music star at the same time at a Walmart event last week in Atlanta. Thomas Rhett teamed up with a few of our Covington, Ga., employees to help fill the food gap in the spring when U.S. food banks are traditionally low on supplies. Rhett, from [...]
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» General Mills pledges another $1 million to fight hunger in Minnesota
General Mills has a long history of fighting hunger in Minnesota and around the world. Today, along with Hunger-Free Minnesota, we hosted a Hunger Impact Exchange at our headquarters in Minneapolis. It was aimed at gathering together local business leaders and nonprofits from throughout our home state to showcase ways communities can use an innovative [...]
» Feeding the need in big ways
Our employees are working together this week to help feed hungry families. Our “Feed the Need” Food and Fund Drive kicked off at our Minnesota headquarters on Monday. It has a goal to collect $120,000, in money and food, through March 31. Employee efforts will help stock the shelves at the Twin Cities branch of [...]
» We’re hungry to help
“Partnerships and Priorities: Transforming the Global Food Security Agenda” was the theme of The World Food Prize’s 2012 Borlaug Dialogue, held in Des Moines this week. It is an inspirational symposium where policymakers, governmental leaders, business leaders, scientists and others come together to share ideas and seek collaboration. One of the questions the symposium sought [...]
» Meet Jenna Krings
How many people can say they’ve hung out with some of the biggest names in country music? It’s all in a day’s work for Jenna Krings. As a key part of the Outnumber Hunger project Jenna was able to meet and – as you see in this post – take some pictures with Martina McBride, [...]
» Fighting Hunger Together
I spent part of my day yesterday at an exciting event at a Walmart store in Nashville, Tenn. I was there to support an effort to raise awareness of the need for springtime donations to food banks across the U.S. Walmart invited General Mills, ConAgra, Kraft and the Kellogg Company to an event in the [...]
» News Bites – April 6, 2012
Every Friday we bring you “News Bites,” a collection of links from the week that covered General Mills, the food industry and our categories on “A Taste of General Mills.” We also regularly highlight content from some other General Mills blogs and websites. Notable posts about General Mills: We were thrilled to see “America’s Most [...]
» The faces of hunger
Today, one in six Americans is struggling with hunger. That’s according to Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity and a General Mills partner for more than 25 years. Vicki Escarra, the charity’s president and CEO, tells us hunger is impacting grandparents who have spent their entire lives working and single mothers juggling a [...]
» A shirt that fights hunger
A project in a graphic design class has earned a college student much more than an “A.” Ognen Trpeski, a senior at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., found out this week that his design will be featured on a Cheerios box and on T-shirts worn in Korto Momolu’s fashion show during New York Fashion [...]
» A team with drive
Donation drives to help people in need are familiar holiday scenes. Volunteers collect spare change outside the grocery store, warm coats in the back of church and new toys by the library entrance. We had to do a double take at one particular donation drive. We just had to learn more about the Boiler Crunch [...]
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