RICHMOND, Va. -- In partnership with the BP "Fueling Communities" program, Mid-Atlantic Convenience Stores (MACS) has presented a check of $10,000 to FeedMore's Central Virginia Food Bank.
The grant will help the Food Bank distribute 50,000 meals to the one-in-seven Central Virginians who live in food-insecure households. Fueling Communities, a philanthropic program BP created to help local BP business owners care for their communities, worked with MACS to make the local grant possible.
In addition to the grant, MACS has an ongoing commitment to address the issue of hunger in the Mid-Atlantic region, where the company operates. Throughout the past holiday season, associates at MACS' Business Support Center collected more than 1,000 pounds of food for the Central Virginia Food Bank.
"As a company, our work with FeedMore's Central Virginia Food Bank has made us more aware of the thousands of hungry individuals and families in our city, and it has made us determined to do our part to care for our neighbors," said Dan Pastor, CEO of MACS. "Partnering with BP's 'Fueling Communities' has allowed us to offer even more support to this organization and to impact this important cause that we believe in so strongly."
Gayle Hunter Haglund, FeedMore's chief philanthropy officer, said, "All of us at FeedMore are tremendously grateful for Mid-Atlantic Convenience Stores' support. Sadly, the need for hunger-relief continues to escalate as many of our neighbors cope with the effects of a struggling economy. As we pull together to find solutions and help one another, we contribute to a stronger region and invest in a promising future."
[Pictured (left to right): Neil McCarthy, senior vice president and CIO of MACS; Fay Lohr, president/CEO of FeedMore and Central Virginia Food Bank; Lynn Lambrecht, senior vice president of human resources of MACS.]
FeedMore, the umbrella organization for the Central Virginia Food Bank and Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia, is the core hunger relief agency in Central Virginia. Under the FeedMore umbrella, Meals on Wheels and the Food Bank retain their identities and programs, together fulfilling a lifesaving mission to work together to efficiently and effectively fight hunger to enhance lives in our community.
The Central Virginia Food Bank, a FeedMore organization, fights hunger in our region by providing food and grocery products to an extensive network of partner agencies who serve the most vulnerable neighbors. The Food Bank also delivers food items directly to neighborhoods of high need; prepares and delivers hot, healthy meals to at-risk children in summer/afterschool programs; and provides BackPacks filled with weekend meal items to school children in need. These programs feed thousands of people in 31 counties and 5 cities in Central Virginia.
Based in Richmond, Va., MACS is a leading c-store operator in Maryland and Virginia. With a network of approximately 300 company-owned and dealer locations, in addition to its wholesale fuel distribution network, MACS is one of the largest convenience store networks and fuel distributors in the region.
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