FROM PCC'S SOUND CONSUMER SEPT 2020
Throughout recent months, our region has faced enormous challenges. PCC Community Markets has been working behind the scenes to support our community in a number of ways. We team up with nonprofit partners to tackle some issues by providing grants and other direct financial support. At other times we lean into our relationships to find ways to meet community needs by bringing people together. And on any given day, each of our stores is donating hundreds of pounds of food to our community through our grocery rescue program.
This spring, we found an opportunity to bring together one of our suppliers with a longtime food bank partner. PCC shoppers are longtime fans of Moon Valley Organics, a Deming body care producer since 1998, which also produces PCC’s certified-organic private label soap. The soap is free from harmful chemicals, and especially valuable for those with chemical sensitivities.
When Moon Valley had a surplus of odd-sized soap bars, it seemed an ideal match for Chicken Soup Brigade, the food and nutrition program of Lifelong. As one of PCC’s Food Bank Program partners, we work with the organization to supply nutritious foods to help them serve their clients—all of which are living with chronic illness or are homebound. We were glad to facilitate the donation of more than 5,000 4-oz. bars of soap, which Chicken Soup Brigade distributed to its clients.