Ford Motor Company Celebrates Holiday Season with Hunger Relief, America’s Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit
25 Novembre 2014 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
- Ford Motor Company delivers new truck
to The Salvation Army’s Bed & Bread Club, helping distribute
5,000 meals each day in Detroit
- Ford is working with Detroit Area
Agency on Aging to help provide meals for 6,000 homebound senior
citizens, part of $1.3 million in hunger relief support across the
U.S.
- 2015 Ford Mustang will lead America’s
Thanksgiving Parade, one of more than 50 Ford vehicles playing a
role in the annual Detroit event
As part of Ford Motor Company’s expanded hunger relief efforts
this year, the company announced the donation of a new truck to The
Salvation Army’s Bed & Bread Club that will help serve 5,000
meals a day to needy people in Detroit.
The vehicle, which goes into operation this week, joins the Bed
& Bread fleet that provides a sandwich, fruit, beverage, soup
and snack to city neighborhoods. The Detroit Bed & Bread
program is the largest one in the country. Marathon Petroleum
Corporation will provide a year of free gasoline for the new
vehicle.
“We’re proud to help the Salvation Army’s Bed and Bread Club
travel to those in need, because hunger never takes a holiday,”
said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community
Services. “By addressing the issue of hunger through other programs
such as Ford Mobile Food Pantries, Ford Focus on Child Hunger and
Meet Up and Eat Up, we are going further to create stronger
communities.”
The new truck, an E-350, is part of a combined investment of
$1.3 million across the U.S. in grants, vehicles and other
assistance toward hunger relief from Ford and Ford Motor Company
Fund, the automaker’s philanthropic arm. The support is helping
tackle hunger and homelessness in communities, providing millions
of meals for people across the U.S. Among the activities:
- Ford is working with the Detroit Area
Agency on Aging to help provide meals to more than 6,000 homebound
seniors. This is the seventh year Ford has donated $40,000 to
support the Holiday Meals on Wheels Thanksgiving program, as well
as provide additional funding for the daily meal service.
- Ford is collaborating with The Parade
Company and Gleaners Community Food Bank to fight hunger by
collecting donations for holiday meals from people texting EAT to
85944.
- Ford has teamed up with Quick Lane Tire
& Auto Center and Feeding America® for a national
text-to-donate campaign in conjunction with the Quick Lane Bowl on
Dec. 26 at Ford Field in Detroit. You can text MEAL to 50555 to
make a $10 donation.
Meantime, Ford is helping southeast Michigan celebrate the
holiday season with support of America’s Thanksgiving Parade, now
in its 88th year. The all-new 2015 Ford Mustang will lead the
parade in Detroit, one of more than 50 Ford vehicles playing a role
in the event, along with the Ford float.
About Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services works with
community partners to advance driving safety, education and
community life. The Ford Motor Company Fund has operated for more
than 60 years with ongoing funding from Ford Motor Company. Ford
Driving Skills for Life teaches new drivers through a variety of
hands-on and interactive methods. Innovation in education is
encouraged through programs that enhance high school learning and
provide college scholarships and university grants. Through the
Ford Volunteer Corps, more than 25,000 Ford employees and retirees
each year work on projects that better their communities in 30
countries. For more information, visit
http://community.ford.com.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in
Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six
continents. With about 186,000 employees and 65 plants worldwide,
the company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The
company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit
Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products
worldwide, please visit http://corporate.ford.com
About The Salvation Army Bed & Bread Club
The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit’s Bed & Bread program,
serves more than 5,000 meals each day, more than 1.8 million meals
every year, to men, women and children who would otherwise go
without. The program also provides nearly 600 homeless individuals
with shelter each night, 212,000 nights annually. Bed & Bread
trucks are unique to The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit, leaving
from The Army’s Acres of Hope campus in Detroit 365 days a year to
serve meals within neighborhoods at designated stops throughout the
day. Case managers aboard the Bed & Bread trucks also assist
clients by helping them receive critical social services through
The Salvation Army’s housing and rehabilitation treatment
programs.
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Ford Motor Company FundTodd
Nissen313.322.4898tnissen@ford.com
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