From Hawaii to New Hampshire, C&S Employees Make a Difference
Keene, NH - C&S employees banded together across the country for the 7th consecutive year on Make a Difference Day, Saturday October 24, 2009. Make A Difference Day brings millions of Americans together each October to volunteer in their communities.
Reaching out to local communities, the C&S Make a Difference Day initiative inspired more than 500 employees to roll up their sleeves and volunteer in teams for community-based organizations. “Make A Difference Day is a wonderful demonstration of our employees taking action on behalf of our communities,” said Gina Goff, C&S Director of Community Involvement. “It is a great example of neighbors helping neighbors.” Most of this year’s C&S Make A Difference Day projects were in alignment with the company’s social focus of addressing the issue of hunger, and included:
| Location | Project |
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Buffalo, NY |
Serving dinner at the Friends of Night People soup kitchen |
|
Keene, NH |
Painting the office and dining room at The Community Kitchen |
|
Waianae, HI |
Constructing a lanai, assembling care packages and serving lunch at the Waianae Homeless Shelter |
| Birmingham, AL | Serving lunch at the Shepura Men’s Homeless Center and sprucing up at the Ronald McDonald House |
| Sacramento, CA | Volunteering at the Sacramento Food Bank’s mobile food pantry |
| Manteca, CA | Painting, installing carpet and cubicle dividers, replacing lighting and ceiling tiles at the Second Harvest Food Bank of San Joaquin County |
| Wilkes-Barre, PA | Packing food boxes for local senior citizens at the Weinberg Food Bank |
| Hatfield, MA | Sorting and preparing holiday cards at the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts to launch their holiday season |
| Greenville, SC | Sorting and packing food at the Harvest Hope Food Bank |
| Springfield, MA | Fall sprucing up and general maintenance to Loaves & Fishes food pantry |
| Suffield, CT | Beautifying and green clean up around Harvey Street |
| Elkton, MD | Painting and sprucing up at Cecil County Help Center |
| Brattleboro, VT | Building and painting a wooden storage shed for the Vermont Food Bank |
| Annapolis, MD | Painting two transitional housing apartments for the Lighthouse Homeless Prevention & Support Shelter |
| Bethlehem, PA | Painting at the Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations of the Lehigh Valley’s Senior Citizen’s Center |
| Fresno, CA | Distributing food at the Fresno Food Bank |
| Westfield, MA | Sprucing up at the Cancer House of Hope and serving food to veterans at the Soldier’s Home |
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About C&S Wholesale Grocers
C&S community involvement programs support initiatives to stop hunger and to promote the health and enrichment of communities that are homes to the company's employees and facilities.
C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene, N.H. is the largest food wholesaler and according to Forbes magazine, the 12th largest privately held company in the United States. The company distributes food to supermarkets, retail stores and military bases across the country.
Currently, C&S serves about 3,900 stores from more than 50 locations in 11 states. Among our customers are many of America's best known companies, including Stop & Shop, Giant of Carlisle, Giant of Landover, Shaw's, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P), Ralphs, Safeway and Target.
