This year, Move For Hunger was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Albertsons Companies Foundation, the foundation of the second-largest supermarket chain in North America. They operate almost 3,000 stores under about 20 different chains located mostly on the West Coast and Southwest. The fund was developed to help families impacted by COVID-19 and is distributed to food banks to purchase food, school districts to deliver meals to kids who rely on them, and organizations working to get food to seniors.
Move For Hunger has been around for over a decade and has been helping transport and distribute food to food banks and pantries in all 50 states. These meals not only benefit seniors, but kids, families, and any individual needing food.
Food banks are currently being overwhelmed with demand. It’s estimated that they are seeing nearly a 60% increase this year in traffic as more than 50 million Americans are now considered food insecure (up from the 37 million people estimated in 2019).
Move For Hunger is helping meet this need with a record year of food distribution in 2020. The organization is closing in on 5 million lbs transported for the year which would be over 4 million meals. This has been made possible in part from the generous grant from the Albertsons Companies Foundation. 96 cents from every dollar received goes towards our programs that rescue food, host food drives, and transport food to local food banks.
Do you want to get involved? Learn more about hosting a food drive or fundraiser and help end hunger!
