Hunger Relief

A Giant Commitment to Fighting Hunger

For over 25 years, Giant has been one of the largest corporate supporters of our local food banks, helping feed hungry families in our area.

Over the past 20 years, we've sponsored the Giant Good Neighbor Food and Funds Drive, which offers our customers the opportunity to make non-perishable food and monetary donations to their local food bank at Giant. This year's program runs October 31-December 31, 2008. Our goal is to raise $300,000 and to collect 150,000 pounds of food for area food banks.

Checkout Hunger (Runs from August 1 thru August 31)

For the past 16 year Giant Public Affairs has administered the popular Checkout Hunger program to benefit area food banks over the summer months. Customers make monetary donations at our stores by tearing off vouchers ($1, $3 and $5 denominations) at each checkout register. Last year over $200,000 was collected for area food banks.

Stuff-A-Bus (November 22) and Stuff-A-Truck (December 12) Promotions

Giant has brought together several media partners to collect food for the two primary food banks (Capital Area and Maryland Food Banks) in our market through these two promotions. In the Baltimore market, we partner with Mix 106.5 radio, The Baltimore Sun and the Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) on the Stuff-A-Bus promotion. The promotion involves Mix 106.5 broadcasting live from several Giant store locations, encouraging listeners to stop by and fill up several MTA buses with non-perishable food items. All of the food collected goes to the Maryland Food Bank. Last years promotion collected over 50,000 pounds of food over two days. The Stuff-A-Truck event is a similar promotion that takes place in our DC market and benefits the Capital Area food Bank. Our media partners for this promotion include WTTG Fox 5 TV, the Washington Post and WARW radio. Our DC media partners broadcast live from several Giant stores and encourage viewers and listeners to fill up food bank trucks with non-perishable items. We have received significant media recognition and exposure from this unique and fun charitable promotion!