Yum! Brands Recognizes ‘Volunteers For Hope’ Across The Globe
March 12 2015 - 3:15PM
Business Wire
Volunteer for Hope Program Awards Nearly
$500,000 USD in Grants to Qualifying Charitable Organizations
Worldwide Since 2012
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), one of the world’s largest
restaurant companies with more than 41,000 KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco
Bell restaurants in over 125 countries, announced today its
Volunteer for Hope program has awarded more than 160 grants
resulting in nearly $500,000 to charitable organizations around the
globe since its inception in 2012.
Yum! Brands, Inc., one of the world's
largest restaurant companies with more than 41,000 KFC, Pizza Hut
and Taco Bell restaurants in over 125 countries, announced today
its Volunteer for Hope program has awarded more than 160 grants
resulting in nearly $500,000 to charitable organizations around the
globe since its inception in 2012. (Photo: Business Wire)
Yum! Brands’ Volunteer for Hope program, now in its third year,
encourages the Company’s 1.5 million associates and franchisees to
give back to the communities where they live and work through
volunteerism. Since 2012, associates and franchisees from more than
20 countries have volunteered over 55,000 hours of community
service. Each year, the program awards the Company’s top volunteer
teams with monetary grants for their partner charities. In 2014,
Yum! awarded 140 grants and nearly $220,000 to charitable agencies.
Of the top six Huge Heart Champion Award winners, the leading team
won a $25,000 grant for their organization, three teams were
awarded $20,000 grants, an individual volunteer received a $10,000
grant and the final team won a $5,000 grant for their
charities.
“As a Company with a Huge Heart, we are extremely proud of our
associates and franchisees around the world who are making a
difference in their communities by volunteering their time and
talents to help those in need,” said Greg Creed, Chief Executive
Officer, Yum! Brands. “I’m honored to award grants to the
incredible charitable organizations our associates and franchisees
volunteered with and hope the money will make an impact in their
communities.”
This year’s winning Huge Heart Champion Award team, named
Cambiando Hambre Por Esparanza, is from the Company’s KFC and Pizza
Hut Honduras business. The team partnered with charity
organization, Vision Mundial, to fight hunger in Consonlaca,
Honduras. Through the team’s volunteerism, they feed hungry
children in the community and increased the rate of families
participating in local feeding and nutrition programs. The team
made a lasting impact by helping to reduce the number of children
suffering from malnutrition in the community.
The Volunteer for Hope program continues to build on Yum!
Brands’ legacy of supporting hunger relief initiatives. In 2007,
Yum! Brands created World Hunger Relief to raise awareness,
volunteerism and funds for the World Food Programme and other
hunger relief agencies. The Company’s World Hunger Relief effort
has become the world’s largest private sector hunger relief
initiative, spanning more than 125 countries, over 41,000 KFC,
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants and 1.5 million associates.
Since 2007, World Hunger Relief has resulted in more than $600
million in cash and food donations, providing 2.4 billion meals for
those in need for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief
organizations.
Yum! also addresses hunger in the U.S. through its Harvest
program. Since 1992, the Company’s Brands have contributed more
than 173 million pounds of product to over 3,000 nonprofit
organizations for those at risk of hunger in the U.S. Since its
launch over two decades ago, Harvest has become one of the largest
prepared-food donation programs in the world. Yum! is continuing to
expand Harvest globally in 2015.
For a full list of winning teams, their stories and more
information on Yum!’s hunger relief and volunteerism efforts, visit
www.volunteer4hope.com.
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over
41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum!
is ranked #216 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over $13
billion. In 2014 Yum! was named among the top 100 Corporate
Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine and one of the Aon
Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. The Company's
restaurant brands - KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global
leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories.
Outside the United States, the Yum! Brands system opens over five
new restaurants per day on average, making it a leader in
international retail development.
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