Walmart向Feeding America拨款1500万美元：未来18个月助食物银行网络抢救5亿磅食物
Walmart（沃尔玛）向美国全国性饥饿救济网络 Feeding America 拨款1500万美元，用于加强食物的抢救、运输与分发体系；该公司9月30日在 Arkansas 州 Bentonville 总部宣布这项拨款时表示，Feeding America 预计这笔投入将帮助其网络在未来18个月内抢救5亿磅食物。据 Feeding America 估算，全美目前有近4800万人处于粮食不安全状态。
这笔拨款的大部分将直接拨给各地食物银行与基层机构，用于扩建零售食物抢救基础设施，帮助它们收集、储存和分发更多营养食物；其余部分将支持技术与工具升级，让 Feeding America 网络更高效地管理和调运食物。Walmart 门店与 Sam's Club 本身已是该网络的重要食物来源，仅2026财年就在全美捐出7.69亿磅食物，但把食物从门店送到家庭手中，还需要食物银行具备人力、设备、仓储、运输与技术条件——这正是此次拨款要补的环节。
Walmart 慈善事务高级副总裁 Julie Gehrki 表示：「食物银行和基层机构是各自社区的支柱，我们知道许多机构正被要求承担更多。这项投入就是要帮它们获得更多资源和工具，把食物送到最能发挥作用的地方。」Feeding America 首席执行官 Denis McDonough 表示：「在邻里们面对食物和其他必需品涨价的时刻，社区需要食物体系的每个环节协同运作。这项投入将加强把更多食物送到最需要之处所需的人力、基础设施和技术，同时帮助家庭获得 SNAP 等关键营养支持。」
Walmart 与 Feeding America 的合作已有20多年历史。除直接拨款外，Walmart 还通过「Fight Hunger. Spark Change.」活动带动顾客与供应商参与：该活动今年为 Feeding America 及各地食物银行筹得逾1800万美元、相当于逾1.8亿份餐食；自2014年启动以来，已累计帮助提供逾24亿份餐食。Feeding America 的网络包括250多家食物银行、20多个州级食物银行协会、10多个区域合作社以及6万多个基层合作机构、食物发放点与供餐项目，覆盖全美各地社区，南加州内陆地区的食物银行同在其网络之内。
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Walmart Grants $15 Million to Feeding America: Investment Expected to Help Network Rescue 500 Million Pounds of Food Over 18 Months
Walmart has granted $15 million to Feeding America, the nationwide hunger-relief network, to strengthen how food is rescued, moved and delivered through the charitable food system; announcing the grant on September 30 at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company said Feeding America expects the investment to help its network rescue 500 million pounds of food over the next 18 months. Feeding America estimates that nearly 48 million people across the country are experiencing food insecurity.
A significant portion of the funding will go directly to food banks and local agencies to expand retail food rescue infrastructure and help them collect, store and distribute more nutritious food. The grant will also support technology and tools to help manage and move food more efficiently across the Feeding America network. Walmart stores and Sam's Clubs are already a major source of food for the network, donating 769 million pounds of food in the United States in fiscal 2026 alone, but moving that food from stores to families requires food banks to have the people, equipment, storage, transportation and technology to handle it safely.
"Food banks and local agencies are pillars in their communities, and we know many are being asked to do more," said Julie Gehrki, senior vice president of philanthropy at Walmart. "This investment is about helping give them more of the resources and tools they need to get food where it can do the most good." Denis McDonough, CEO of Feeding America, said: "At a time when neighbors are facing higher costs for food and other essentials, communities need every part of the food system working together. This investment will strengthen the people, infrastructure and technology needed to move more of that food where it is needed the most, while helping families access critical nutrition support like SNAP."
The grant is the latest chapter in more than two decades of work between Walmart and Feeding America. Through its Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign, Walmart has also brought customers and suppliers into the effort: this year the campaign generated more than $18 million, the equivalent of more than 180 million meals, and since it began in 2014 it has helped secure more than 2.4 billion meals. Feeding America's network includes more than 250 food banks, more than 20 statewide food bank associations, more than 10 regional co-ops and more than 60,000 agency partners, food pantries and meal programs across the country.
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图片来源：图：宾夕法尼亚州中部食物银行仓库内成托盘堆放的待分发食物物资（资料图，美国农业部 USDA 食品与营养服务局2024年摄，公共领域）。Photo: Pallets of food awaiting distribution inside the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank warehouse (file photo, U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, 2024; public domain).
