Employees at C&S Wholesale Grocers facilities joined millions of volunteers around the country to participate in Make A Difference Day
Keene, NH (November 5, 2012) For the tenth year, employees at C&S Wholesale Grocers facilities joined millions of volunteers around the country to participate in Make A Difference Day, a nationwide day of service sponsored by USA Weekend with HandsOnNetwork, a division of the Points of Light Institute.
Working closely with local nonprofit organizations, C&S organized 21 community service projects, ranging from painting and landscaping to packing backpacks for kids at Food Banks. At the Company’s headquarter offices, 32 employees and family members volunteered during the morning to build shelves, clean the food storage area, and rake gardens at the Phoenix House in Dublin, NH, an agency of the New Hampshire Food Bank agency. “This was a special anniversary year for C&S and our employees,” said Gina Goff, Senior Director of Community Involvement. “Most of our volunteer projects helped groups that focus on hunger, an issue that is especially important to us.”
C&S covers the costs of all materials needed for the Make A Difference Day projects, which included:
| C&S Location | Organization | Project | ||
| Aberdeen, MD | Welcome One Emergency Shelter | Painting & landscaping | ||
| Bethlehem, PA | 2nd Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley | Packing food boxes | ||
| Birmingham, AL | Central Alabama Food Bank | Assembling for the BackPack Program | ||
| Dubois, PA | Dubois Senior & Community Center | Outside winter prep/lawn care | ||
| Gtr Buffalo, NY | Ronald McDonald House | Cooking dinner for families | ||
| Fresno, CA | Community Food Bank of Fresno | Painting | ||
| Hatfield, MA | Food Bank of Western MA | Sorting food | ||
| Hatfield, MA | Ronald McDonald House | Assisting w/food drive | ||
| Hawaii | Hawaii Food Bank | Packing food | ||
| Indianapolis, IN | Gleaners Food Bank | Restocking and organizing the food pantry | ||
| Keene, NH | Phoenix House | Transforming food storage area, garden | ||
| Mauldin, SC | Harvest Hope Food Bank | Painting, cleaning, decorating food drive barrels | ||
| Newburg, NY | Food Bank of the Hudson Valley | Landscaping, cleaning, food distribution | ||
| NorthEast, MD | Settlement House | Painting & organizing food storage area | ||
| Stockton, CA | Stockton Emergency Food Bank | Painting warehouse, packing food | ||
| Suffield, CT | Enfield Food Shelf | Painting, reorganizing, cleaning | ||
| Westfield, MA | Baystate Hospital | Rays of Hope Walk | ||
| Windsor Locks, CT | Foodshare | Sorting and packing food | ||
| Employees in the C&S family of companies also participated: | ||||
| ES3 Keene, NH | Phoenix House | Transforming food storage, garden | ||
| ES3 York, PA | Central PA Food Bank | Organizing 4 truckloads of donated food | ||
| Symbotic, Wilmington,MA | Lowell Food Bank | Stocking/sorting, filling donation bags | ||
| Projects deferred to early in 2013 will include: | ||||
| Brattleboro, VT | VT Food Bank | Various | ||
| Upper Marlboro, MD | Capital Area Food Bank | Assembling Weekender bags | ||
| Sacramento, CA | Food Bank | Assembling winter BackPacks for kids | ||
