United Fresh Leadership Program’s Class 20 Donates 28 Salad Bars To Schools

Over the past year, the twelve members of United Fresh Produce Industry Leadership Program’s Class 20 raised funds to support the donation of 28 salad bars for schools. The group’s donations will benefit nearly 15,000 children in 10 states across the country, including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Texas.

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The donations will assist schools with meeting the new school lunch nutrition standards, while empowering students to choose their own fruits and vegetables from a variety of choices on the salad bar each day.

“The members of Class 20 share a passion for increasing children’s produce consumption and doing what we can to ensure the next generation grows up with easy access to fresh, healthy food,” said class member Hilary Martin Long, director of business development for Frey Farms. “Supporting the United Fresh Start Foundation and its work with salad bars for schools just seemed like a natural fit.”

Long added, “Throughout the past year on our ‘leadership journey’ we’ve been able to interact with so many industry leaders who have shared their time, knowledge, and expertise with us. It’s been incredible and demonstrated to us the importance of giving back. That’s why Class 20 organized our respective companies, friends, and industry colleagues to support Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools.”

The Class 20 fellows organized this class project to give back to the industry and their respective communities.

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The members of Leadership Class 20 recently graduated at the 2015 United Fresh convention in Chicago. This also marked the 20th year of the Produce Industry Leadership Program, which has been made possible through the support of program sponsor DuPont Crop Protection since 1995. In addition to the graduation of Leadership Class 20, the new members of Leadership Class 21 were also announced.

To read the full release including the list of school districts, sponsors, and graduating members of Class 20, click here.

For more information about the United Fresh Produce Industry Leadership Program go to www.unitedfredh.org.

Source: United Fresh press release

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