Harvest Regional Food Bank receives $40,000 Grant from Tyson Foods, Inc.
/On March 19, Tyson Foods, Inc. presented Harvest Regional Food Bank with a check for $40,000 in support of its Mobile Pantry programs in Howard, Pike, and Hempstead Counties in Southwest Arkansas, and to expand on-site facility pantries for Tyson employees.
Harvest established the Mobile Pantry program in 2011 to provide food directly to those communities with the fewest hunger relief options. The food bank began quarterly distributions in two counties and now serves five rural counties multiple times throughout the year. Large-scale mobile pantries were also implemented for the first time in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis in its two most populated counties.
This year’s grant will also be used to add an additional on-site pantry at Tyson’s Hope facility; the first pantry is at Tyson’s Nashville complex. Since 2000, Tyson has donated over $140,000 and 750,000 pounds of food to Harvest Regional Food Bank.
