Message from Kelly: Helping fight hunger
Food banks are seeing higher demand and fewer resources, making it harder for communities to get the support they need.
Kelly Goodejohn, Starbucks chief social impact officer, shared the following message with Starbucks partners (employees):
Partners,
Across the country, many families continue to face growing uncertainty around food access. Food banks are seeing higher demand and fewer resources, making it harder for communities to get the support they need.
As we see increasing needs in our communities, I wanted to share the work we do all year round to address hunger and food insecurity:
- $5.5M in Starbucks FoodShare Capacity Grants this year is supporting more than 300 food banks and hunger relief organizations nationwide.
- Of that, $2M is helping move FoodShare donations faster and more efficiently—which will help deliver more than 3M meals from our U.S. coffeehouses in the next three months.
- $2.8M is supplementing those donations with additional food items.
- So far, we’ve donated or enabled 29M meals this year through grants and programs like FoodShare, now in 100% of our U.S. company-operated coffeehouses.
- And thanks to partner nominations, The Starbucks Foundation has awarded nearly 7,000 Neighborhood Grants since 2019—totaling $12.8M—to organizations tackling hunger relief.
To every partner making this possible—thank you. Whether you’re packing unsold food for your daily FoodShare pickup at the end of your shift, or donating or volunteering in your community, your work makes a difference during these critical times.
Let’s keep going. Let’s keep showing up. Because together, we can help support our communities in the fight against hunger.
With gratitude,
Kelly