CBS EcoMedia: Photos from 9/16 Event with Forgotten Harvest
/ CBS News
“Without dedicated partners like Bob Evans Farms and CBS EcoMedia, we could not possibly keep our trucks on the road six days a week to meet the needs of the one in five people who face hunger in metro Detroit,” said Marc Berke, Senior Director of Major Gifts from Forgotten Harvest.
Fresh & Healthy Food
Fresh and healthy food that will be provided to over 450 locations that help those in need.
A Truckload of Fresh Food!
Through CBS EcoMedia’s WellnessAd program, Bob Evans will fund the basic needs of Forgotten Harvest’s Mobile Pantry Project at Landmark Church for a full year. This includes costs of distributing the food, sourcing the food, program implementation, and necessary equipment and supplies.
Alex Gonzalez Helps Sort Tomatoes
Bob Evans Director of Field Marketing, Alex Gonzales, helps sort tomatoes. Bob Evans Farms’ support will provide nutritious food to 350 underserved families per month, serving 4,200 individuals annually.
The Bob Evans Team Helps Re-Package Produce for Needy Families
Forgotten Harvest relieves hunger in the Detroit metropolitan community by rescuing surplus, prepared and perishable food and donating it to emergency food providers.
Bob Evans Director of Field Marketing, Alex Gonzales, Prepares Fresh Tomatoes for Delivery
Forgotten Harvest’s Mobile Pantry Project allows the nonprofit to serve more of the underserved and deliver fresh food directly into pockets of communities that have few or no emergency food providers.
Brian Dombek, Market Coach at Bob Evans, Helps to Make a Difference
In 2013, Bob Evans Farms donated 802,828 pounds of food which equated to a fair market value of $3,377,356. In 2014, Bob Evans Farms’ donation to local charities exceeded $3,000,000.
Bob Evans Team Members Prepare Produce for Delivery
Forgotten Harvest carefully selects fresh and healthy food at the distribution center, loads onto refrigerated trucks, and delivers to 69 mobile pantry sites.
Bob Evans' Shelle Foreman Helps Ready Food for the Mobile Pantry
The Mobile Pantry Project rescued and distributed 18.7 million pounds of food in 2013, and will provide more than 22 million pounds in 2014.
Volunteers Inspect Fresh Veggies
According to the USDA, an estimated three million American households are food insecure - that amounts to one in six people who lack the nutritious food needed to live a healthy life. Metro Detroit residents have been hit particularly hard due to the economic downturn. Currently, one in four children in Metro Detroit faces hunger or a lack of food.
Forgotten Harvest was formed in 1990 to fight two problems: hunger and waste.
Forgotten Harvest “rescued” 45.5 million pounds of food last year by collecting surplus prepared and perishable food from 455 sources, including grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, caterers, dairies, farmers, wholesale food distributors and other Health Department-approved sources. This donated food, which would otherwise go to waste, is delivered free-of-charge to 280 emergency food providers in the Metro Detroit area.
BE Kind
Bob Evans Farms’ Hunger Free Communities is a BE Kind initiative that provides a powerful platform for raising awareness and supporting those who are hungry in its communities. In 2013 alone, Bob Evans supplied more than 10 million meals to its neighbors in need.
Give a little. Get back a little more.
Forgotten Harvest offers volunteer opportunities...invest a few hours to help a neighbor!
Forgotten Harvest's Mark Berke & Bob Evans' Alex Gonzales Smile With A Carton of Freshly Re-Packaged Tomatoes!
Forgotten Harvest is the largest "Fresh Foods" food reserve organization in the country. Mark Berke & Alex Gonzalez help feed Metro Detroit’s food-insecure individuals and families.
Driving Hunger From Our Community!
Visit ForgottenHarvest.org for more information about how to help!