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Pilgrim's Pride's employees – our "Partners" -- are proud to be active members of our communities, and they recognize the importance of giving back. Each year, they give countless hours of their time to organizations, causes and projects that improve the quality of life where they live and work.
Pilgrim’s Pride sponsors Company and Community Pride (CCP) Teams at most of our U.S. locations, comprised of employee volunteers who are committed to making a difference, and has also donated approximately $3.6 million to support hunger relief, charitable causes and local non-profit organizations in the areas where our facilities are located.
Partners Nationwide Support the American Cancer Society
In what has become a longstanding tradition, Pilgrim’s Pride Partners step forward each year to raise money for cancer research and honor the survivors and victims of cancer by participating in American Cancer Society Relay for Life events in our communities.
For months preceding the events, Partners are busy raising funds through chicken sales, bake sales, auctions, dunking booths and all sorts of fun activities, and their efforts have paid off. This year, 10 sites reported contributions totaling more than $78,000.
After all this work, Partners from Texas to Virginia walk all through the night at Relay events to honor their fellow Partners, friends and family members who have been affected by cancer.
The Russellville, Ala., team gathers for a group photo.
Once darkness falls at Relay for Life events, Partners participate in a Ceremony of Hope by lighting candles to honor cancer survivors and remember loved ones lost to cancer.
Margaret Hill, Rebecca Phelps and Deborah Cole were part of the Farmerville, La., team that raised money through auctions, bake sales, and selling rides on a giant blow-up slide.
The Broadway, Va., Relay for Life team poses for a photo in front of the office.
Partners from our To-Ricos complex in Aibonito,
Puerto Rico, participated in their third consecutive Relay for Life event this
year. More than 450 Pilgrim’s Pride Partners and family members participated
joined together to raise more than $1,500 to support the American Cancer Society.
Partners Show Creativity, Community Spirit
Despite the current economic conditions facing our company and our industry , Pilgrim's Pride Partners are still finding ways to positively affect their communities. Here are a few examples of creative projects our Partners have been involved in over the last several months.
The Gainesville, Ga., Company and Community Pride (CCP) Team held a its Rooster Classic Golf Tournament, which raised $4,895 for the American Heart Association of Hall County.
Partners with the CCP Team in Marshville, N.C., went to a local nursing home last March and delivered Easter bags to 120 residents.
Partners at the Broadway, Va., office donated food, towels and other supplies to the Rockingham County/Harrisonburg Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Pictured above are several Partners and family members involved in the project, along with two dogs from the center.
A softball tournament, held in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, raised nearly $4,000 for the Angel Tree Program, which provides clothing and toys for needy children. The Topp Dawgs, consisting of Partners from various East Texas locations including the Mt. Pleasant and Dallas plants, won for the second year in a row.
Cancer Center Already Having an Impact
The Patty and Bo Pilgrim Cancer Center, located in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, has only been open since April, and it’s already exceeding expectations.
"We are already at the level now that we thought we'd be at in December," said Duane Shafer, chief financial officer for Titus Regional Medical Center (TRMC). As of late July, the cancer center was treating an average of 34 chemotherapy and 24 radiation therapy patients a week.
Community support has also been tremendous. In 2006, the Pilgrim family and Pilgrim’s Pride each donated $1 million towards the center. Individuals and organizations throughout the community pitched in to cover the rest of the costs, an additional $1.9 million.
Source: Mt. Pleasant Daily Tribune
Pilgrim’s Pride and NTCC Honored for Adult Education Partnership
Sue Barker (left), director of the Northeast Texas Community College (NTCC) Adult Education department, and Donna Kuykendall (right), Pilgrim's Pride's manager of Partner development, recently accepted certificates of recognition at the Texas LEARNS Adult Education Workplace Literacy conference in Houston. NTCC and Pilgrim's Pride were honored for their lasting contribution to creating and maintaining employer collaboration with adult education. Each year, the two organizations work together to provide Pilgrim’s Pride Partners with General Educational Development (GED) and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. This partnership has helped to further the education of hundreds of workers in northeast Texas.
Celebrating Safety Milestones
Partners at the Pilgrim’s Pride plant in Canton, Ga., recently achieved 5 million work hours without a lost time accident. To celebrate this achievement, managers hosted a barbecue chicken lunch for approximately 825 Canton Partners.
At the Pilgrim’s Pride hatchery in Moulton, Ala., Partners celebrated 13 years without a lost time accident. The Moulton hatchery supplies chicks for the company's Athens, Ala., complex.
The Ranburne, Ala., hatchery, which is part of our Carrollton, Ga., complex, recently held a cookout to celebrate achieving six years without a lost-workday case.
Early Easter Gift for East Texas Food Bank
This past Easter, Pilgrim's Pride donated nearly 80,000 eggs to the East Texas Food Bank to help feed hungry families in a 26-county area. This donation was part of a larger donation of 12 million eggs by America’s egg farmers to America’s Second Harvest, the largest network of food banks in America.
Golf Tournament Raises More Than $50,000
The Guntersville, Ala., plant sponsored 13 children this past December through the Christmas Coalition of Marshall County, collecting and distributing toys for area children.
Guntersville Partners Give Toys for Christmas
The Guntersville, Ala., plant sponsored 13 children this past December through the Christmas Coalition of Marshall County, collecting and distributing toys for area children.
Sumter’s Adopt-A-Family Program Grows Annually
 Each year, the Sumter, S.C., complex participates in the Adopt-A-Family program, a tradition that began in 2004 when Sumter Partners purchased gifts for 24 needy families in the area. The program has grown each year, serving a total of 60 families and 120 kids this year.
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