2009-10-27 14:01:21 - C&S employees banded together across the country for the 7th consecutive year on Make a Difference Day, Saturday October 24, 2009. Make A Difference Day brings millions of Americans together each October to volunteer in their communities.

Reaching out to local communities, the C&S Make a Difference Day initiative inspired more than 500 employees to roll up their sleeves and volunteer in teams for community-based organizations. “Make A Difference Day is a wonderful demonstration of our employees taking action on behalf of our communities,” said Gina Goff, C&S Director of Community Involvement. “It is a great example

of neighbors helping neighbors.”

Most of this year’s C&S Make A Difference Day projects were in alignment with the company’s social focus of addressing the issue of hunger, and included:


Buffalo, NY
Serving dinner at the Friends of Night People soup kitchen

Keene, NH
Painting the office and dining room at The Community Kitchen

Waianae, HI
Constructing a lanai, assembling care packages and serving lunch at the Waianae Homeless Shelter

Birmingham, AL
Serving lunch at the Shepura Men’s Homeless Center and sprucing up at the Ronald McDonald House

Sacramento, CA
Volunteering at the Sacramento Food Bank’s mobile food pantry

Manteca, CA
Painting, installing carpet and cubicle dividers, replacing lighting and ceiling tiles at the Second Harvest Food Bank of San Joaquin County

Wilkes-Barre, PA
Packing food boxes for local senior citizens at the Weinberg Food Bank

Hatfield, MA
Sorting and preparing holiday cards at the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts to launch their holiday season

Greenville, SC
Sorting and packing food at the Harvest Hope Food Bank

Springfield, MA
Fall sprucing up and general maintenance to Loaves & Fishes food pantry

Suffield, CT
Beautifying and green clean up around Harvey Street

Elkton, MD
Painting and sprucing up at Cecil County Help Center

Brattleboro, VT
Building and painting a wooden storage shed for the Vermont Food Bank

Annapolis, MD
Painting two transitional housing apartments for the Lighthouse Homeless Prevention & Support Shelter

Bethlehem, PA
Painting at the Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations of the Lehigh Valley’s Senior Citizen’s Center

Fresno, CA
Distributing food at the Fresno Food Bank

Westfield, MA
Sprucing up at the Cancer House of Hope and serving food to veterans at the Soldier’s Home

About C&S Wholesale Grocers

C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. is a privately owned company with annual sales of more than $18 billion. The company is the 12th largest privately held company in the nation, as ranked by Forbes magazine. Founded in 1918, C&S provides distribution services to grocery chains and independent stores, delivering to approximately 4,600 locations from its distribution centers in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Alabama, California and Hawaii.

C&S community involvement programs support initiatives to stop hunger and to promote the health and enrichment of communities that are homes to the company's employees and facilities. To learn more: community.cswg.com.