20 BY 30 CHALLENGE GOALS
We focus our philanthropic efforts on three areas: hunger, education and supporting the local communities in which we operate. These efforts closely align with our business initiatives, and over the years we’ve learned they are also the areas our team members are most passionate about. In our quest to help others, and as part of our 20 By 30 Challenge, we are striving to achieve the following goals by 2030:
- Provide the equivalent of 70 million meals through cash and product donations to those in need.*
- Create a food-secure community program and share our blueprint and findings globally.
- Provide the opportunity of a free two-year college education for all of our team members’ high school graduates.
These ambitions help support UN Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 10.
We are pleased to report that we contributed $8.5 million in cash and products to help others in 2021. This included $6.6 million in hunger-relief donations (or more than 8.4 million individual meals*), our donation of 2.1 million cans of SPAMMY® (a shelf-stable poultry product to help prevent childhood malnutrition in Guatemala) and more than $960,000 to support educational institutions and our Inspired Pathways program students.
Our groundbreaking Inspired Pathways program provides the opportunity of a free two-year college education to the dependent children of our team members. This monumental program helps many first-generation college students. We welcomed our first class of Inspired Pathways students in the 2021-2022 academic year. You can find out more about our contributions and philanthropic efforts in the hunger and philanthropy sections of this report.
