Now in its 12th year, the annual marketing campaign of the causes has helped feed the America® partner banks to obtain more than 2 billion meals * for people faced with hunger in local communities.
CHICAGO,, February 28, 2025 / Prnewswire / – For the 12th consecutive year, all the locations of us Walmart and Sam’s Club team with their customers, members, suppliers and associates for combat hunger. Change of sparks. Campaign to support the Feeding America network of partner food banks.
Feed the American logo. (Prnewsfoto / Feeding America) (Prnewsfoto / Feeding America)
The annual donation campaign, the race March 1-31Launches a celebration of 20 years of partnership between Walmart, Sam’s Club and Feeding America which has become one of the most transformative collaborations in the Hunger Rescue Space – with approximately $ 271 million in donations – including more than $ 177 million of the company and the Walmart Foundation and almost $ 95 million customers and members. Walmart and Sam’s Club have also donated more than 9 billion books of food to the Feeding America network of local food banks and partner agencies since 2006.
“Our extraordinary partnership is based on a shared conviction that the end of hunger in America is possible,” said Claire Babineaux-FontenotFeed the CEO of America. “For two decades, Walmart and Sam’s Club brought daring and impactful ideas to the table and have executed them in a consistent manner and with a goal. We are grateful for everything they have done and everything that is to come.”
Combat hunger. Change of sparks. The campaign will take place online and in stores March 1, March 31. Buyers have three easy ways to support people faced with hunger:
For each participating product purchased in store or online on Walmart.com or Samsclub.com, the supplier will donate the monetary equivalent of at least one meal * ($ 0.10) On behalf of a Feding Food Bank America Partner in Walmart and five meals * ($ 0.50) At Sam’s Club, up to the applicable limits. See the packages specially marked for more details.
Donate to the checkout in stores or clubs or online on Walmart.com and the Walmart application.
Give a donation to Feeding America’s Fight Hunger. Change of sparks. Campaign site on www.feedingamerica.org/walmart or www.feedingamerica.org/samsclub.
During the campaign, all donations remain local. Donations of suppliers activated by sales and register donations are directed to a food for feeding America America food in a store or club community. Since its creation in 2014, the campaign has contributed to obtaining nearly 2 billion meals * for people faced with hunger.
“In the past 20 years, Feeding America, Walmart and Sam’s Club have collaborated to help people live better in the communities we serve. Together, we have supported the capacity of the charitable meal system to recover more food donations from retailers and use technological solutions that help banks and food agencies to serve more people,” said Julie GehrkiPresident of the Walmart Foundation and main vice-president of Walmart. “The change in the fight against hunger for hunger. The campaign is another way for the support of the fight against hunger by hiring our suppliers, customers and members to join us to give local food banks across the United States”
Walmart and Feeding America’s Partnership began as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when the Walmart Foundation made a $ 1 million gift for help in the event of a disaster.
In addition to more support for help in the event of a disaster – including major gifts in the wake of hurricane Helene and Milton in 2024 – multi -year investment in the Walmart and Walmart Foundation helped finance America’s efforts to maximize the supply and sharing of food, as well as to extend its ability to buy and distribute food more which experience food insecurity.
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have funded totalizing retail agency capacity subsidies $ 15.75 million – including a $ 9.75 million Donation in 2024 – which reached more than 20 food banks and hundreds of partner agencies across the country. The subsidies expand detailed donation programs and help finance staff, equipment and transport solutions that result in an increase in quantities of food distributed to partner agencies, including pantry and meal programs.
These subsidies have helped to equip programs like The Rolling Store Food Pantry, an agency partner of the Heart of Alabama Food Bank which has been operated for years on a school bus in and around Montgomery, Alabama. With a recent grant, program leader Jeremy Lynch I boug
ht a refrigerated freezing trailer, allowing the group to securely transport more perishable food to distribution events in several rural counties.
“This has changed the situation for sure,” said Lynch, noting that the new trailer system helped distribute food at around 8,500 families in 2024. Beyond the increased frequency of vans and food books, the convenience of the new trailer offers Lynch and its voluntary colleagues more capacity and more time to help their communities by setting up a sustainable program. “These subsidies have a large impact of a large range and that is something on which you cannot really put a number,” he said.
The 24 suppliers participating for this year’s combat hunger. Spark Change Campaign To Walmart Include: B & G Foods, Inc., Ben’s Original’s, Bush Brothers & Company, Celsius, The Coca-Cola Company, Conagra Foods, Dole Packged Foods, LLC, Ferrero USAGeneral Mills, Hershey Salty Snacks, Hidden Valley Original Ranch, Kellanova, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Kodiak, Kraft Heinz, Lipton teaMaterne, Mondelez International, Olipop, Pepsi-Cola Advertising & Marketing, Inc.,, The Hain Celestial Group, WK Kellogg Co, Unilever and Utz Quality Foods.
The six participating suppliers of the Sam’s Club include: General Mills, Kellanova, Kodiak, Kraft Heinz, Nestlé and Unilever.
To find out more about the campaign, visit https://www.feedongamerica.org/campaigns/fight-hunger-cark-change.
*Currently, $ 1 Helps to provide at least 10 meals guaranteed by nourishing America® on behalf of local partner food banks.
Contact with the media Emily James Nourish America
About nourishing America Feeding America is attached to an America where no one is hungry. We support tens of millions of people who experience food insecurity to obtain the food and the resources they say they need to prosper within the framework of a national food banks, food associations on a state level, pantry and meal programs. We also invest in innovative solutions to increase equitable access to nutritious foods, defend legislation that improves food security and work to treat factors that have an impact on food security, such as health, cost of living and employment. We associate ourselves with people who know food insecurity, decision -makers, organizations and supporters, united to them in a movement to end hunger. Visit Feedingamrica.org to find out more.
About Walmart Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is an omnichannel retailer led by people and fed by people helping people save money and live better – at any time and anywhere – in stores, online and via their mobile devices. Each week, around 270 million customers and members visit more than 10,750 stores and many electronic commerce sites in 19 countries. With the financial year 2025 returned from $ 681 billionWalmart employs around 2.1 million partners worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, philanthropy of businesses and employment opportunities. Additional information on Walmart can be found by visiting Corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook on Facebook.com/walmart, on X (formerly known as Twitter) in Twitter.com/walmartand on LinkedIn in Linkedin.com/company/walmart.
About the Sam club Sam’s Club, the $ 90 billion The Walmart Inc. division (NYSE: WMT) is a membership club that pioneers the future of retail sales experience, providing exclusive access to value, convenience and modern omnichannel purchase options to millions of members in 600 clubs across the United States and Puerto Rico. With more than 40 years of innovation in the category, the Sam’s Club continues to redefine the club membership purchases with its organized quality food assortment and the Mark® items of members, in addition to market leader technologies and services such as Scan & Go ™, edge of the edge and home delivery. Visit the Sam’s Club press room, shop on Samsclub.com or log with Sam’s Club on LinkedIn, XFacebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Pinterest.
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