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Joan Daleo on Community

Joan Daleo on Community

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Speaker 1

For profit organizations do make food, especially when you're in the fresh food end of things, we often make donations to nonprofits such as the St Louis Foodbank or Operation Food Search. But we weren't intrinsically involved in those organizations. One of the things about the USDA and the unique program they put together is we have formed many, many community connections through not only the food bank organizations, but through Urban League, through urban strategies, through better family life.

00:01:00:20 - 00:01:25:07

Speaker 1

All of these different organizations, now that we're touching, is giving us an incredible amount of window to the community, the needs of the community, and how prevalent food scarcity is in our country and in our community.

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Speaker 1

It's a really sense of great pride for us to produce these boxes and distribute them to the most needful in our communities.

00:01:45:26 - 00:02:06:18

Speaker 1

For the company, the thing that's come out of it is a much higher purpose. For everything that we've done.