How might food banks and their networks reduce their environmental footprint while increasing service delivery to serve food insecure communities?
Food banking plays a critical role in strengthening food systems at the community level, especially where food loss is high and social protections are weak. This September, your company will have the opportunity to support key players in the fight for food security by partnering with PIMCO and The Global FoodBanking Network in a multi-company Reimagine Series Challenge.
In the Challenge, cross-corporate teams of employees will come together to contribute in a powerful way to the “greening” of food banks—to drive innovation by offering strategies to assess their current environmental impact and identify energy efficient solutions that support operational efficiency, create new delivery modalities, and integrate new technologies.
Anchor Partner
The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN)
GFN is an international nonprofit with a mission to nourish the world’s hungry through sustaining, uniting, and strengthening food banks in over 40 countries. GFN offers expertise, resources, and connections that give food banks what they need to become leaders in their community for a hunger-free future.
Benefits
ALIGNMENT WITH BUSINESS STRATEGY
Employees gain insight into supply chain challenges and how it might benefit your business
Demonstrated commitment to ESG and sustainability goals
Positive brand reputation
PURPOSE-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP
Increased sense of purpose
Greater productivity and morale
Learning, innovation, and virtual leadership
ADVANCEMENT OF COMMUNITY INTERESTS
Improved access to foodbank services with reduced carbon footprint
Improved lives and livelihoods
Effective collaboration between local governments, civil society, and business
“At PIMCO, one issue that has long driven our purpose is the global goal of zero hunger. We know that by reducing hunger we have the opportunity to create positive social and economic change. We understand it takes collective contribution to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. Through this initiative, and alongside like-minded partners, we are hoping to engage the best and brightest at PIMCO and beyond to help GFN build its capacity, expand its services and ultimately get food into the hands of those most vulnerable.”
— NATE BROWN
Senior Vice President, Director PIMCO Foundation
“Partnering to support GFN will benefit millions of people around the globe facing hunger, while also lessening the world’s carbon footprint. Food banks play a vital role in addressing hunger, food insecurity, and nutrition in communities around the world. They take a local approach by recovering and redirecting wholesome edible surplus food. By mitigating and repurposing food waste, food banks also reduce the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions that would have been emitted from landfills. GFN is at the helm, enabling 800+ member food banks around the world to become more efficient, more effective and is best positioned to have impact at scale.”
— AMBER SKALSKY
Vice President, Purpose at PIMCO
Challenge Timeline
INITIATE PROJECT
Scoping workshops with partners
Corporate engagement
BUILD A VIRTUAL TEAM
Employee selection
Team-building
COACH AND PREPARE
Project kick-off
Pre-Challenge workshops
ONE-MONTH ENGAGEMENT
Teams collaborate with Partners
Teams develop solutions
