ShopRite Partners In Caring, a regional hunger-fighting initiative is partnering with General Mills to raise awareness about the issue of hunger and Jersey Bites is here to help “Blog it Forward.” General Mills and ShopRite will donate one box of cereal to a food bank in ShopRite’s trading area for the first 30 people who comment on this post. And that is not the only way you can help.
Today, the ShopRite Partners In Caring program supports 23 regional food banks and more than 1,400 charitable agencies with food or meal components. With a $2 million annual donation, more than $20 million has been donated since 1999 in the fight against hunger.
How It Works
Companies that have joined ShopRite in the fight against hunger are marked in stores with the ShopRite Partners In Caring shelf label. By choosing these products, ShopRite customers support manufacturers who contribute to the program.
Each of the 217 ShopRite stores in the six states that ShopRite serves (New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland) selects qualified local organizations to benefit from the program. These local food charities use their designated funds to acquire supplies at a food bank.
The ShopRite organization recognized the pervasive problem of hunger experienced by so many people right in the neighborhoods served by their stores. It’s a problem that not only exists during the holiday season, when attention is focused on charitable giving, but it also exists throughout the year. ShopRite had already been helping to fight the problem of hunger for more than 20 years through its support of the Feeding America network (formerly America’s Second Harvest) and through participation in the Checkout Hunger program, but wanted to do more.
Who Is Served
More than 36 million Americans go to bed hungry every night – 12 million of them are children. They could be your neighbors, people you know in the community or maybe somebody you said “hello” to this morning. ShopRite is committed to making a difference in the lives of its neighbors. That’s why ShopRite Partners In Caring dollars ultimately service a variety of organizations with feeding capabilities including emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, child care centers, battered women’s shelters, senior programs, drug rehab centers, programs for the mentally and physically disabled, after school programs and other organizations that support those in need in ShopRite communities.
Cheerios (General Mills)
Every time a customer purchases products with the ShopRite Partners In Caring shelf tag, they support the brands that support the fight against hunger. At ShopRite, customers are not just filling a grocery bag; they are helping to fill empty bowls for thousands of hungry families in your community.
So please leave a comment here to help supply your local Food Pantries with boxes of cereal and look for the Partners in Caring shelf tags on your next trip to Shoprite.
What a wonderful program!
Hi, JerseyBites!
I’ve been a long time reader (and contest enter-er) of your blog. Just wanted to let you know I’m helping launch a new hyperlocal for Freehold, and I’m trying to reach out to the NJ blogging community. Would it be alright if I referenced or linked to your blog in the future?
Also, it’s an open-source blog, so we’re looking for posters from the community to really make it a collaborative, community project. If you ever want to contribute, we’d be happy to have you!
Thanks!
Colleen
Way to “blog it forward” my friend — will be happy to help, any way I can. Good on you, ShopRite and all your Partners in Caring!
Awesome program! Doing my small part in helping:)
GREAT PROGRAM!!!! YAYAY!!!
Thanks for letting us know!! I am so glad to do Anything for a GREAT cause!!!!
Leslie
Great idea.
Great program! Glad to do my (very) small part!
Great program!!! Everyone should do their part to help out
What a great way to help out right in your own community.
Great job to everyone involved.
I love the “Bolg it Forward” comment. My feelings as well. I am very happy to participate.
what a great thing to do
I regularly shop at the Shop-Rite store in Wall (Manasquan). In fact, my daughter works there. I will be happy to support this program and will be looking for the special shelf tags! Thanks for spreading the word!
Way to go Shop Rite and General Mills… this is a great program and I appreciate the opportunity to help and ‘blog it forward!!’
So happy to help in this very small way, great program.
What a great use of your blogging power. Thanks for bringing my attention to the “partners in caring” shelf tag. I shop at Shoprite exclusively–good to know!
Always happy to help in your efforts in blogging out hunger, Deb!
Think that I will be passing on my trip to Wegmans and stopping by ShopRite instead. I’m amazed at how many projects their program helps to fund.
Thanks so much for participating in this program Deb!
Great use of blogging! So many people are not aware that there are folks going hungry right on their doorstep!
I too normally shop at Wegmans, but I will patronize ShopRite to support this worthy cause.
Even on vacation, I can support an effort like this one!
Like the idea of Blog It Forward. Hope you reach your goal for this worthwhile project. Thank you.
Always happy to help out the food pantries. Saw your post on Twitter.
FunniBonz is always looking for ways to help! Best of luck in getting cereal for people that need it!
Great program! I’ll retweet it, too!
Happy to help. Great cause!!
I really love to see emerging partnerships between bloggers and companies that actually DO something to benefit people in need! Kudos, Deb, for continuing your fight against hunger, and also to General Mills and ShopRite.
Great cause. So glad we both could be involved!
Great cause! I am doing my post next.
Got your tweet request for meeting the quota – what a great program this is!!! Appreciate your efforts, great job.
Wonderful program, kudos to you and all who are involved!
So great to see so many bloggers and food lovers comment to ensure that we can get the maximum number of boxes of cereal donated!!! What a great community we have here!
If I can ever gt this ReCaptcha right (and nobody does ahead of me), I will be proud to be number 30 and help you reach this goal.
JerseyBites you are so awesome with your charitable giving! Thanks for making a donation to the local foodbank!
30 boxes!
Great program!!
What a GREAT idea! Keep them goin!!!