Food Lion Feeds and colleges team up to end hunger
Food Lion Feeds and colleges team up to end hunger
During the 2024-25 college basketball season, Food Lion Feeds teamed up with 51 collegiate basketball programs, including 15 women’s teams, to address food insecurity with its Score to Give More initiative. The effort resulted in more than 1.6 million meals provided to neighbors experiencing hunger.
For every free throw made by players during the regular season and tournaments, Food Lion Feeds helped provide 100 meals (up to 30,000 meals per team). Since the program’s inception in 2019, it has helped provide more than 6.5 million meals to nourish those in need. This innovative program benefits each school’s campus food pantry or affiliated Feeding America partner food bank where each college is located. Food Lion Feeds was founded in 2014 by Food Lion to address food insecurity in the towns and cities it serves.
"The Score to Give More Program is about raising awareness about food insecurity in our communities and engaging college students in the fight against hunger,” said Kevin Durkee, manager, Food Lion Feeds. “It also strengthens our college partnerships and supports our students and student-athletes. We are incredibly proud to collaborate with so many colleges dedicated to making a real difference."
The Score to Give More campaign is one of many efforts Food Lion Feeds leads in partnership with college campuses. In addition to this collegiate effort, Food Lion Feeds also teams up with universities for its Sack to Give Back campaign, providing 1,000 meals (up to 30,000 meals per school) for every quarterback sack made by the participating institution.
