Pinnacle Foods Algona Raises Money to Fight Childhood Hunger

Editor's Note: The following is a press release from Pinnacle Foods, located in Algona.

This bake sale season, Pinnacle Foods Group LLC locations across the country have teamed up with Share Our Strength to help fight childhood hunger. From July through October 2011, Pinnacle Foods challenged each of its locations to volunteer for the company cause by hosting community bake sales to collectively raise $25,000 for Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale campaign. Pinnacle Foods’ Duncan Hines brand is a national presenting sponsor of the Great American Bake Sale. Pinnacle Foods’ Algona location raised $1,004.31 toward the company’s overall goal by hosting bake sales at work and at various local grocery stores.

Since 2003, the national non-profit group, Share Our Strength, has been helping connect millions of hungry children to the nutritious food they need. Pinnacle Foods employees will lend a hand in the fight against childhood hunger by baking their way to raise funds to support Share Our Strength.

“We’re very excited to be supporting Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale as a corporation,” said Jeff Leichleiter, General Manager of Pinnacle Foods-owned Tim’s Cascade Snacks. Pinnacle Foods will keep track of each of their location’s bake sale totals and award a winner at the end of the challenge.  “The Pinnacle Foods Bake Sale Challenge brings employees closer together by volunteering in the community.”