Giving Bizz - Food News

GIVING BIZZ – FOOD NEWS

Sanitarium

Sanitarium continues to support The Good Start Breakfast Club program founded by the Australia Red Cross eight years ago by supplying breakfast cereal and soymilk. With the help of 2000 dedicated volunteers, the program currently serves more than 900,000 breakfasts each year in 250 schools in areas of most need. Last year, Sanitarium staff gave more than 1580 hours of their time donating blood, knitting clothes and blankets for children in Mongolia, serving Meals on Wheels, volunteering at the Southlakes Women’s Refuge and collecting used glasses for the Christian Blind Mission International.

Dick Smith Foods

Dick Smith, the Australian entrepreneur responsible for OzeChoc and Bush Foods Breakfasts is committed to saving the world from population growth. He has donated the $1 million dollar prize money for his newly launched Wilberforce Award. Dick Smith is challenging people around the world under the age of 30 to think up the best solution to “society’s capitalist-driven addiction to consumption growth.” The winner will be announced in 12 months time.

Cadbury

Cadbury has committed to investing 1% of profits back into the community this year. By donating money and product, skill sharing and employee volunteering, Cadbury will be supporting its community partners, which include Clown Doctors, Learning Links and Conservation Volunteers.

Cadbury, which earlier this year was purchased by US food giant Kraft, has also released its first Fair Trade chocolate bar and launched “Project 50 Years”, a concept that aims to involve Indigenous Australians in its core business activities by setting up Fair Trade cocoa plantations in remote communities.

SunRice

Australian owned SunRice sponsors the SunRice Family Centre at the Ute Muster held in Deniliquin in Southern New South Wales each September. It is also a partner of Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, and sponsors the bi-annual Leeton SunRice Festival, which raises awareness of the industry and its impact on the community. SunRice is also an active donor of rice food products to Foodbank Australia.