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Partnering with Yolo Food Bank to Make a Difference
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Here at Nugget Markets, we’re proud to join Yolo Food Bank in celebrating the Grand Opening and Open House of their new, expanded facility in Woodland! As part of our ongoing support of the food bank, Nugget Markets is contributing $100,000 over three years to the End Hunger Yolo capital campaign which funded the new building.
Here at Nugget Markets, we’re proud to join Yolo Food Bank in celebrating the Grand Opening and Open House of their new, expanded facility in Woodland! As part of our ongoing support of the food bank, Nugget Markets is contributing $100,000 over three years to the End Hunger Yolo capital campaign which funded the new building.
“It’s our honor to support Yolo Food Bank and the vital work they do in our community,” said Kate Stille, Chief Impact Officer at Nugget Markets. “We share the same values of feeding our communities and serving those in need, and this new facility is a great investment in the future of food security in our area. Nugget Markets has been a long-time partner of Yolo Food Bank and we’re happy to be part of their next chapter of growth.”
Yolo Food Bank spent almost 20 years at their previous facility before moving in March of this year. The new food bank is 300% larger with 400% more cool storage space. Currently, Yolo Food Bank collects, stores and distributes roughly 4 million pounds of food per year via direct distribution programs like “Eat Well Yolo” and “Kids Farmers Market,” as well as to 70 local nonprofits, mainly serving working families. With the help of their new facility, the food bank hopes to provide 50% more food this year, for a total of six million pounds distributed!
“Yolo Food Bank is an essential part of the social safety net,” said Joy Cohan, Director of Philanthropic Engagement at Yolo Food Bank. “We’re a hub for food closets, senior meal delivery programs, college campuses and other nonprofits aligned to address food insecurity. Our work honors the investment in and fulfills the promise of what this building was constructed to do, and it makes partnerships like those with Nugget Markets so heartening and important in taking our work forward.”
Our partnership with Yolo Food Bank extends back more than 25 years and has included food drives, volunteer support, food donations and financial contributions to help the food bank’s mission of ending hunger and malnutrition in Yolo County. Some of our associates also helped prepare for the Grand Opening by restocking shelves in the warehouse and making decorative produce baskets for the stage.
We're so grateful for the work Yolo Food Bank does in our community and are honored to support the cause!
