Sodexo and the Fight Against Hunger
As the leading provider of Quality of Daily Life Solutions, fighting hunger is the focus of our community service efforts.
Every day, Sodexo serves hundreds of thousands of nutritious meals. Yet across our nation, more than 50 million people are at-risk of hunger, including 17 million children. As the leading provider of Quality of Daily Life Solutions, fighting hunger is the focus of our community service efforts. To that end, we created the Sodexo Foundation, a not-for-profit organization committed to ending childhood hunger in America.
Sodexo Foundation
Founded in 1999, the Sodexo Foundation works to ensure that every child in the United States, especially those most at-risk, grows up with dependable access to enough nutritious food to enable them to lead a healthy, productive life. Funding for the Foundation comes from Sodexo, with additional funding coming through employee payroll deductions and contributions. Additionally, we receive many generous donations from our vendor partners. The company pays all administrative costs of the Foundation to ensure that 100 percent of the money raised goes directly to those in need.
Feeding Our Future®
Across the United States, more than 89% of children who depend on federal food programs for free and reduced price lunches during the school year go without nutritious lunches during the summer-that's more than 17 million children. Since 1997, Sodexo has provided more than 2.5 million free summer lunches to children through Feeding Our Future®.
Food Donations
Sodexo Foundation, Sodexo, Inc. and its employees provide financial support to groups and organizations, volunteer their time, and supply facilities with food donations that play an important part in fighting hunger. Sodexo donates surplus perishable and non-perishable food to Feeding America members and other local food banks and pantries across the country.
Sodexo Servathon
Every April, Sodexo employees work together through Sodexo Servathon to raise money, donate food, and volunteer their time to serve meals to families in need. Projects vary from city to city across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and include fundraisers, canned food drives and donations of surplus food, and volunteering at food banks - to name a few. Last year, Sodexo Servathon resulted in more than 33,000 Sodexo employees, clients and customers donating food, and raising more than $110,000 to help those in need.
STOP Hunger Scholarships
As part of its commitment, the Sodexo Foundation wants to engage and reward students who are driving awareness and mobilizing youth to be catalysts for innovative models and solutions to eliminate childhood hunger. The STOP Hunger Scholarships recognize and reward students who have made a significant impact.
Heroes of Everyday Life®
The Sodexo Foundation is indebted to the commitment and the efforts of Sodexo employees who donate their time and money to Sodexo Foundation-supported initiatives. The Heroes of Everyday Life® program was created to honor those who have demonstrated exemplary service to others in the fight against hunger.
