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GNP Company™, the Midwest’s leading chicken producer of the Gold’n Plump® and Just BARE® chicken brands, has been named a 2016 Hunger Hero Food Award recipient by Second Harvest Heartland in a March 31 ceremony at Second Harvest Heartland’s Golden Valley headquarters.
The Hunger Hero Award, now in its seventh year, recognizes organizations that make a “compassionate and transformational impact on people in need in Minnesota and Wisconsin.”
GNP Company has supported Second Harvest Heartland for 12 years and was acknowledged as the food bank’s largest food donor in 2015 for donating 1.7 million meals worth of chicken last year.
“As a food company, we appreciate all of the hard work of the Second Harvest Heartland team in building awareness about food insecurity in our local communities,” said Paul Helgeson, sustainability manager for GNP Company.
“Good organizations tend to find one another. We appreciate our partnership with Second Harvest Heartland, because they are helping us live our mission of ‘dedicated to healthy food, families, and farms.’”
According to Second Harvest Heartland, one of the largest and most efficient food banks in the United States, one in 10 people in Minnesota and western Wisconsin experience the stress of hunger on any given day. The food bank delivered 77 million meals in the region last year.