Food access and security
Too many people go without food. Too much food goes to waste.
Too many people go without food. Too much food goes to waste.
General Mills works to make more food accessible to people facing food insecurity through donations, philanthropy, employee volunteerism and investments in systems that connect surplus food with communities.
We combine our resources, partnerships and deep food expertise to improve food access locally and system-wide. We focus on:
We support solutions that make it easier to recover and redistribute surplus food across the world.
MealConnect, created by Feeding America and funded by General Mills, is an innovative food recovery platform that makes it easy for food makers, grocers, restaurants, distributors, school cafeterias and trucking companies to efficiently donate surplus food.
Since 2014, MealConnect has enabled billions of nourishing meals for food insecure people.
Food banks, community organizations and advocacy groups do the daily work of getting food to people. We partner with organizations that bring both scale and expertise, including:
We also engage with local partners like Second Harvest Heartland and The Good Acre to help improve physical and economic access to local food in underserved communities.
These partnerships increase access to food shelves and food bank programs, strengthen access to U.S. federal nutrition programs like school meals and support small food businesses.
Together, our partnerships help reach more communities and strengthen access to food where it’s needed most.
We have a long-standing history of addressing food insecurity and hunger.
Our founder, James Ford Bell, was a key figure in arranging food and flour shipments from the U.S. to people in Belgium and France during World War 1. These efforts ultimately saved an estimated 10 million people and are considered one of the largest humanitarian assistance campaigns in world history.
General Mills is also founding partner of Feeding America, the largest U.S. hunger-relief organization. For more than 40 years, we have contributed more than $43 million to support the Feeding America network, and enabled millions of meals through our food donations.
We are driven by both the responsibility and the opportunity to leverage our scale for good, actively working every day to support our neighbors in need.
