Natural Disaster Relief
Cargill’s Natural Disaster Relief Fund allows the company and its employees to respond quickly to natural disasters that strike the communities where we live and work. Following a natural disaster, Cargill partners with the Red Cross to support relief efforts in the affected region. Cargill also matches employee donations to those Red Cross relief efforts.
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Cargill Supports the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina
Last updated: September 22, 2005
Cargill and its business units, employees, and shareholders have contributed more than $1.7 million in immediate and long-term recovery efforts for communities and employees impacted by the hurricane. Funds will be used for help meet short and long-term needs. Following are a few example of how Cargill and its employees are responding to the hurricane:
• At the suggestion of local Cargill facilities, $70,000 was given to the local United Ways in Lafayette, Reserve and Baton Rogue for their immediate assistance to area residents and volunteers.
• Cargill also donated $10,000 to The River Road Youth Center of St. Joseph’s Church in Paulina to help them establish a new shelter for evacuees.
• Cargill provided its long-time partner America’s Second Harvest $100,000 to help arrange food purchases and transportation to stock food shelves and feeding stations from Texas to Alabama.
• In addition to funds to America’s Second Harvest, Sunny Fresh Foods sent five truckloads of egg product to the region through the ASH network.
• Cargill Meat Solutions provided more than 7,500 pounds of beef and turkey to Outback Steakhouse for feeding stations.
• Horizon Milling worked with partner Domino’s to provide flour for pizza for relief volunteers immediately following the disaster.
• Cargill Animal Nutrition worked with Louisiana State University to provide feed for horses, cattle, dogs and cats through their network to animal rescue stations.
• Cargill has pledged $250,000 for long-term rebuilding efforts, which will be used to match BU funds for named projects in the region.
• Cargill partner Living Lands and Waters (Chad Pregracke) is gathering tools and supplies and will travel to Cargill’s facilities in Louisiana to help Cargill employees clean up their homes. LL&W works on the Upper Mississippi with support from Cargill and its local employees.
• Cargill Salt provided $25,000--$50,000 with a Cargill match—to Lafayette Parish School District for Homeless Education Project to help that community work with students who have evacuated from New Orleans.
• Cargill employees around the world are collecting contributions to support the relief efforts. Many business units are matching employee donations as well.
• A Cargill employee from Thailand offered his vacation home in Georgia to a Cargill employee family to use.
• A former Cargill employee in Arizona offered his home near two Cargill locations so that a family that wanted to relocate with Cargill had a place to stay.
• Cargill Salt employees in Breaux Bridge made and served meals at a local shelter.
• Cargill Grain and Oilseed employees in Houston provided volunteer support at the Red Cross shelter at the Houston Astrodome. Volunteers helped do laundry, distribute relief items and helped coordinate other needs.
• Cargill Pork employees in Russellville, Ark. raised funds and supplies for a shelter in Ruston, Louisiana. A Cargill Pork employee personally delivered the supplies as well.
• Cargill Pork employees in Beardstown, Ill. raised $11,000 and collected supplies for hurricane relief efforts.
• Employees across Cargill’s headquarters in Minneapolis provided volunteer resources to local organizations as they prepared to support evacuees coming to Twin Cities.
• Horizon Milling in Port Allen, La., provided $2,500 to a local emergency center to purchase medication for evacuees.
• Nearly 25 percent of Horizon Milling employees in Port Allen participated in a blood drive to re-stock supplies needed in the region.
For More Information
Rebecca Oswald
Community Relations Associate
(952) 742-6207
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