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Partners for Decades

Our 30-year partnership with PepsiCo is built on our shared mission of providing the food and essentials kids need to grow and thrive. In the last three decades, PepsiCo’s employees have logged more than 36,000 volunteer hours at more than 100 community distribution events, serving nearly 96,000 hungry children and their families. The company’s donations to date total more than $85 million. That’s doing good on a grand scale to help hungry children, and their families get the assistance they need during difficult times.

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Food & Essentials Hubs

As a founding partner of our Food & Essentials Hub program, PepsiCo Foods North America has supported hundreds of schools across the U.S. In the program’s first three years, more than 1.2 million pounds of food and other products valued at $12 million were distributed. The program has served more than 123,000 students and families with impressive results.

This past school year, Feed the Children’s Food & Essentials Hubs, with PepsiCo’s help, delivered food and essentials to more than 370 schools in 9 school districts across the country providing over 346,000 meals and helping more than 58,000 students. This included shelf-stable food, essential household and personal care items, school supplies, books and miscellaneous products valued at over 5.6 million dollars.

Through its partnership with Feed the Children, PepsiCo is having an even greater impact by helping to create a space that provides access to shelf-stable food and essentials to close the gap so kids can thrive with confidence in school.

District Testimonials

One family consisted of two PXU students and the Parent (single Mom) who was an employee. This family received regular support from the resource center hub throughout the school year and heavily relied on our support for laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, hygiene and food to supplement the monthly household food budget.
We had an unexpected influx of refugee students that enrolled in a southern Dallas school, and our school contact immediately called on us to assist with supporting those families. The timing was perfect because we had just received a delivery, and the school was immediately able to send the school counselor over to pick up hygiene items, pre-packaged meals, and school supplies at the distribution site to distribute to the families.
We had a family that tragically lost their mom and the grandmother had to take in her 5 grandchildren. We sit a box aside monthly for the grandparent to come pick up and she always says how helpful the items are for her and her grandchildren.