Spirit of America Award

United Way is proud to present this year’s United Way Spirit of America^® Award to Kellogg Company, its employees and retirees in honor of the innovative actions they continually take to improve lives and local communities. Highlights of Kellogg Company's impressive commitment to communities:

• Kellogg Company's $5.9 million campaign pledge in 2009 was 19% over goal
• Employees across the U.S. held more than 45 food drives that collected more than 47,000 pounds of food
• In 2009, Kellogg was the first to produce food solely for donation, donating an entire day's worth of cereal production (3.7 million pounds) to Feeding America
• Over the past five years, Kellogg has donated more than 94 million pounds of food, or 66 million meals
• Kellogg granted $600,000 to United Way of Greater Battle Creek to address increased basic health and income needs in the Company's headquarters hometown. Among other outcomes, this grant provided 20 pounds of fresh vegetables weekly to nearly 2,000 people
• Kellogg spearheaded a downtown revitalization effort in Battle Creek, MI, including the expansion of its global nutrition research facility, committing to move more employees downtown, donating a building for potential use as a math and science education center, and partnering to bring new businesses and jobs to the community
• Kellogg worked with Action for Healthy Kids to improve healthy eating and physical activity among children around the country,  including helping dozens of schools nationwide increase the number of kids eating a healthy breakfast at school
• Partnerships around the globe, including working with United Way of Mumbai, India to provide meals to underprivileged children, and as a founding partner of The Global FoodBanking Network

               General Mills                                Procter & Gamble                         Dominion Resources, Inc.                        Wells Fargo
       Corporate Philanthropy                  Community Investment                     Community Volunteerism              Community Volunteerism
       Community Investment                      Community Impact
           Community Impact                     Community Volunteerism

Read more about the 2010 Spirit of America and Summit Award winners in the press release.