Liberty Hardware Donates $10,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina
Winston-Salem, N.C. – Liberty Hardware Manufacturing Corporation today announced a $10,000 donation to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, which will be used for the organization’s Triad Community Kitchen (TCK) program. The announcement and check presentation were made during the TCK’s “Mu Class” graduation ceremony this morning at the Food Bank.
“Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC is a fantastic agency, one that Liberty and its employees have long supported by volunteering time and through food drives,” said Jennifer Shoffner, Liberty Hardware Vice President Human Resources. “We especially appreciate the valuable work of the Triad Community Kitchen and are thrilled to be able to extend monetary support to advance the program in our communities.”
Students at The Triad Community Kitchen use donated and purchased food to create ready-to-heat meals for distribution to partner agencies of Second Harvest Food Bank that feed people at risk of hunger and others in need. Students are referred by program partners like Goodwill Industries of Northwest NC and receive culinary training at no charge to support their goal of sustainable, gainful employment.
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Triad Best Places to Work Contest
Liberty Hardware has been named finalist on the Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work” competition. Winners and finalists were determined based on responses from employee feedback surveys conducted anonymously online, with scores rated by Quantum Market Research, a firm that conducts such surveys nationwide.
Area business competed in three size categories – 50 or fewer workers, 51-250 and more that 250. Liberty Hardware has more than 330 employees in the Triad.
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