Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation Grants

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation Grants is sponsored by Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation. Supports various community initiatives, including workforce development programs.

Building Strong Communities | Schwan's Company Building Strong Communities We strive to improve the quality of life in communities where our team members live and work. We focus on exceptional efforts to end hunger, promote youth education and leadership development, and provide essential services that advance healthier communities.

Deep within our culture, we have a desire to make a positive impact in the communities where we work and live. One way we do this is by giving back to our communities in the form of financial support, food donations and employee volunteerism. We support our communities in two ways: Schwan’s Corporate Giving Foundation is an endowed private foundation established by the company in 2000 and governed by an independent board of directors.

Direct donations from the company support many great community causes and events associated with ending hunger and developing youth . As a food company, we feel a deep responsibility to help support people in need of nutritious meals.

That's why CJ Schwan's and the Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation partner with Feeding America, the leading non-profit hunger organization in the United States, and its affiliated food banks and food shelves to fight hunger. Our support and that of our company subsidiaries includes: Creating employee volunteer opportunities. Building awareness of Feeding America and its affiliated food banks and agencies among employees and customers.

Giving nearly 1. 9 million pounds of food and ingredients in 2024. Investing in Future Leaders Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation supports scholarship opportunities for the children of Schwan's subsidiary employees with renewable (up to four years) scholarships worth $2,500 per year.

In addition, the Foundation supports the Schwan’s Academic Scholarship at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. In 2015, CJ Schwan's and Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation began their ongoing partnership with the University of Minnesota.

We support: Graduate assistantships and undergraduate scholarships in Carlson School and College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences A Nutrition Center for student athletes Men's and Women's Athletics Commitment to School Nutrition For more than 30 years, we have made an annual donation to the School Nutrition Foundation’s scholarship program.

This scholarship enables the School Nutrition Foundation to foster good nutrition in school lunch programs and enhance school food service management. Scholarships up to $2,500 each are awarded. CJ Schwan's and the Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation support organizations such as the local United Way that have a broad impact on the communities in which subsidiary employees live and work.

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation makes grants in honor of employee campaigns for local United Way organizations in Minnesota and Ohio. CJ Schwan's sponsors DISH - the leading fundraising event for Second Harvest Heartland. We make quarterly donations to Mary's Place in Minneapolis and grants to Bolder Options.

We make regular food donations to Salina Emergency Aid Food Shelf in Salina, Kansas.