Industry Corporate Social Responsibility

IFDA Focuses on Industry Corporate Social Responsibility

IFDA's Corporate Social Responsibility Committee works to facilitate and drive industry efforts in the area of CSR, guiding the process and contributing expertise and thought-leadership. Its mission is to promote and advance CSR initiatives in the foodservice distribution industry; its vision is to educate and empower IFDA members and their partners to have a positive social and environmental impact in their communities. While the CSR space encompasses many facets, the committee’s current focus is on food donations/food waste reduction and charitable activities.

Corporate Social Responsibility is generally described as a corporation's initiatives to assess and take responsibility for its effects on environmental and social wellbeing, including, but not limited to, food donation, food waste reduction, environmental sustainability, animal welfare, community improvement and charitable giving.
 

Foodservice Distributor CSR Initiatives

IFDA Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Company Initiatives

          

  

    

Other IFDA Member Company Initiatives

Ben E. Keith Foods              McLane Company, Inc.

US Foods                              Performance Foodservice
 

Just take a look at these headlines!

Sysco Donates 30 Million Meals, ‘Making Every Case Count’ in a Global Effort to Support Vulnerable, Food-Insecure Citizens

US Foods Exceeds $35 Million In Donations For COVID-19 Hunger Relief Efforts

Saval Foodservice Donates Food to Laid Off Restaurant Employees

Dot Foods Teams Up with FEMA to Increase Food Donations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Natural Disasters

Performance Food Group Company Highlights Effort to Address Food Insecurity

Food Donation, Hunger Relief and Food Waste Reduction

Information and Tools

Feeding America guides on partnering, managing the supply chain, and ChoiceSystem.

Printable FoodKeeper guide (PDF courtesy of Feeding America)

FoodKeeper: The FoodKeeper resource helps you understand food and beverages storage to maximize the freshness and quality of items. It was developed by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, with Cornell University and the Food Marketing Institute.


 

Organizations and Networks

Feeding America: This national non-profit organization is a nationwide network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs in nearly every community in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.

Meals on Wheels: This national organization delivers meals to seniors in need.

Share Our Strength and No Kid Hungry: Foodservice-centric national organization that aims to end hunger and poverty.

Center for Food Integrity: Not-for-profit organization providing research and information to foster support for the belief that producing healthy, affordable food using fewer resources through responsible production, processing and distribution is the ethical choice that is right for people, animals and the planet.

Food Waste Reduction Alliance: Operated by the food sector’s leading trade associations, this cross-industry initiative includes more than 30 manufacturing, retailing and foodservice companies, along with expert partners from the anti-hunger community and waste management sector.

ReFed: A multi-stakeholder nonprofit, powered by an influential network of the nation’s leading business, nonprofit, foundation, and government leaders committed to reducing U.S. food waste.