Our Commitment
Part of being a good corporate citizen means supporting the communities where our team members and their families live and where we operate. In many of these places, Smithfield is the area’s largest employer, so we have a duty to ensure our communities thrive and prosper. Through targeted philanthropy and volunteerism, we help improve educational opportunities, advance the vitality of local communities and address food insecurity. View our helping communities video. helping communities video.
Our Approach
As a global food company, we are focused on responsibly providing essential protein to feed a growing world population. To fulfill our promise to produce “Good food. Responsibly.®,” we work to address food insecurity, provide educational opportunities and strengthen local communities by supporting nonprofit organizations and communities in need with financial and in-kind donations.
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Since 2008, our Helping Hungry Homes® hunger relief program has provided hundreds of millions of servings of protein in all 50 U.S. states, as well as in Poland, Romania and Mexico. In 2023, Smithfield donated 30.2 million servings of protein to food banks, disaster relief efforts and community outreach programs across the U.S. and has pledged to donate 200 million servings of protein by 2025.
We also invested in education, funding more than $2.5 million in programs in 2023. Our Smithfield Scholarship Program alone awarded scholarships of more than $740,000 to 13 schools in seven states for the 2023–2024 school year. The scholarships are need-based and awarded to eligible dependents of full-time and retired Smithfield team members. Our GCM Foundation again supported the communities around our operations in Mexico, helping with education, health and nutrition needs. In 2023, we completed 55 projects that served more than 44,000 people in 13 communities in two Mexican states. We also maintained our commitment to veterans – Helping Our Heroes – with a target of hiring 4,000 by the end of 2025. We've already hired more than 3,600 to date.
For more than 20 years, Smithfield has employed policies, processes and technologies to reduce our environmental footprint.
We believe the unique capabilities of each member of our team should be reflected at all levels of the organization.
Our culture, processes and systems are designed to support our team members’ well-being at work and at home.
