Food-Security Partners
With the help of our partners, we are able to get food into the hands of those in need. We are proud partners of organizations such as Convoy of Hope, the World Food Program, Food for the Poor, Cáritas Arquidiocesana, Feeding America and other community-based nonprofits that focus on disaster assistance and food security. Each year, these nonprofits help us distribute our products to people, promoting food security and building community resilience against disruptions in the food system.
We have made significant progress in introducing our unique food-secure community program in Austin, Minn., — home to our headquarters and flagship production facility. Through this program, we are investing time, talent and financial resources into conducting research, gathering stakeholder feedback and developing a project plan with our internal and external experts who are focused on ensuring food security in our Austin, Minn., community. View our 2023 milestones in our Global Impact Report.
Project SPAMMY®
The goal of Project SPAMMY® is to help children in Guatemala achieve and maintain nutritional balance and to provide them with opportunities for quality education and better lives.
Project SPAMMY® began in 2008 and is a Hormel Foods initiative to fight childhood malnutrition in Guatemala — a country with the world’s fourth-highest rate of chronic malnutrition.* To help combat malnutrition, Hormel Foods developed SPAMMY®, a shelf-stable product fortified with vitamins and minerals, and donates 2.5 million cans each year to families in need.
This vision and strategy were built on the premise that changing lives occurs only through building sustainable solutions. The project focuses on delivering proper nutrition and education through the expertise of our team members and partners. Together with the USDA, Food for The Poor and in-country partners Center for Study of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM), and Caritas, Hormel Foods innovated a highly nutritional product to enhance childhood growth and development.
*USAID, 9/30/2018
World Food Prize
Hormel Foods supports the mission of the World Food Prize and its annual conference — Borlaug Dialogue — by donating $25,000 over two years. For the first time, we are supporting the establishment of a World Food Prize Youth Institute within Austin Public Schools. The creation of the institute facilitates the incorporation of content related to country-level political, social and environmental climates into the Advanced Placement (AP) geography curriculum. Students are encouraged to write an essay on the global food insecurity challenge, submit it to the World Food Prize and participate in the foundation’s annual conference.