AUBURN — AdvancePierre Foods and hundreds of its associates celebrated the company’s third annual Volunteer Day on Aug. 22 by donating time and food products to support local nonprofit food distribution and youth organizations.
The volunteer activities, which included packaging items for child feeding programs, assisting with mobile food pantry distribution, organizing items at food pantry warehouses, planting vegetable gardens and sprucing up community youth facilities, were held in conjunction with food banks near AdvancePierre Foods’ manufacturing facilities in eight cities across the country.
Volunteers from AdvancePierre Foods’ Portland facility supported the Good Shepherd Food-Bank, enthusiastically sorting and organizing food items for the organization.
“We greatly value and appreciate the generosity of companies throughout Maine that provide our community with the food it so greatly needs,” said Tia Harris, volunteer coordinator at Good Shepherd Food-Bank. “We would like to send our sincere gratitude to AdvancePierre Foods and their associates for making a difference in our community.”
In addition to the hundreds of hours that AdvancePierre Foods’ associates from Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina contributed on Volunteer Day, the company also donated thousands of pounds of AdvancePierre Foods products.
“Volunteering at the Good Shepherd Food-Bank was a very rewarding Volunteer Day project for our associates,” said Carmon Chabot, human resource manager at AdvancePierre Foods. “We value the communities we serve and know that our efforts will benefit the food bank and allow them to better serve local residents in need.”
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- AdvancePierre Foods associates gave back to local families in need at the third annual Volunteer Day Event. They supported the Good Shepherd Food-Bank in Auburn.
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