Perdue Foundation grants $124,000 to expand hunger relief in Maryland, Delaware
Perdue Foundation put $124,000 into four Maryland and Delaware hunger-relief partners, backing mobile food delivery, school access, summer meals, and family support.
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation awarded $124,000 in grants to four nonprofit partners in Maryland and Delaware to expand hunger relief. The funding was announced June 24 and was tied to Perdue Farms’ Fill the Food Gap initiative, part of the company’s Delivering Hope To Our Neighbors outreach.
The grant map matters because it shows how corporate hunger-relief money tends to cluster around a company’s own regional footprint. Perdue said the awards were meant to strengthen food security through programs that do more than stock shelves, including mobile food distribution, school-based food access initiatives, summer meal programs and family support services.
For A Simple Gesture, that mix is familiar. Doorstep food recovery depends on the same kind of operating capacity these grants are designed to protect: vehicles to move donations, fuel to keep routes running, cold storage, volunteer coordination, software to track pickups and partnerships with pantries that can absorb food quickly and reliably. A grant that supports the system, rather than only the food itself, can keep those pieces connected when demand rises and volunteer schedules get harder to manage.
The timing also lines up with a pressure point that food-recovery groups know well. Summer is when school meals disappear and family need often grows, which is why Perdue’s support for summer meal programs stands out as more than a generic donation. It points to funders that are looking for organizations already built to move food through specific channels, whether that means a school network, a neighborhood pantry, or a mobile route that reaches households directly.
Perdue framed the grants as part of a broader effort to improve quality of life and build strong communities in the places where its workers and customers live. For nonprofit leaders and chapter staff at A Simple Gesture, that is the kind of corporate language that can translate into a practical ask: not just a sponsorship for a pantry shelf, but an investment in the infrastructure that keeps food recovery working week after week across a defined region.
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